[bryanrasmussen]

I certainly appreciate what they did and I donate to the Internet Archive but what does lending to one person at a time mean here? It's on the internet, anyone could lend, as far as I know.

If 1000 users come on a shopping portal and buy things they are all buying one at a time, but 1000 transactions are still done.

[pwinnski]

Not the person to whom you're replying, but I believe they meant that Archive.org only loans out as many copies of a book as they have access to physically.

Mr. Kahle is now claiming that they kept that up during the emergency period, but expanding the pool of physical books to include those being held my libraries around the country. That doesn't seem to quite line up with what I remember, which was the term "unlimited," but we'll see how that shakes out in court.