nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 nobody *really* believes that people should have open access to books for free unless they’re very poor and don’t mind the inconvenience of waiting in a bread line they imagined out of whole cloth and paid to create.
nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 Overdrive was haunted from the very beginning by the idea that library lending must be necessarily made awkward and inconvenient so that it doesn’t interfere with _actual book sales_. The whole thing is burdened with an unnecessary “check out the book and return it” metaphor that’s actively ridiculous for digital files.
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nostr:npub19p5p8m0m9ygmswn38f57f7lnrz0fpkv8x9t47r4hkqhh5thud6uqdww0v0 so, sure, we need to replace the awkward library DRM with a publicly funded awkward library DRM, so that libraries can continue with their important work of dribbling out little crumbs of information for free to the poors, but not too many or too fast because that would hurt authors and publishers and we can’t have that