![]() ![]() Anyone who works in a library can tell you that people return items late to the library regularly. Also the library paid for this item for your enjoy. There is no way to keep it past the due date unless you never turn your device back on. If only I could read my Kindle books in the beautiful iBooks app. When you turn the wifi back on, if the item is past due it expires. But the Kindle app for the iPad sucks, and with an update this week it is almost unusable. If you’re like me, you turn your wifi back off to save the battery. You go to the library site, find a book, check it out, turn the wifi on on your Kindle and the item downloads. The library bought or licensed a book for their patrons to use. ![]() Now let me explain how checking out a library book works. Either deleting it when you’re done or keeping it forever. You then download that title to your device of choice and read it. This title was not purchased or licensed for distribution but rather by an individual for an individual. When pirating a title you usually visit a torrent site, search for a title that someone else stripped the DRM from and uploaded to the site. While I appreciate the attempt to arbitrarily vilify me by equating taking advantage of one of the perks of digital content with pirating I feel obligated to point out how pirating works (without passing judgement on the why or who people pirate content).
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