mrstickball said:
Ahh, your catching on very quickly. The issue is that the libraries (at leas the ones I have ever been to) have NEVER rented out any playing mediums for any media....CD Players, VCRs, Casette Players, PCs....Why video game consoles? And even then, your looking at $50-$60 games vs. $20 DVDs and so on.
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I agree that it is a bit much to rent out equipment. Maybe if the equipment is relatively inexpensive or that it can't be taken out of the library (i.e. you have to give them a driver's license or a deposit before you can check it out), then I don't mind, but consoles are too much.
It just all comes down to cost. They can probably get a lot of those DVD's for $10-$20 (or less if they go to Wal-Mart!), and pretty much any book is going to cost that much. The downside is the DVD's can get scratched, but I guess people can fuck up books about as badly.
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