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>This eBook is checked out. Would you like to join the waiting list?

>creating artifical scarcity with digital files, delaying and perhaps preventing people from reading books

What the fuck is this shit? Just let me read the fucking book damn it

>> No.6965053

>>6965051
That's what you get for being a cuckold who uses a gameboy to read books, you tremendous tool.

/thread

>> No.6965054

I didn't even know this was a real thing.

But, most likely, because they have a licensing restriction on the amount of people they can have viewing it at any given time. Which is absurd, but there you go.

>> No.6965066

>>6965053
Fuck off, it's more convenient and not at any of my local libraries

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>>6965066
>mfw you're trying to justify being a low-tier pleb

>> No.6965084

>>6965053
>/threading your own post

>> No.6965091 [DELETED] 

>>6965066
why is reducing the number of things i carry "being a low tier pleb"?

>> No.6965106

>>6965080
why is reducing the number of things i carry "being a low tier pleb"?

>> No.6965170

>delaying and perhaps preventing people from reading books
wow, a delay. not that big of a deal.

the real problem libraries face is the prices of ebooks. my library has been running a campaign around it
http://www.fairpricingforlibraries.org/
>In some cases, major multinational publishers charge libraries 3–5 times more for ebooks than they charge consumers.
>Tartt - The Goldfich
WHAT YOU PAY
$14.99
WHAT LIBRARIES PAY
$114.00

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>>6965080

>> No.6965504

>>6965170
Oh fuck off. Getting your enthusiasm for reading a book crushed by libraries being retarded is shitty. They're being jewish for absolutely no reason except apparently to make them feel like they got their money's worth. Copyrights are also horseshit. If the author dead, free the fucking book from this tyrannical garbage

>> No.6965677

>>6965178
>memegenerator

>> No.6965871

>>6965170
>a delay for reading a digital copy that can be reproduced infinitely and accessed infinitely
>not a big deal
its flat out fucking stupid and unnecessary.

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>this thread

>> No.6966521

do u nerds not know how to use irc its even in the sticky

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>>6965053
>That's what you get for being a cuckold who uses a gameboy to read books, you tremendous tool.

>> No.6966702

>>6965504
>Getting your enthusiasm for reading a book crushed
waiting a few weeks crushes your enthusiasm? you're an impatient retard.

>>6965871
you're an idiot