>>24776410
i remember before i got a job, i was always going to the library and always on waiting lists for stuff
i was on a waiting list for Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly Hall for like 2 months
also, i was on a waiting list for The David Icke Guide To The Global Conspiracy for like 3 weeks
i think all the schizo homeless people reserve all those esoteric or occult related books
now i just buy a used copies of books online and get it shipped to me

Buy a copy and also pirate it
With the relatively small collection of books I've really enjoyed and have studied deeply, I usually buy more than one: a nice one for reading, and one that I keep notes in
Sometimes I buy additional copies to give away

I've had to wait over a year for holds before and then not been able to read them because I had other books to read when they finally arrived

Good man. I'm sure Mr. Borges will appreciate the royalities.

supporting your local library how? libraries are funded institutions, and you're RENTING books from them. do you mean your taxes? because that money is used to bomb palestinians. the few pennies peeled off for books is but a drop in that bucket.
by the way, use the lending library system, it'll media mail copies to your local library to rent.

>>24776410
where are you? i'm amazed that there are that many people in your community waiting to read borges

>lend out a book a million times, nobody cares
>"illegally" download one book, and everybody loses their fuckin minds
Make it make sense.
I like to purchase a physical copy anyways, and then dl the epub and read it on my phone when on the go, like the anon above.

>>24776506
What a psychotic comment

>>24776410
I used Libby occasionally but if its out of stock or there's a long line, I just pirate anyways

>>24776410
I rip all books I rent from overdrive/libby with calibre, so I can read them wherever and whenever I want.

>>24776959
That's retarded.

>>24776964
If those books were available on Anna's Archive, I'd agree, but they weren't, so I ripped them.

>>24776990
Okay, totally fair. Do what you gotta go.

My local library is where all the homeless hang out. Too dangerous to patronize.

>>24776583
It doesn't make sense. It's literally the same thing.
The rules also don't apply to billionaires training their large language models.

>>24777441
>The rules also don't apply to billionaires training their large language models.
Word. I'll say this the next time I encounter a smarmy anti-piracy cuck.

Imagine trying to shame people about text based IP in a digital world

>>24776410
then vote to increase library funding so there can be more copies in circulation. Or do you just endlessly aim to self-justify self-ownership until the anarcho capitalist day comes, everyone's head is up their private colon and nothing gets made?

>>24776410
Yes. Contrary to popular belief, libraries kinda suck ass to use

>>24778879
>vote to increase library funding
>they use it to buy more computers so retards can make shoes at nike.com