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Originally Posted by Ithekro
For books there are things know as Libraries for that sort of thing. I seem to recall that finding anime in a public library in the United States (of the kind typically being discussed around here) to be fairly rare.
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Well, sure, but nowadays, in the United States, you have Crunchyroll, Viz, The Anime Network, Funimation, Hulu, and official streams on Youtube. So
nowdays, the library argument is pretty much gone. Probably a different story 5-10 years ago. (Besides, the library metaphor is a big broken in the sense that when one person borrowed a book, someone else couldn't have it. So it's really a model based on physical objects. The library had to buy those books, and often at inflated prices, in order to have the right to lend them out.)