Hi Cara, Kindle borrowed books do have a time limit, as do overdrive books from the library. My husband once lent me a Kindle book, and I think the loan period was 2 weeks, but it may have been 7 days. And while it is true that bookshare books have no time limit, for many of those books, at least for me, the distinction between it and the library is moot, since I don't keep novels after I read them anyway. In point of fact, now that we can download books from BARD, they also have no time limit. So the analogy between such services and the public library is not perfect. But the point still is that such services enable us to read books without having to buy each one. The other thing to keep in mind is that with a physical book, a sighted person can lend that to friends, thus enabling many people to get the benefit of the one purchase, and I know people who do that too. For me, the bottom line is that there are plenty of ways sighted folks can and do get access to books without buying each one of them, and nobody's suggesting that they are somehow less than fair to authors by so doing.
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