Sounds like you’ve read the September issue of Library Journal. 🙂 My fellow college librarians have been having discussions that start with “What the heck is Macmillan thinking?” Their position on ebooks may be ther best news for their competitors, and the worst for their investors.

Good point about the deadline-based urgency of reading borrowed books. I had never thought of it, that way. As someone else with bookcases full of purchased tomes that I plan to get around to, eventually, the ones I take home from work are the ones that get read.