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Originally Posted by PKFFW
So again, for all your talk about the Utopian Internet 2.0 and everything being free, you still come back to the fact that you want to read something and couldn't care less about the author of that work.
I don't know of any library waiting list for any book that is a century long. Do you?
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What I meant was that why are we content with a system that gives us the capability to read whatever we wish while not having mechanisms in place to reward those who have written what we read?
Eventually funds for printed books will run out, and then quasi funds for ebooks will run out as well. What is the library to do then? Tell you to pay more for more books... In other words, most likely raised taxes.
Underutilizing a technology could be considered immoral.