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The nonprofit digital library, Internet Archive has created the “Digital Lending Library” (Openlibrary.org), a project that scans public domain books and makes them available for borrowing through libraries. The project is covered in the Wall Street Journal.
The scanned books are available through OverDrive’s Digital Library Reserve.
The story is also covered in a WSJ video:
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