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I'm interested in what triggered this... is this just distributing the ebooks that various textbook publishers are offering free access to for the semester? It

• cbhl 7y ago
  From the FAQs, it looks like normally the Internet Archive uses DRM to limit the number of borrowed copies to the number of physical copies they have. Instead, they are now temporarily allowing more digital copies of the book to be borrowed than physical copies exist. There still will be DRM, requiring you to "re-borrow" the book every 14 days, but under the temporary system you will get the book again right away (instead of having to go to the back of a line, and waiting for other people to get their 14-day turns). The collection is more than just textbooks; I saw at least one work of fiction. (Note that you might want such books for, say, an English class.)