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		vendiddy on Nov 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Z-library founders arrested in Argentina I wish libraries would go digital and rent out ebooks to people. They could pay authors based on reads.

Mezzie on Nov 18, 2022 | [–]

They want to. The publishers won't sell to them/place ridiculous limitations on them. They're why a library has only so many 'copies' of a digital book to lend at once, why libraries won't have popular books as ebooks, etc.

notpushkin on Nov 18, 2022 | [–]

You might find Archive.org’s Open Library project interesting then:

https://openlibrary.org/

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