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I'm fine if you want to share my book with your friend or with a group of friends. However, library !== the entire world.

Moreover, libraries buy book(s) so they can share more copies if there is a demand.

Without authors getting paid for their work there won't be any books at all, except books from those authors who are willing to write them for free of charge. But I assume you don't like online libraries with free books online for some reason.

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In many places in the US, anyone can get a card to a library.

So, if everyone had that knowledge, it actually would mean the entire world.

In the county I have my card with, they give a card number over the internet without any kind of address validation, so anyone willing to lie about their address can get a card there. I'm sure that's true for countless counties.

> Without authors getting paid for their work there won't be any books at all, except books from those authors who are willing to write them for free of charge.

You mean except for authors who are willing to write them without charging each reader for a copy.

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