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This is a collection of information about books on Internet Archive. Information is subject to change.
Internet Archive scans physical books and makes them available online for long term preservation. The books are both Public Domain and in Copyright. They are located in the "texts" collection here. As of July 2023 there were 38 million items. It adds thousands of new per day. It is comparable in size and scope to Google Books.
Public domain books can be viewed in whole and downloaded.
Copyright books have limited access. To view page 68 of The Reign of King Stephen, the URL would be https://archive.org/details/reignofstephenki0000stri/page/68 .. simply add "/page/<number>" to the tail end of the book URL. This will show two complete pages, 68 and 69. There are limits to the number of previews that can be made: in any 24 hour period, up to 10 page URLs can be accessed. The 10 are universal for all, not user-specific. The 10 can be accessed an unlimited number of times. During the next 24hrs, a different set of 10 can be viewed based on a first come first serve basis. The counters reset at midnight UTC (ie. London time) - is this true?