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by poulson 4470 days ago
Is there any legal protection for users' reading lists in libraries? Because it would be wonderful if someone could set up a legal online library which would extend such protections onto the internet.
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You bring a point I hadn't thought of yet: aside from illegal downloading, you can't buy an ebook anonymously.
See also Julie Cohen's 1996 paper on this problem:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=17990