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Originally Posted by bfisher
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.
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Thank you for that. So I presume these open epubs were past the return/expire date?