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I don't see any information about how many books were actually "borrowed". Somehow I have the feeling it might be fewer than sitting in the shelves of all the p

I don't see any information about how many books were actually "borrowed". Somehow I have the feeling it might be fewer than sitting in the shelves of all the physical libraries. Has this emergency library been popular? I read about it on HN, not anywhere else. The world is not full of HN readers. I'm considering writing to those publishers that I will stop buying books published by them and borrow them from a (physical) library instead, copying pages I want to keep. Be the letter of the law whatever it is, this was a exceptional situation and it was not done for personal benefit.

Nemo_bis 6y ago
It's in https://blog.archive.org/2020/04/07/the-national-emergency-library-who-needs-it-who-reads-it-lessons-from-the-first-two-weeks/ https://blog.archive.org/2020/04/07/the-national-emergency-l... > Trying to compare a physical check-out of a book with a digital check-out is difficult. Assuming that the number of physical books borrowed from a library corresponds to digitally borrowed books that are read after the first day, then the Internet Archive currently lends about as many as a US library that serves a population of about 30,000. Of course you won't find any real information in the publishers' complaint. It's all rhetoric and no substance, except where they claim everything and its opposite.