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Originally Posted by John F
That is a difference I don't care a about. I'm not going to read the book while it is on loan. Looks the same as a pbook loan to me.
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How is a pbook loan relevant? It's always bizarre to me how the ethos supports whatever is most useful to the user, i.e., ebooks are not the same as pbooks and are cheaper to produce and sell, so their price should be cheaper, but otoh, ebooks are the same as pbooks when it comes to ownership and lending.
And suppose the person you lend it to makes a copy and passes it on in turn? Or makes a copy and uploads it? Is that the same as a pbook loan?
Again, share, don't share, I don't care. But I wish people wouldn't jump through hoops to justify doing whatever they were going to do anyway. Own it.