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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Means testing doesn't have to be complicated. Exempt patrons over a certain age; and for the rest, have them produce a food stamp card.
Again, this begs key questions: - who pays for their transportation to a library?
- who pays for their ereader?
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Your first criteria is arbitrary; your second inadequate.
Just because someone is old doesn't mean they don't have the means to support the library as a "Library Patron". Just because someone is too poor to pay to rent books doesn't mean they automatically have a food stamp card.
I agree with a previous poster that exemptions are onerous and not cost-effective. An opt-in pay program would be much more manageable in my opinion.
Let us also please not forget that (a) a patron does not have to travel to the library to check out an eBook, and (b) a patron does not have to have an eReader to read an eBook.
