Post #3214952
2025-07-01 15:51 UTC
@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/
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@rhialto@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-07-02 18:57
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world So, summarizing: the statement " The Internet Archive never lent books." is not true, since I showed how they did. Restricting access to one person at a time is as close as you can get with digital media.