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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Oh please, not again. By whose definition?
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The dictionaries.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censoring
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censor verb
censored; censoring\ ˈsen(t)-sə-riŋ
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Definition of censor (Entry 2 of 2)
transitive verb
: to examine in order to suppress (see suppress sense 2) or delete anything considered objectionable censor the news also : to suppress or delete as objectionable
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The library has removed (deleted if you will) all future ebooks from their shelves.
"Ah but the physical book is still available" I hear you cry. Which is immaterial. A TV network for example can censor words from movies, the word remains uncensored in the original source but is still censored in the version aired on the TV station.
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
You are jumping to conclusions. If the library still buys ebooks, then they are only allowed to buy ONE copy for a time. In a sufficiently large library, or even in a very small library that depends on a consortium, limiting to one copy is doing nothing to make their patrons happy. It is more like a tease. If the library decides to buy one copy, they are sending their patrons the message that this book is a good one to read, and please go buy the book instead. The exact opposite of the library spirit to make availlable books equally to everybody regardless of their income or ability to purchase.
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Or they're sending the message it's not popular enough to warrant them getting additional copies which is more likely given that's how every other sales industry works, demand determines stock considerations. And yes I'm purposfully not using your term of "good" since popularity does not necessarily equate to good.
It's also laughable that you want to argue that
not providing a format which is far and away more accessible than the physical edition for a storied list of reasons, is somehow in that spirit of providing books to the public regardless of income or ability to purchase.
Again I will use this very thread, full of people saying they will wait and wait and wait for a book as evidence that having a single copy is still better than zero copies. It may be a tease, but at least with the single copy you will eventually get it, for free, and without having to take a trip and hope the physical edition is currently available.