Your meme has inspired me to renew my library card.

If you read the book really fast, you can read it multiple times, costing the publisher even more. If you read it enough times, you could even force the publisher into bankruptcy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Sunde#Kopimashin

Yup. Tbh, memory in general is theft. You should not be able to have the memory of the book you read unless you keep paying for it. Really should be introducing subscription models for memories of experiences, like reading. Otherwise it’s lobotomy for you.

Waow based

Best option is to just buy the book and not read it! That's the best option for the publishers.

You wouldn't download a car book

When you're a die-hard capitalist:

Somebody just got promoted at the ACS. ;p

First time I've ever seen anyone speaking out for publishers and against lending and borrowing. You're even ignoring how authors only get less than 10% of sales while publishers get 90% or so.