I read a blurb and thought the book sounded interesting. Okay…I have a snazzy Kindle Paperwhite, so let’s have a look. Kindle Edition is eight bucks. Well, I dunno about that; I read a little blurb, and I’ve never heard of the author before, so I don’t really want to cough up eight bucks only to find that I’m bored after two chapters. Wait–I know! I’ll log into the library system and borrow the ebook there! Login requires my library card number. Okay…out to get my wallet and dig through it for the stupid little keychain-sized card with my barcode on it. Found it! Enter barcode…now what’s my password? I have no idea. Email forgotten password, which was sent in plain text. Yippee. Okay, so I’m logged in, and let’s search for the book. Found it! Oh, wait…those are dead tree books. Change to the digital database and search again (thank Christ for copy and paste). Yay! It’s there, and Kindle format is one of the options. All right, now how do I borrow this thing? Big button to “check availability”, but it wants me to select my library…which is not on the list. Dig the stupid card back out and see what other libraries it’s valid for. Nope, none of them on the list, either. Scroll-scroll-scroll…hmmm…here’s an entry for my geographical region. I’ll try that! Nope, my number isn’t recognised. Possibly because I think my card may be expired. There’s no charge for the card, so I don’t know why there’s an expiry date, but it says it’s expired even though it did let me log in. No option to renew online, even though my information is all exactly the same. Well, fuck. By this time, I’ve spent 20-25 minutes trying to get the goddamned book, I’ve jumped through a bunch of hoops, and I still don’t have it. Time it took me to acquire the book in four different formats by…errrr…”alternate means”: 2 minutes. Literally 2 minutes, and another 30 seconds to fire up Calibre and dump it into my collection. No fucking wonder people do what they do.