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The magical library in the countryside, to be painfully explicit, does not exist.
by scarmig 1mo ago
The magical library in the countryside, to be painfully explicit, does not exist.
- Ekaros 1mo agoAnd they should not even be needed. In many places the issue is solved at start. Copy or copies of each commercially produced book is send to national library. Which with tax payer money keeps an archive. Meaning that at least one copy exist for research purposes if needed.
- scarmig 1mo agoUnfortunately, that's not the case in the United States. The LOC only selects around half of published books to be permanently held. The rest are disposed of (usually returning them to the publisher, donating them to a library, or destroying them).
- fmajid 1mo agoThey should send them to The Internet Archive instead.
- FeloniousHam 1mo agoWhy aren't we storming the Library of Congress? They are the real villains here.
- fmajid 1mo agoNo, Congress itself is, for not giving its own Library the resources to do is job.
- soperj 1mo agoHow many times can you post the same thing in a thread?
- exe34 1mo agoThe internet archive