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by lmm 2892 days ago
> Your public library and services like Overdrive are "NetFlix for text".

They're NetFlix for books and formal periodical publications, both of which are more movie-like: there are a relatively small number of publishers and publishing a full-length book is a substantial, multi-person project, as is publishing a magazine or newspaper. There's a huge wealth of text out there that has no chance of ever hitting any library or central seller/distributor of etexts.