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Originally Posted by HarryT
But there is a fundamental different here between the paper and the eBook. When you "loan" your son the paper book, he has the only copy of it. You can no longer read it. In order to "loan" your son the eBook, you'd have to make a copy, so there would then be TWO copies in existence - the one that you have, and the one that your son has. You've copied the book, and broken copyright law. THAT is why you're not allowed to do it. If you want to loan your son your reading device, with the book on it, that's absolutely fine.
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Not necessary, if the loan system was done right.
e.g.
If I loaned a book out it could spawn a copy of itself that would only be useable for 2 weeks (for example), at the same it could lock the 'original' copy so it won't open for the same period.( obviouls only 1 spawned copy would be allowed at one time)
In a way this would be better as the loaned book, would automatically get returned after a preset period