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Originally Posted by jersysman
I do not agree with the gist of he suggestion that says easily being able to borrow a book from a library would hurt the funding stream of authors, et. al. I mean it was what was being done before ebooks came along and authors seemed to be able to eat and keep a roof over their head. People bought books then and people will still buy books now. One thing a library has always done for me is to alert me and let me sample books from authors that I was not familiar with. That, I believe, is a good thing for authors. The more people that become aware of them, the better. Libraries and the ability to borrow from libraries is not the enemy here.
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This makes sense to me.
I have bought books when I discovered series or authors I enjoyed via library books. Typically, the library will have only part of a series, or only a few books by an author, and I have gone looking for the others via paid sources.