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Re:Loulan Kingdom by ch4s3 on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:33PM (#15493465)
It's a real tragedy that more old books haven't been digitized. I wonder to what extent US copyright law has had a chilling effect on digitization.
Re:Loulan Kingdom by riffraff on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:37PM (#15493519)
this[0] has been on HN some time ago, discussing google's effort to digitize a ton of books.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...