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To access a small number of books you will need to have [http://www.java.com/en Java] and a [http://djvu.org/resources DjVu plug-in] installed on your computer. Mac users having problems with DjVu should read [http://www.caminova.net/en/support/snow_leopard_err.aspx DjVu Browser Plug-in Does Not Work in Safari on Mac OS X 10.6]. For more information, [http://www.findmypast.co.uk/helpadvice/faqs/djVu-viewer/index.jsp FAQs: Enhanced (DjVu) viewer] from Findmypast.co.uk
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]]
==Project Gutenberg==
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