• simple@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Open Library allows you to digitally borrow a ton of books for free. It’s not the greatest experience since the books they own are scanned and not digital copies, but it’s good enough, and their catalogue is not half bad.

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        Just legality. These are paid books that they can’t give away for free, but acting as a library they can let you borrow them, read them, and “return” them.

        In practice you’ll rarely feel this system because you can just re-borrow it whenever you want to read it.