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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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I personally draw a very strong distinction between buying and renting/borrowing. I normally buy a book or movie because I don't want to be time limited. That's why it cost more to buy than rent. I've never actually rented or borrowed an ebook, but I've rented a number of movies. It's the same principle. I usually will remove the DRM for movie that I bought, so I can back them up. I never remove the DRM on movies that I rent.
Of course, I also don't hold others to my personal set of morals. If they want to remove DRM from ebooks they borrow, that between them and their conscience. I would say that as long as someone only reads the book once and deletes it after they read it, I don't see that as a major moral failing. Not even worth confessing to your priest.
