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> For example, imagine if you didn’t have to pay full price for works, but instead, just for the cost of printing or downloading. You’d get to enjoy more of the
by goto11 5y ago
> For example, imagine if you didn’t have to pay full price for works, but instead, just for the cost of printing or downloading. You’d get to enjoy more of them than you would otherwise.
I doubt that. The limiting factor for my reading is not money, it is time and other stuff I like to do. I suspect it is like that for most people. Reading is very cheap compared to other forms of entertainment.
- zozbot234 5y agoIt's very different when you want to quickly reference a dozen books in any given field, as opposed to just "reading" any one of them cover to cover. That's where copyright restrictions start to become very painful. Yes, libraries exist to make this kind of scholarship easier but not without restrictions of their own.