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If the library owned an effectively infinite copies of each book why wouldn’t they let you borrow one copy of each book?

• gfedtbyby 3y ago
  Because authors and publishers wouldn't be very excited about that and would lobby governments to limit that (and I 100% believe they would be right to do that).
• chongli 3y ago
  The online library known as archive.org tried exactly this. They got sued, to no one’s surprise.