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Originally Posted by neilmarr
Thanks, Dawn. I wasn't holding my breath. UK lending libraries are still largely supported by local authority rates (habitation tax), I think, so I guess it would be unfair to extend the all-but free service to non-residents of a borough or region ... unless there was a foreign guest membership fee, of course. Wonder if any cash-strapped library has considered that possibility of extra revenue. Cheers. Neil
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Interestingly, only the other day I was reading a news item saying that there is a project currently underway in the UK to "link up" all the different libraries, so that anyone will be able to borrow books from any library, and the usual requirement that you live or work in a place in order to borrow books from the library there will be removed. Hopefully this will apply to eBooks, too!