Once digitised, these unique items will be available for full text search, download and reading through Google Books, as well as being searchable through the Library's website and stored in perpetuity within the Library's digital archive.

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Customers will use their local library's website to search for and select a book to borrow.

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To start checking out Kindle library books, visit your local library's website.

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"Starting with over 2 million items, each with its own special story and significance, the Digital Public Library of America will now begin to assemble the riches of our country's libraries, archives, and museums, and connect them with the public, " executive director Dan Cohen wrote on the library's website Thursday.

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Many of the Library's rich resources can be accessed through its website at www.loc.gov and via interactive exhibitions on a personalized website at myloc.gov .

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