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From Wikipedia:

“Furthermore, they argued that the Internet Archive was not abiding by CDL, as it had acknowledged that its partner libraries were not always withdrawing their physical copies from their shelves.”

Are you sure no one argued they weren’t lending more books than they had? Specifically during the pandemic it is true that just kind of decided that it was probably the case that there were plenty of library books not being distributed (note books they didn’t own) so it was ok to loan basically as many copies as they wanted

I wish there were better wrappers for it too. One of the projects I'm still quite proud of that I made as a student was a react wrapper around PDF.js used here https://boardbook.kent.edu/ (though since they no longer seem to be using it I guess it will probably go dead at some point), but the fact there wasn't really a good open source one and as you say the docs were pretty lacking. My favorite discovery was that the performance was much worse unless I registered a particular scroll listener. It's been years now so I only vaguely remember, but I think registering a listener for `wheel` would cause scroll events to be treated as blocking and this made the whole scrolling experience less janky.