This is an amazing trove of human knowledge - if made digitally accessible, the titles should be on a Web page and the references crawled by Google Scholar. We

This is an amazing trove of human knowledge - if made digitally accessible, the titles should be on a Web page and the references crawled by Google Scholar. We should eventuall OCR all that stuff to use it to train LLMs. Seen from that commodity perspective, it has financial value. Unfortunately, human species is pretty bad at long-term archiving of digital assets. Good luck to the Internet Archive - they have had their share of recent troubles, and I hope their continuation is secure. Imagine the struggle, sweat and suffering that went into these 3.2 kilometers of shelf space; actually, only someone who has done a Ph.D. can probably appreciate that.