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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by silverreads on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:44PM (#22734769)
You know exactly how much an SRE makes. That's not what a library should be spending money on. Simply making a copy is thousands of man hours simpler than making a consumer facing online asset tracking system. You wildly misrepresent my obvious intent.
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Re:Internet Archive responds: Why we released the National E... by geofft on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @12:13AM (#22734871)
Oh, that wasn't obvious to me at all - I thought you knew that plenty of libraries already have a consumer-facing online asset tracking system already, powered by the Internet Archive, which is why these books got scanned in the first place.
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