Print on Demand! for libraries?

For this assignment in the 23 Things, I decided to look into Print on Demand.
Since we get lots of demand for stuff we don't own, I thought this might be a direction some libraries may go. I was thinking that if the patron wants to pay the freight, we can bill them.

BUT, if we wanted to own the "new" book at the library, maybe the patron could pay $10 (the cost of an I.L.L.) and we'd eat the rest of the cost and do a fast, guerilla cataloging job on the new book. Slap an RFID tag on it, create a short catalog record and when the book is returned, finish the task.

The machines are really costly, however. But maybe we'd be a first adopter and get a coolio grant for one??

Check out Espresso Book Machine! $75,000 for the machine! Whew! It's a division of Ingram. Maybe they'd give us a deal if we order lots of books from them? Anyway, a POD machine could be in a college or university library and the pinhead students could pay for a book printed out of the machine. I'd LOVE to go see one of these things work.

Does this count as a 23 Thing?