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In Praise of Public Libraries
- musicale 8y agoThe good news: we now have the ability to create one of the greatest achievements in human history – a huge digital library, much larger than any physical library in the world, available to anyone with an internet connection. In fact, Google and others have already done so by scanning university libraries and the library of congress. The bad news: we aren't making this available to the world because it would make it harder for publishers, distributors, and authors to make money. (And perhaps we're afraid of giving Google more power than they already have.)