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Originally Posted by anamardoll
But you delete them from your device when you're done -- it's on the honor system. 
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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.) |
Libraries have been lending mp3 music and audiobooks in this way for quite a while.
So clearly the libraries are ok with no technological enforcement of due dates. However, the 'not even remotely necessary' becomes "absolutely necessarily" when you factor in that the publishers would not allow the books to be lent otherwise.