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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I don't personally like the idea of Lender Readers (at least as a replacement, as opposed to a supplement) because they're essentially worthless to people who HAVE readers. I didn't buy a reader so I could drive down to the library and borrow theirs. And god help the patron who breaks the reader by accident... phew.
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As to people with ereaders being at a disadvantage, how so? They're free to borrow one of the preloaded ereaders like everyone else.
There's no guarantee that libraries have to provide ebooks for download anymore than they have to provide ebooks in both EPUB and Kindle formats.
Nor is there a guarantee that they have to provide ebooks from popular authors. Times being what they are, I'd rather a library buy 10 ebooks from lesser/unknown authors, than 2 ebooks from well known authors.