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Is it? Calibre with deDRM is a must for me. I love Overdrive but cannot imagine to stick to the forced regime of lending periods and random waiting times. I als

by 47282847 10mo ago

Is it? Calibre with deDRM is a must for me. I love Overdrive but cannot imagine to stick to the forced regime of lending periods and random waiting times. I also typically read multiple (sometimes dozens of) non-fiction books in parallel, plus one or two fiction. That just wouldn’t work at all with digital lending.

Marsymars 10mo ago
It's the only way that works with digital lending! If you want to always have something available to read you need to be steadily queuing up books, but then they come in at a semi-random time so you have to jump between books depending on lending periods / length / interest to get through everything you have checked out before they get returned.
ForHackernews 10mo ago
This is really sad. You're just pirating books. At least go use a pirate website and don't ruin libraries for the rest of us. We will no longer have public goods if the public abuses them.
- 47282847 10mo ago
  I honestly don’t see the harm about removing the lending period for my personal reading. It will only make me check out and read more books. Can you detail the harm I am causing? It’s like making photocopies of books for my own use, which is still legal.
  - ForHackernews 10mo ago
    The chain of causality is about one link long: If libraries become common vectors for privacy, the powers that be will end libraries. https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringement-books-lawsuit/ https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringe... Photocopying an entire book is, in fact, against the law in most cases: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-educational-permissions/library-photocopying/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-education... Selfish people like yourself are why we can't have nice things. Either pay for your books or pirate them outright from bittorrent.
    - 47282847 10mo ago
      1. I am not in the USA. 2. You’re pointing at the legal code that is about exceptions for library liability. 17 U.S.C. § 108 doesn’t say anything about me making a personal copy. I don’t yet understand your one-link argument about privacy and how it relates to this discussion. I read that you would prefer if I were to directly download a copy from a shadow library instead of lending it from my local library.
      - ForHackernews 10mo ago
        yes, yes I would prefer that you buy drugs from a drug dealer instead of stealing them from a hospital.
    - ForHackernews 10mo ago
      *piracy (but they also don't like privacy laws around libraries)

Marsymars 10mo ago

It's the only way that works with digital lending! If you want to always have something available to read you need to be steadily queuing up books, but then they come in at a semi-random time so you have to jump between books depending on lending periods / length / interest to get through everything you have checked out before they get returned.

ForHackernews 10mo ago

This is really sad. You're just pirating books. At least go use a pirate website and don't ruin libraries for the rest of us. We will no longer have public goods if the public abuses them.

47282847 10mo ago
I honestly don’t see the harm about removing the lending period for my personal reading. It will only make me check out and read more books. Can you detail the harm I am causing? It’s like making photocopies of books for my own use, which is still legal.
- ForHackernews 10mo ago
  The chain of causality is about one link long: If libraries become common vectors for privacy, the powers that be will end libraries. https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringement-books-lawsuit/ https://time.com/6266147/internet-archive-copyright-infringe... Photocopying an entire book is, in fact, against the law in most cases: https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-educational-permissions/library-photocopying/ https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-education... Selfish people like yourself are why we can't have nice things. Either pay for your books or pirate them outright from bittorrent.
  - 47282847 10mo ago
    1. I am not in the USA. 2. You’re pointing at the legal code that is about exceptions for library liability. 17 U.S.C. § 108 doesn’t say anything about me making a personal copy. I don’t yet understand your one-link argument about privacy and how it relates to this discussion. I read that you would prefer if I were to directly download a copy from a shadow library instead of lending it from my local library.
    - ForHackernews 10mo ago
      yes, yes I would prefer that you buy drugs from a drug dealer instead of stealing them from a hospital.
  - ForHackernews 10mo ago
    *piracy (but they also don't like privacy laws around libraries)