I think we need to know the average number of lendings for hardback vs ebook over a 2 year period. In theory, the library should be indifferent to the format being lent out and the costs should reflect that.

Borrow the hardback

The digital titles often come with a price tag that’s far higher than what consumers pay. While one hardcover copy of Cook’s latest novel costs the library $18, it costs $55 to lease a digital copy – a price that can’t be haggled with publishers.

And for that, the e-book expires after a limited time, usually after one or two years, or after 26 check outs, whichever comes first. While e-books purchased by consumers can last into perpetuity, libraries need to renew their leased e-material.

https://www.staradvertiser.com/2024/03/12/hawaii-news/libraries-battle-publishers-over-e-book-prices/

Totally agree with paying for recently written books. But are you cool with paying authors who have been dead for 69 years?

tits akimbo

They have to be pretty big and saggy to do this.

It does sound like a mildly amusing female comedy troupe though.

What’s your opinion on the Terry Crews style pec muscle jiggle?

No. They are banking the interest.

Fuck yeah!

You are not thinking cumulatively.

It’s not even close to triple, it’s like 15%.

1.15^7=2.66

From the article

“emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.”

Waterwheels. Thousands of years old but still an essential part of our energy system.

Racism justifies harassment and home invasion?

You realize internet sealions don’t actually invade homes?

You realise the harassment stops if you don’t respond?

Most of the early history of its usage is associated with non-whites and lower class peoples.

FOR THE BETTER PART of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

Yes. A professional is much better than ransom lemmy advice.

Your therapist should help you realise that the worse case scenario (rejection) has already happened to you many times in other forms, and you survived.

Watermelon

After 30 you should both be able to handle rejection and reject in a nice way. Just make sure you are both sober and sprinkle lots of compliments.

Pee on who?

Is hot ‘Faye’ Reagan

Alphabet is 10 different companies. Google is one of them.

don’t have context as to whether he’s referring to palestine or not

In 1990, during an interview with The Independent, Dahl explained that his issue with Israel began when they invaded Lebanon in 1982. “they killed 22,000 civilians when they bombed Beirut. It was very much hushed up in the newspapers because they are primarily Jewish-owned. I’m certainly anti-Israeli and I’ve become antisemitic in as much as that you get a Jewish person in another country like England strongly supporting Zionism. I think they should see both sides. It’s the same old thing: we all know about Jews and the rest of it. There aren’t any non-Jewish publishers anywhere, they control the media—jolly clever thing to do—that’s why the president of the United States has to sell all this stuff to Israel.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

A generation of privacy savvy citizens doesn’t sound bad.

I thought everyone was a dog until proven otherwise.