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All,
Ummmm, wow. I love having a library that weighs the same as a small hardbound. I also love that it's a LIBRARY. The moral arguments are quite interesting about piracy, free downloads of books already owned, and even browsing Barnes and Nobles in the confy chairs. I thank you all for sharing your philosophical insight into a hot-button topic.
But what about libraries? I have had a library card since I could ride a bike. My family goes to the library more often than we go to the grocery store (NOT an exaggeration - my wife is a librarian!). So far, I can't check out books to my reader. So where does that leave us in this moral dilemma now?
Would I search for other copies if I could check out a copy to my reader that would be deleted in three weeks unless I checked it out again? I can use a limited web-based ebook system in current use, but it is logon-dependent and I must be at a PC and online to read it, which defeats the purpose of the reader in the first place.
Morally? I haven't lost sleep over anything non-family related. I'd prefer to "do the right thing," but in the face of overlapping contradictions I tend to take the path of least resistance.
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