Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

It's long since passed when libraries were known as a repository for books.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
Someone had stolen a book.

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,