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Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen
- someperson 6y agoPrior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198029 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25198029
- wyldfire 6y agoGee, somehow it sounded like the headline referred to laptops.
- saagarjha 6y agoPrototype Macs, obviously.
- maltelandwehr 6y agoDid anyone check ebay? :)
- 4gotunameagain 6y agoMore like Christie's, ebay for the rich. They have been caught selling stolen artefacts so many times they now try to "investigate" if the seller has the right to sell.
- nathanvanfleet 6y agoSo it took them 20 years to reach this conclusion?
- lopis 6y agoYes, it took them 20 years to search 10 million books and objects. Seems reasonable.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoThis is why the number one priority of every library with rare books/manuscript/maps should be to get them digitized and distributed as widely as possible. These old works are out of copyright anyway, so there should not be legal issues to doing that. Basically, anything that is stored in a single place is vulnerable.
- siraben 6y agoIf we assume there are people in possession of these notebooks, what could incentivize them to return it? Is there any value in holding onto the originals?
- oh_sigh 6y agoSomething that has happened in the past is an employee stole a valuable book(s) and then died and their children inherited it without knowing what it was. The public appeal reached the kids who then returned the books.