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Originally Posted by crich70
Ah but which libraries have which books?
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Good question.
A lot of those scanned are at the University of Michigan. Here are their interlibrary loan fees:
https://www.lib.umich.edu/interlibra...ther-libraries
I think that my local public library is in the tranche having to pay $20 plus their return mailing postage. Maybe they will absorb the cost for me, but I don't want to hurt their budget, and that's one reason I hardly ever ask for an interlibrary loan.
While Google's prices would have varied, it usually would have been less (or always, since if the eBook is $20, I just won't buy it). And with interlibrary loan, unlike the proposed Google scheme, authors and their estates receive nothing.