Re:Creative Computing Magazine
by wolfgke on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:26PM
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The much bigger problem is that copyright doesn't allow people to scan books/magazins and distribute the scans. As DanBC writes "Climate controlled storage [...] is expensive". On the other hand: Disk space is very cheap (even if you want high redundancy).
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Re:Creative Computing Magazine
by greglindahl on Sunday June 26, 2016 @07:29PM
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The Internet Archive has a "lending library" of post-1923 books where we own a physical copy, stored in a shipping container in a warehouse, and loan one digital copy at a time for each physical one that we own.
https://blog.archive.org/2010/06/28/digital-lending-library/
https://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary&tab=about
We're hoping to get libraries to join with us to make their books in remote storage available in a similar fashion.