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Originally Posted by DrMoze
You do realize that this reasoning extends logically to conclude that US libraries are funded by LOCAL taxpayers, so if you don't have a LOCAL library card and aren't paying those taxes yourself, you shouldn't have borrowing privileges. Just as it's not OK for people outside the US to borrow from US libraries, it is also not OK for people outside a library's jurisdiction to borrow books, electronic or otherwise (unless they pay a proscribed fee).
People like me who use just our own local library are being cheated by people like you who check out certain books without having legitimate borrowing privileges. I've aready been on several wait lists for ebooks at the NYPL, and it looks like it will just get worse now.  I hope they institute an ISP geographic check for book borrowing in the near future. That would help. |
Sadly the geographic check would hurt a lot of New Yorkers who are traveling at the moment. I suppose they could flag accounts that were consistently borrowing books from outside NY especially if they were consistently borrowing from a single place outside NY. Then if you got flagged you would have to show up in person with your ID and your registered device.
An addition to your locality argument: There is a reason NYPL charged a substantial annual fee for non-residents. Books aren't free and to support the extra users they needed extra money.