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2025-07-01 11:57 UTC
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world that is not true. They had books for which you had to log in to view them at restricted url. Only one person at a time could do that. I know because there was a book I wanted to read and I had to go through this procedure.
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@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social 2025-07-01 15:51
@rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org @Yuvalne@433.world - Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/