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Originally Posted by anamardoll
it's on the honor system. 
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If we have any people on the board with lots of money they don't know what to do with, they could put the book borrowing honor system to the test. Fund a study where someone picks a branch public library somewhere, and eliminate checkout. Just put up a sign saying that patrons are asked to bring back all books within three weeks. Then see in a couple of months how many books are left in that library, with the philanthropist funding replacement.
I of course think that the philanthropist is going to be out a boatload of money.
If you are going to call for Overdrive and libraries to embrace Open EPUB, consistency requires opposing the whole system of book checkout. Having to stand in line to check out paper books is certainly more of an inconvenience to me than Overdrive using DRM.