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Lending library books is based on the doctrine of first sale, and the idea that you can resell and lend physical objects.
Running a service is not the same as selling a standalone physical good.
To extend that analogy, this would be like an obligation of the author to make their manuscripts available.
A lot of things seem like common sense of you have an overly simplistic view of the world.