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It's like a public library that lets you borrow and read books from other cities' libraries!
Yes, we have interlibrary loan.
Instant interlibrary loan!
-Jo Walton, Among Others
I'm pretty sure most libraries also have that.
That's called interlibrary loan and it predates the internet by a long time.
1876 officially. Unofficially, centuries before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlibrary_loan
But it doesn't have lots of useful stuff that makes people want to come here :(