[ih] the pirate archive

[John Levine]

In article <c80eef27537a9c96b8fd34046b965885 at seas.upenn.edu> you write:
>Probably too off-topic, so feel free to ignore:
>I thought the Internet Archive only scans books that are in the public 
>domain?

You are definitely mistaken.

See https://openlibrary.org/

They know which books are P.D., you can download those without
restriction.  The others have the one borrower at a time limit.