Thread: Open Library -- have they changed borrowing policy?
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Old 03-16-2021, 01:15 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Phssthpok View Post
OK. Seems that many books that were available as 14-day loans are now only available for an hour at a time -- even when multiple copies appear to be available. Pity.
I have seen that also. I don't know why. Perhaps copies must be of exactly the same edition in order to qualify.

I do think that lending a digital copy of a scan of a sequestered paper book is a questionable concept.
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