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Buy yourself a copy.
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For front-list and mid-list titles that usually possible. For back-list titles, that is an iffy proposition. For out-of-print titles, you're relying on your local used book dealer to be able to find a copy, at a reasonable price. I still have a problem with the used book store that was asking US$100 for a reader's copy ex-library book club edition of Luttwak's
Coup D'e Etat.
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Just as ebooks sold/licensed to individuals are at prices having nothing to do with the cost of manufacture....the same is with libraries. Libraries will stock the books according to their own logic and budget.
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As a general rule of thumb, public libraries want to have books that their local population will utilize. Having the local population complain about titles not being available, is the best way to ensure dissatisfied and frustrated librarians.
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None of that matters to an individual who can merely buy a book or read any of the others that are available at the time at the library.
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So if I want to find out what the technical specs of the Lockhead A-12 are, I should buy a copy of
Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1992, instead of looking for a copy in the local library? (I probably got the year that it first appeared in the annual, wrong.)