> In the Before Times, she would have acquired the book through interlibrary loan. With the pandemic shutting down universities, that was no longer an option. O

> In the Before Times, she would have acquired the book through interlibrary loan. With the pandemic shutting down universities, that was no longer an option. On the wilds of the open internet, Randall tracked down a first edition from a rare book seller for $500—a hefty expense for a side project with essentially no funding. But then one of the university’s librarians came through and located a digital copy in Michigan. I believe this was the amazing HathiTrust project. https://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library https://www.hathitrust.org/digital_library And the book is under-copyright and the HathiTrust ebook normally publicly accessible. It was provided either by their "Emergency Temporary Access Service", or some other decision to provide an emergency/fair-use copy, in ways the publishing industry doesn't like and would like to make very illegal. This is a pretty notable part of the story, too bad the article glossed it over.