I haven't used a library in 15 years that couldn't send you a book, as long as you were a member/library card carrier.
Your differences are largely superficial and orthogonal to the discussion, but I suspect you and I are not going to be able to agree on this point.
About as superficial as the difference between Amazon.com and Smith Family Book Store ( http://www.smithfamilybookstore.com/welcome.html ).
The possibility for a web site to scale up outstrips the wildest dreams of pretty much any librarian who traffics in physical books.
I don't get why people don't see this.
I haven't used a library in 15 years that couldn't send you a book, as long as you were a member/library card carrier.
Your differences are largely superficial and orthogonal to the discussion, but I suspect you and I are not going to be able to agree on this point.