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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg

I was led to this by a Philadelphia "Click here for help with Open EPUB eBooks" link:

Opne eBooks cannot be returned early. Only DRM-protected eBooks have this option.

So they may work after a fashion. What happens to an Open EPUB book on the due date? Would I be reminded, on a Nook, to delete the title?

They can't be "returned early" because there is nothing to "return". It's not like Adobe where there's a server carefully monitoring who has what license GUID. They're non-DRM'd books. They don't have due dates. The only "due date" is on the FLP system saying that you have it, so as to keep a million people from checking out the book on the same day. But you delete them from your device when you're done -- it's on the honor system.

This is a pet peeve of mine: people who don't robustly use the online library systems in place (20 books? I have almost one hundred on my FLP Wish List! ) make sweeping statements about DRM being "necessary" for it to work, but they have never ever checked out an Open EPUB. Carina (Romance, Fantasy, Steampunk, SciFi, etc.) has zillions of titles. JA Konrath's books (Thriller) are Open EPUB. The O'Reilly technical manuals are, iirc, Open EPUB. They're all doing fine!

DRM is not even remotely necessary for libraries to function. It may be desirable, but that's a matter of opinion. (One I don't agree with.)