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>I don't know how your libraries operate but here you can order books and the libraries pool their stock so it will be brought in from another branch . I've not being using them much until recently when I realised that unless they get used some smartass will decide they aren;t needed anymore and cut them. So now when I read a good review I try and order it from my local library.

Besides, libraries pay some sort of small royalties for each book that is lent out. At least that's the way it is in the UK and my native Scandinavia.