Books are only published in digital form, so there are no more bookstores or libraries in the world. Most books for the past two and a half millennia are digitized, with some exceptions that may have been lost before they could go through the process. Keep in mind that even the Catholic Church has undertaken a thorough digitization process recently in our time, so a great deal of information is available online.
Various companies allow customers to borrow books through an online membership with their sites, with some requiring customers to pay a monthly or yearly fee to borrow more books per month. These services account for the vast majority of recently published works. However, there are a lot of works available in public domain, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, Shakespeare's works, various translations of Homer's pieces, the complete collection of Hemingway's novels, and more.
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Books are only published in digital form, so there are no more bookstores or libraries in the world. Most books for the past two and a half millennia are digitized, with some exceptions that may have been lost before they could go through the process. Keep in mind that even the Catholic Church has undertaken a thorough digitization process recently in our time, so a great deal of information is available online.
Various companies allow customers to borrow books through an online membership with their sites, with some requiring customers to pay a monthly or yearly fee to borrow more books per month. These services account for the vast majority of recently published works. However, there are a lot of works available in public domain, such as encyclopedias, dictionaries, Shakespeare's works, various translations of Homer's pieces, the complete collection of Hemingway's novels, and more.