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'National Emergency Library' Lends A Hand — And Lots Of Books! — During Pandemic

With coronavirus concerns closing libraries around the world, the nonprofit Internet Archive has suspended its waitlists for the digital copies of more than a million books.
Physical books may be more difficult to obtain for free these days, but the nonprofit Internet Archive is trying to keep digital bookshelves stocked through the end of the national coronavirus crisis.

Concerns over the coronavirus have and around the world, depriving their regular patrons of free access to the Internet, shelter and, of course, books — just when many of them could

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