Is openlibrary.org really legal?

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  • openlibrary

    One webpage for every book ever published!

  • I just found the website openlibrary.org and it seemed almost too good to be true lol. There are a couple of books on there that aren't available to borrow at my local library and that I want to download. However I am unsure if I should because when I was looking it up there seems to have been some controversy over whether their practices with scanning and uploading ebooks is in the clear. For example, this article: https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/update-open-library/

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