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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

True, but that doesn't change the fact that specific books can be hard to find. Libraries are great, but they don't solve the problem IA solves.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    We got a nationwide network of specific books. You can order books to your local library if you are a little patient. They might not have a lot of selfpublished books but that is a problem of scale and negotiating power of publishers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That's pretty sweet! I grew up in an area with a county system, so you could get books from anywhere in the system (a dozen or so citires serving >1M people).

    My current library is just our city, but I can go to a few other cities to check out books, but I can't use holds there unless I pay $2-3/item to have it delivered to my library. We have a statewide ebook/audiobook network (serves 3-4M people), so that's nice.

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