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>There's so much specialized knowledge out there, but often you'll only learn about it from someone else, or a highly technical book. I remember my mind being
by ramesh31 3y ago
>There's so much specialized knowledge out there, but often you'll only learn about it from someone else, or a highly technical book.
I remember my mind being blown by the Cal engineering library. Endless stacks and stacks of dense foundational knowledge from the 1950s-1990s you would never find on Google. Books are massively underrated these days.
- generalizations 3y agoI wonder if that stuff is available on places like libgen. If it isn't, I really hope someone digitizes it.
- dredmorbius 3y agoMany large academic libraries have extensive digitisation efforts, though the results more often turn up on Hathi Trust (something of a waste of electrons in my view) than anywhere truly useful. Hathi Trust itself grew out of Google's book-scanning initiative, and is shaped (and scarred) by copyright lawsuits. That said, I hope some number of those works also find their way to Libgen and ZLibrary.