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Originally Posted by Fbone
A person doesn't need to read them just borrow them.
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That's a good point.
I myself only finish maybe 60 percent of the books I start, although the percentage seems to go up as I age, and I think it is higher with eBooks.
There might be some who read very large numbers of quite short books. While short books are cheaper, they tend to be much more expensive, per word, than long ones.
Others might borrow a lot more books than they could ever even get to by the due date, perhaps in a triumph of hope over experience.
My guess is that any net profitability must be marginal -- otherwise more libraries would do it. But it's all speculation.