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Throw a mere 1000 scanners at it in a warehouse and you'll be done in 3 months. ps. amount of information in the world doubles roughly every few years, I wonde
by soheil 8y ago
Throw a mere 1000 scanners at it in a warehouse and you'll be done in 3 months.
ps. amount of information in the world doubles roughly every few years, I wonder how that reflects on the number of books.
- jacquesm 8y agoQuality of information is a very important metric. Books have editors, proofreaders, fact-checkers. Online stuff not so much. As the value of a bit goes down so does the value of a collection of those bits.
- jimmaswell 8y agoThere are more than enough junk books out there too for sure.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThere is also an argument to made that editors etc serve as gatekeepers to keep out "the wrong kind of people," which frequently correlates to the wrong gender, the wrong race, the wrong religion, the wrong social class and so on. For some people, freedom to try to express themselves and/or freedom to hear others try to express themselves is far more valuable than whether or not the writing is grammatically correct and typo-free.
- rtkwe 8y agoFortunately most of those new books will be created using digital software so preserving them is much easier theoretically. Just have to convince the publisher to give them up.