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Internet Archive starts backing up digital books on paper
- lazyjeff 15y agoThis title is a bit misleading: they are not backing up digital books on paper. According to the article, they are instead keeping original copies of the books rather than destroying them.
- felipemnoa 15y agoConsidering that we are pretty much going digital now these types of repositories will become invaluable in a few hundred years if not earlier. Thankfully a lot of people love their books and will not dispose of them even if they could digitize them. So even if a book could not be found in a repository there is a good chance that somebody around the world will own a copy.
- mhb 15y agoNewspapers are also a concern: http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html http://home.gwi.net/~dnb/former_newsrep.html