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My local library is like that. I've had to wait on checking out a PDF because all available copies were taken. Yay, future!

• knieveltech 15y ago
  Pleas please please tell me this is a joke? Set numbers of PDF checkouts? I don't know if I should weep or vomit.
  • tedunangst 15y ago
    Physical books impose a natural limit on the number of simultaneous checkouts. If a book is very popular, the library will buy more copies to accommodate demand. If a PDF is popular, the publisher expects the library to buy more copies. It's artificial scarcity, but this is hardly new. The number of books in a library was never limited by the cost of paper.
    • antihero 15y ago
      Artificial scarcity is possibly one of the most perverse things to come out capitalism.
      • stcredzero 15y ago
        The particular 1 bits he took were of unusually high quality.