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Online library launches for book lovers

The website allows users to list up to 10 paperback books that they wish to share. In turn they are allowed to request books from other members. After five weeks the books are made available again, with the current holder expected to respond to a loan request. Readers pay an annual fee of £8.95.
The website’s founder, Peter Baillie, told today’s Guardian that the plan was to encourage a community spirit, persuading people to share books that would otherwise gather dust. "Most books I read once, but not again, and I’m sure there are thousands of people in exactly the same situation."
Baillie denied that the scheme would hit book sales. "In my view it will encourage people to keep buying books. The success of this depends on fresh titles coming all the time. I want people to keep adding them." The Guardian reports that some librarians have pointed out the site is offering what is available from them for nothing.
Not everything in the world of the high-tech library is so different from its high street counterparts: users are currently only allowed to pay their membership fees by cheque as the online payment method has not yet been built.

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