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fossilesque@mander.xyz to Academia@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library

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500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library

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fossilesque@mander.xyz to Academia@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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If you found out that 500,000 books had been removed from your local public library, at the demands of big publishers who refused to let them buy and lend new copies, and were further suing the lib…
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    Capitalism burning down today’s equivalent of the library of Alexandria.

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    Won’t somebody please think of the capitalists!

    What would these publishers do if they had to be charitable and not force libraries to pay >1000% more than retail for a digital version of their book just so children from impoverished communities could have access to them!?

    Those poor fat cats would starve I tell you! starve!!

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    These things come in torrents?

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      I wonder if there’s a list of books that were deleted that could all be placed in a single torrent file? 🤔

      *That would be very approximately 1.3-2.7 tb.

      https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/302/is-there-a-good-size-comparison-of-which-of-different-e-book-formats-is-smaller

      https://www.howtogeek.com/801844/how-many-ebooks-can-fit-on-a-kindle/

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    Grrrr, I say!

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