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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
I consider breaking DRM for sharing or keeping to be unethical and immoral, but time-shifting doesn't bother me. The way libraries are set up, with wait times in months, seems to encourage such behavior. Again, we are not keeping anything or sharing it with others.
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While I understand the frustration in regard to having a bunch of books become available all at once, it seems to me that once you allow for "time-shifting" that you start encouraging what I'll call "front-loading," adding anything and everything to your holds list without regard to when you'll actually have time to read them. This would tend to made waitlists longer for those not so quick off the mark. I think there's less of an argument for time-shifting now that you can manage your holds list; if all of a sudden you're next in line for several books you can suspend some holds. It doesn't mean you can't be blindsided as others suspend holds making your turn sooner than expected, but it helps.