Many national libraries receive copies of “every” book published in the covered country. They don’t have to buy them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_library
If you're going by the broad definition and lack of "is this like 1 or 1,000,000 buildings" numbers, note that it also says:
>Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books.
Which would make them fairly irrelevant for this thread.
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If you're going by the broad definition and lack of "is this like 1 or 1,000,000 buildings" numbers, note that it also says:
>Unlike public libraries, these rarely allow citizens to borrow books.
Which would make them fairly irrelevant for this thread.