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Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win (arstechnica.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

YMMV, but my local library system has a limit on the number of e-books that can be checked out at a time. Some e-books they only have 1 or 2 “copies” of, other they have 20+ “copies”. Seems dumb to me that there’s a limit, but I’m sure they’re forced to do it for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ugh. Oh well, cant have nice things i guess