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To access a A small number of books use the following formats and you will may need to have install a suitable plug-in on your computer.*[http://www.java.com/en Java] and a *[http://djvu.org/resources DjVu plug-in] installed on your computer. [http://www.caminova.net/en/downloads Free DjVu plug-ins] from caminova.net, one of the links in [http://help.galileo.usg.edu/faqs/why_am_i_having_problems_accessing_djvu_files_for_newspaper_and_other_image Why am I having problems accessing DjVu files for newspapers and other images?] Galileo, University of Georgia [USA] Virtual Library. This advises that Safari versions 5.1 and greater are not supported (at October 2012). :An example of a book using the Djvu format is [http://ia600404.us.archive.org//load_djvu_applet.php?file=11/items/FrontierAndOverseasExpeditionsFromIndiaVolII/FrontierAndOverseasExpeditionsFromIndiaVolII.djvu ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume 2 Supplement A, Operations against the Zakka Khel Afridis''] 1908 Archive.org*The Torrent (or BitTorrent) format detailed in the Archive.org link [https://archive.org/details/bittorrent Welcome to Archive Torrents]. :An example of a book using the Torrent format is [https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith. Second edition 1919 (first edition December 1917).
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One section of the internet Archive is the [http://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary Internet Archive Lending Library], through the Open Library. Details are given in [http://openlibrary.org/borrow/about Borrow eBooks: How it Works] openlibrary.org and [http://openlibrary.org/help/faq/borrow FAQ: Borrowing Books Through Open Library]. The main restriction is that only one person can see a particular book at one time. An example of a book in the Lending Library is [http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography''] by John Masters 1956, an autobiography of an officer in the Indian Army serving in the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan Campaign 1936-39]]
