If libraries did all their lending over the web, well, you wouldn't need a physical library at all.

如果图书馆全部采用网上借阅方式，那么，你将根本不需要一个实体图书馆。

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The business model differs from that of traditional video rental stores that typically let customers pick movies from an available physical library of titles.

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Quite: my own opinion is that, probably around the time of the death of my own generation which grew up only with physical books, the library and the bookshop will be as dead as those physical books.

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"The physical part went to the Library of Congress, which is important to them, but we don't need it anymore, " Mr. Fleming said.

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