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by dublinben 825 days ago
Libby / Overdrive for ebooks are a racket. The publishers sell ‘disposable’ licenses that expire after something like only 20 uses or a few years, whichever comes first. Support your local library, but don’t support greedy publishers.
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Yeah, sad that libraries have embraced these DRM schemes instead of fighting for their rights to preserve our culture without the need for rightholder approval.
Don’t libraries negotiate the licensing? If I want digital copies what else can I do? Libby or Amazon which is worse?
> If I want digital copies what else can I do?

File sharing is clearly the most user friendly and therefore correct choice.