Pine W, 24/03/20 21:41:
Forwarding.
Thanks.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Mark
Graham<mark(a)archive.org> wrote:
> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital
versions of referenced book available from
archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia
language editions and counting…)
>
> The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library.
The announcement is at:
<http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/>
In short, now people can borrow 10 books instead of 5 and there seem to
be no limits on how many people can borrow a book at the same time. The
waitlists nearly vanished over the course of the last few days.
Federico