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Originally Posted by spindlegirl
But isn't this a good thing? Allowing the customer to choose? What I may return to the library in disgust may provide the next person ultimate joy, and THEY may ask for it for a birthday gift? So I don't wind up buying all of the 80 books I take out of the library every year. But to have discovered and fallen in love with even 2 of them is a good thing. They'd have someone talking about their book for a long time.
I have respect for institutions that allow me to be a conscious consumer. I cannot afford blind consumerism. One of my favorite authors Margaret Atwood has many books out there that I either love passionately or don't want to own at all. There is one of her paper books I have lost three times and re-bought it new, whereas others I was glad I had the library.
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i think you kinda nailed it. i'm sure corporate institutions hate informed consumers. they want nothing more than for you to blindly buy that $30 hardcover, they don't care if they're putting out a substandard product.
i think refusing to support the public library is the height of greedy, piggish behavior and i will make it my business to never buy a book from penguin. oh, i'll still read them
but they'll never see my money. i hope their books are "read for free" all the way into bankruptcy.