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Originally Posted by Harmon
Yeah, but you are obliged to compensate him. And his view of whether that compensation is adequate has to be taken into account. A system devise by Benjamin Franklin might not be the right model for compensation today. Lending libraries worked when books were physical objects. I'm not so sure they are good models for today.
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Huh? Books are still very much physical objects. Us ebook readers are a very small minority. *Most* of the books available and checked out of Libraries are physical paper objects.
Are you (and the original author) saying that only those that can afford books should be allowed to read? Because if you are, that's a path I hope we never go down.