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How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The theory is simple: instead of buying a household item or a piece of clothing or some equipment you might use once or twice, you take it out and return it.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

That's fair, I'd agree the article does a terrible job of differentiating, and a company calling itself a library in it's name doesn't make it a library, just a rental service playing pretend for profit.