I played the beta for a while a few months ago. I was also in the D3 beta. While PoE is pretty interesting (I like the look of it and the socket system was good- skill tree huge and cool too) it doesn't stand up to D3 for me. I'm a huge Diablo fan but liked Torchlight and Titan Quest a lot as well.

Indeed.

Libraries pay for the items they lend and are often lending a physical copy of a book. Digital copies and subscription services are incredibly overpriced and often come with restrictive DRM to limit piracy. I don't know if the two should be compared.