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When I lived in the city, I didn't use the library (this was before ebooks). But since moving to the burbs, I use it all the time. It is less than a block from the train station, and our town is so small, that if I request a book, I usually don't have to wait more than a week or two (if our library buys the book). Now, I still have to go to the library and pick the book up and return it (the "friction" the article mentions), but the friction has been reduced to such an extent with the ability to reserve books and ebooks, that I don't see the reason to buy them. I never reread them, and if I didn't keep a list of what I had read and check it before I check something out, I would keep rereading the same books.
Sorry publishers. I don't pirate songs, because I can easily buy them. You could have gotten on top of the library thing back in 2007, when the Kindle came out. But you have acted like recalcitrant children. You need a time out. And like most children, when you come out of the time out, you will not have gotten what you had the tantrum about.
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