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and why are the books being purged ? Because there's not enough space to store all of them. why is there not enough space ? because books take up a lot of spac
by digler999 10y ago
and why are the books being purged ? Because there's not enough space to store all of them.
why is there not enough space ? because books take up a lot of space for the amount of information they contain.
why do they take up so much space ? because they cannot be digitized.
why can't they be digitized ? because of archaic IP law.
- acqq 10y agoGood digitalisation is far from bring trivial or cheap, especially if the book has some scientific content or is old enough that something is different (like s forms in the old books). Still it would be nice if the interested parties would be allowed to do it.
- Bahamut 10y agoEven if they were digitized, not everyone has an electronic device able to consume digital content like that.
- abstractbeliefs 10y agoSo imagine instead a library where every book ever written was stored digitally, and the library had an automated print and bind station. So to begin with, the library would be empty shelves, perhaps taking some books off the load of nearby similar libraries. When you come in, you can look for the book you want. If it's not on the shelf, you order a print, and in half an hour it's ready. Take it, read it, return it. It goes on the shelf. When the shelves get full, recycle the materials of the least used, or redistribute the books to where they appear more in demand. Now, access to e-readers is no longer a problem, and any book you want can become available in hard print, and we solve the space problem by simply regarding shelf space as a cache for the most in demand books. Additionally, when books become worn, damaged, or unnecessary, we can reuse the materials.
- lsaferite 10y agoOr loan out some dirt cheap e-readers.