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Probably because they had a fire a few years ago, and weren't able to fully recover everything. https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please

Probably because they had a fire a few years ago, and weren't able to fully recover everything. https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-please-help-rebuild/ https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/scanning-center-fire-ple... "We lost maybe 20 boxes of books and film, some irreplaceable"

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jacobgkau 3y ago
Also from that link: "No servers were affected. If some had been damaged, we have backups in different locations." The fire happened in a scanning center, and the irreplaceable items were things they were right about to scan. Definitely unfortunate, but you can't digitally back up physical media that you haven't scanned yet, anyway. Also, that was eleven years ago, which I would say is more than "a few" (I know, time's moving too quickly these days).