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Originally Posted by HarryT
Can you explain how you think a library system could lend books without DRM? You refer to it as "the publishers' insistence on DRM", but how else could a library system work?
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady
There are DRM free library books now thru Overdrive. When you do a search at my libraries they are referred to as Open epub and Open pdf. You can't return them early and it's on the honor system for you to remove them from your device.
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Libraries lend print books on an honor system and the system, for the most part, works. With open epubs, you can't read the file after the lending period, so if there are some less than honest patrons, they'll have to go through some hoops if they want to continue reading the file.
This again, is about the publishers not public libraries. Public libraries have not made the current e-book lending scheme with its licenses or its DRM.