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Originally Posted by issybird
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.
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Seems like a strange post. You seem to come up with all these reasons that seems very unlikely to my situation/sphere.
What do you want posters to do, just say yes or no?
To me, a loan is when you give someone temporary use of something, and you give up the use of that thing while it is on loan. I'm not going to use the ebook while it is loaned. So I don't have a problem with me loaning a book.
I keep saying "I", "me", ... I'm trying to comment on me, and not other people.