They were getting away with something because it seemed kind of reasonable. They were effectively letting one person effectively remotely view a physical book t

They were getting away with something because it seemed kind of reasonable. They were effectively letting one person effectively remotely view a physical book they owned. But NEL threw all that out the window. And COVID was a pretty translucent fig leaf. It's not like there is any shortage of public domain works "for the children" out there even if copyright terms should be shorter.