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Originally Posted by Catlady
Just the other day, I borrowed a book (The Two, by Irving and Amy Wallace) I'd had on hold from the Free Library of Philadelphia. I had the choice of Adobe epub, Adobe pdf, open epub, and open pdf. First time I've had a choice of download options, so I chose open epub, but I have no idea what that means in terms of the book expiring or not, since I've never before borrowed an open epub book.
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I borrowed a few epubs recently from the Ottawa Public Library. They were open epubs.
It looks to be an honor system - you are supposed to delete the files after the loan period. I just checked, the files were still on my hard drive, and readable by Okular. I have deleted them.
They don't show up in "borrowed" in ADE, which is how I access library ebooks.
One side effect I did notice is that I could not return the books before the end of the borrowing period. Since the Ottawa library has a 10-item limit, that limited what I could borrow for 21 days, and prevented their being available to anyone else. I will be careful in future about borrowing open epubs unless I am quite sure that I want to hold the book for a long period.