From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-29 06:27, rbowman wrote:   
   > On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:35:23 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2025-12-28 20:38, rbowman wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:23:25 +0100, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> But if I go to the "Casa del Libro" place and choose some books, I can   
   >>>> not go to the counter and have them downloaded or added to my account.   
   >>>> That's my complaint.   
   >>>   
   >>> That applies to music too. For a while a traditional CD store would   
   >>> download a digital album and burn it to a CD for you but it wasn't   
   >>> sustainable. There were several used bookstores in town and there is   
   >>> one left. It's the same problem. What's a used digital book?   
   >>   
   >> I don't know if a digital book is transferable (with DRM). Something   
   >> similar to what libraries do.   
   >   
   > I get digital books from the library in two ways. Most current titles go   
   > through Amazon and are delivered to my Kindle. When I am through reading   
   > it I go to the Amazon site and 'return' the book. There's also an   
   > expiration date but while I 'have' the book it can't be lent to someone   
   > else. It's the same model as hardcopy books.   
   >   
   > The other was is a 'libby' app on my tablet.   
   >   
   > https://sfpl.libanswers.com/faq/129917   
   >   
   > I don't know why some books use one or the other.  I did notice something   
   > skimming the SFPL description. Amazon, and now I think libby, keeps a list   
   > of what I have checked out. Several years back the library structured the   
   > process for physical books so they only had a record of who had the book   
   > when it was checked out. They did not keep any record of who had checked   
   > out a particular book. When the Feds showed up and asked who had ever   
   > checked out 'Bomb Making Simplified' they could answer 'We don't know'   
      
   Heh.   
      
   But I was wondering whether a person can legally transfer, temporarily   
   or permanently, an ebook he purchased to another person. Same as we do   
   with paper.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
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