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Claire Holt

Is Borrowing Books a Form of Stealing?

September 14, 2013 by Claire Holt

  Books don’t come with the piracy warnings that appear at the start of movies, enforcing the message that they are to be bought not borrowed. Books are made to be shared, and despite the fact that bad borrowing etiquette can make people angry when books don’t get returned quickly enough, or they come back tattered and … Read more

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