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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Because that is what public libraries do, they lend books. And I pay tax dollars to support my local library system.
No one is talking about freebies here.
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Sorry, I don't agree with this answer. Your taxes pay for a LOT of things. It is not a direct "I pay taxes so every book I check out from the library is the same thing as if I bought it". It certainly is not.
It's more like "I'd rather get a book for 'free to me, subsidized by the tax payers whether or not they read books".
I see nothing "bad for society" at all in having a time window before libraries have access to new fiction books.