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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
If they are checked out, even for an hour, an unlicensed copy is made and distributed to a user. When the loan ends, that copy is not deleted, therefore it is a book distribution, not lending a book out.
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I can tell you've never used IA's Open Library. Books you can only check out for an hour you can't download. You can only read them in the browser. For books with longer loans you can download them but once the loan period is active they can't be read because of DRM. Sure, a user could remove the DRM and make a copy but they could also pretty easily scan or photograph every page of a physical book from a physical library while the book is at home during the loan period.