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I'm talking about giving 200.000$ all at once! And also giving the list of the thousand people who will read some of the books. It's something like we all get unlimited lifetime access to all those books. Nobody other than us will ever have that same access, and we won't "steal" access to other books of yours. There are two closed lists: a list of people, and a list of books. And it costs a lot less than a large room with 1.000 copies of the keys... ![]() |
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Anyone who has studied ethics knows that one of its basic tenets is that there is not [necessarily] any relationship between what is moral and what is legal. Moral refers to right and wrong, good and evil. Laws are meant to control behaviors within societies. This control of behavior is necessary [in the view of governments] to maintain an orderly society [within their definition of an "orderly society"]. From a moral philosophical perspective, many laws can be strongly argued to be immoral/evil.
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University libraries in the UK don't generally let you "borrow" books - they are solely for reading in the library itself.
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OK, then.
Will you point me to a digital library where I can get thousands of e-books still in copyright for the price of about 20? Honestly, I don't know such a place. ![]() |
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Anyone can join the NY Public Library for a fee of I think about $100 a year. They have a huge range of eBooks.
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Libraries that I've visited only let a person check out 2-5 books at one time (depends on the library, of course).
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Clevenet lets you checkout 20, and you can manage your checkout time to as little as 7 days.
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