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> What's the difference of the vast rare books in private collections There's little difference and I would suggest there's a pity in knowledge being hoarded b
by AlecSchueler 1mo ago
> What's the difference of the vast rare books in private collections
There's little difference and I would suggest there's a pity in knowledge being hoarded by collectors.
If we were getting into the differences, though, it would be that is now happening en masse in order for a handful of corporations to monopolise knowledge, history and ideas from books that were until recently available somewhere to the public.
I also doubt that many collectors are buying rare books with the intention of destroying them.
- lucfranken 1mo agoThey won't destroy the books very likely but also the amount of capacity and money to do this on a huge scale is (as far as I know) totally unprecedented. And it's irreversible when the books are really destroyed. That combination makes it an urgent and important issue.
- tbossanova 1mo agoLibraries have been trying to do exactly this (digitising) for many years, without funding. Imagine the wealth of human knowledge that might be in proprietary llms after this? Will there be a path back to the source material? I hold out hope that this digitisation effort will preserve the digitised source materials in the public domain somewhere