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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?



The online library known as archive.org tried exactly this. They got sued, to no one’s surprise.


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).




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