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.
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.
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.
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.
