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You can also return the book instantly if you're not actively reading it, sometimes i check them out, flick through them, and return them, then check em out aga
by PostOnce 7y ago
You can also return the book instantly if you're not actively reading it, sometimes i check them out, flick through them, and return them, then check em out again later when I want to read more, instead of hanging on to them for 2 weeks
Just something I was thinking about earlier now that archive.org is getting popular.
- jmiskovic 7y agoOff topic, but I feel that analog library terminology really doesn't carry over well to digital libraries. Most likely because artificial scarcity is so unnatural concept. I wonder how digital libraries will look like and operate in 10 years.
- Kye 7y agoOne upside to the covid-19 outbreak is it's introducing a lot of people to the precarious nature of life in countries with a weak social safety net. Copyright is already a compromise between the needs for survival under a capitalist system and the need for the products of culture to return to ownership by the people after a time. Someone out there is spending their extra home time working on a new compromise. I don't think it'll involve the death of capitalism in our lifetime, but I do think it'll involve a wider awareness of the difference between a market problem and a collective action problem.