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I would have to say late 1800 early 1900 pornography ;)

I will just copy paste my answer:

Books that are being published are not made immediately available. Musicians get their music on the radio. Movies are rent-able and watchable on TV. Why should not the same be for books. It is just another medium.

If someone really wants the book he can still buy it.

It is hard to say per book. The current speed of the facilities is about a couple of thousand books a week.

The process of digitizing a book is that it has to be scanned then the scans have to be compressed into different file types for different purposes. Then it has to be OCR'ed. The ocr has to be sometimes edited by people, and on the top of everything you have to add the bureaucracy.

Also, I want to mention the the library does not need to "buy" the books ;) Since it is decided by legislation that every published book should be submitted to the national library in at least three copies ;)

This is my access card and my passport.

http://imgur.com/kyG3LKZ

is that ok ?