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Does anyone know of a place where people request scans of public domain material that hasn't yet been digitized? Every time I'm in the stacks of a well-stocked
by cxr 3y ago
Does anyone know of a place where people request scans of public domain material that hasn't yet been digitized? Every time I'm in the stacks of a well-stocked library, I feel like I should be making the most of it, but the only thing I know of that comes close is /r/Scholar, and it's not a ready source of requests that are limited strictly to items that are legally in the clear...
- qingcharles 3y agoPerhaps this place? https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ I am always looking for magazines that haven't yet been scanned for Magazedia (magazine encyclopedia).
- MollyRealized 3y agoIt would be a good question to ask Jason Scott of the Internet Archive [1]. When you hear of the Internet Archive swooping in and saving a warehouse of 1980s games manuals, etc., he is usually the one behind that effort. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Scott
- textfiles 3y agoI showed up and got an excellent pushback.
- livrem 3y agoI am always looking for old boardgames (and, to clarify: many 19th century boardgames were published just as a book; you had to construct your own components based on instructions in the book). I have managed to track down some, and received scans and/or photos from several libraries and museums (in five different countries; not counting the excellent online archive of scanned boardgames available from the National Library in Finland, since those were already available without me having to order anything), but I have a list of games I have not yet been able to locate (or games that I have not found images of all components yet; it is quite annoying to have the rulebook but not the game board!). Makes me sad that maybe some of those games are partially or completely lost. Of course there must be many, many games I never even heard of. So... anything related to old boardgames is of interest. Even if there are boring roll-and-move games, or games I am not interested in like chess or checkers, I still like the idea of trying to get as much game history preserved and available online as possible.
- mycall 3y agoCheck out lostandfoundgames.com. If it doesn't exist, it should.
- textfiles 3y agoSo, the internet archive scans an average of 3,500 books a day, so hopefully we will get to it.