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Old 04-05-2014, 09:04 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Purple Lady View Post
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.
My library has almost 19k DRM epubs and 416 Open epubs. They're just not that common. My friend's library has 72k DRM epubs and 2k Open epubs. The open epubs seems to be all romance books, vampire books and out of copyright classics.

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Originally Posted by faithbw View Post
Libraries lend print books on an honor system and the system, for the most part, works.
My library doesn't lend print books on an honor system. You agree to return the book by a certain date and if you don't you start getting charged a fee that rapidly exceeds the price of the book. And if you have outstanding books on your account you can't take out any more. I suppose you could theoretically steal a bunch of books from the library in one go, but after that they won't let you take out any more books.
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