@yassie_j yassie was a librarian?

I will join the cult immediatly!
Also... Thank you really really much yassie for this post. I knew most of this but did not know that the situation in the UK is that fucking dire when it comes to lending E-Books.
In Germany we have Onleihe, which is actually quite nice. Lots of devices have an app for it (my pocketbook comes with it pre-installed) and lots of libraries do their lending over it.
I mean there is still the unfortunate need for an adobe account (DRM grrr). But yeah I get why they need that. Gotta appease those corpo overlords.
We also have that lending limit based on the either the physical books a library posesses of anything or how many digital licenses they have. I dunno how these contracts are in detail but likely more than favorable to publishers.
You what I really about big publishers. How they really to hide behind the artists when it comes to regulation but also treat them not well after all. I am generalizing a lot I know. They are great publishers out there doing their best to be fair. But big ones with big successful names?/Yeah I dunno.
I love books and I love to own them. So I don't use libraries often. But they so valuable to society and culture!
I do buy most of my E-Books either DRM-free (thanks german publishers!) or on kobo and crack them open.