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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Yet if the book is loaned out and taken out of the library, there's no way to actually enforce this...
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Historically photocopying or photographing an entire book was more expensive than buying a copy. You could only photocopy a few pages in the library and otherwise copiers were corporate items before the 1970s. I spent a lot of my pocket money in the Belfast Central Library in the 1960s on photocopies. They had the popular reference books shelved beside the copier
Now it costs only time to photograph an entire book and Google won a court case on the basis that they would never share the copy. Hmm.