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Old 09-21-2017, 12:00 PM   #29
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I guess, though, I'd be happy with lending out an ereader with my books on it. (Morally, at least; I'm not sure I'd actually want to do it.)
You can borrow my ereader when you pry it out of my cold dead fingers?

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I might be willing to break the DRM on a library book if I wasn't going to finish it in time, but I can't help thinking that's a slippery slope. Would I really then want to delete it when I do finish it? In practice I tend to just put the extra effort in to get it finished on time.
A very slippery slope which is why I came to the decision that I would not remove DRM from library books. On occasion, I've upped the load time from my default 7 days but if I can't finish a book in 21 days, I'm never going to finish it. If I broke the DRM, it would be too easy just to keep the book -- what if I want to read it again? It really doesn't cost the library anything? Whatever other justifications come to mind.

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I can't see that it's ever morally OK to give someone a duplicate.
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