At the start of the pandemic, teachers and librarians pleaded with a prominent nonprofit to make it easier for kids at home to check out books from its digital library.

The organization, called the Internet Archive, agreed. While it traditionally lent out its more than a million digital books one at a time to the public and through partnerships with libraries, it dropped that limit in what it described as a “National Emergency Library.”

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/25/internet-archive-digital-lending-lawsuit/?wpisrc=nl_books