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Originally Posted by MumblingFumbler
I think any strategy that 'raises red flags' based on book turnover is going be a very tough one to implement, for some of the following reasons:
1) I like to browse. I check out a book, it stinks, and I return it right away.
2) I'm doing research, and I just need access to a passage in a book. I
read/quote/cite the passage, and return the book right away.
3) I'm fixing my toilet (or pruning my fruit tree, or cooking a recipe, or whatever). I have no intention of reading the whole book. I just get the information I need, and return the book right away.
There are many other cases like this. Its going to be very difficult to separate these cases from those where the reader is up to no good.
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But they don't have to be up to no good. If Amazon determines that certain behavior is not making them money (or even costing them money) they are likely to pull the plug on that user. When they cancel the ability to return books, they don't accuse the person of reading and returning. They simple cancel the ability.
So if someone actually reads one or two pages of 160 books, they may determine they will 'refuse' the service.