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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. |
I hope they don't institute a geographic check, nor could they legally, since library access is allowed for folks like me - I don't live in New York but I do own property and pay taxes there.