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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:08PM (#26350419)
I am happy to pay to acquire any of these banned books for the Internet Archive to scan, store, and serve them in perpetuity.

Libraries come and go, and should be treated as temporary collections (fair enough re space constraints). To attempt to erase history (“cancel it”?) is to ignore its teachings.

Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by hda2 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:25PM (#26351734)
And what if the Internet Archive falls victim to this disease and decide to self-censor? What next?

The precedent of books being illegal has already been set in many countries. Now all that is missing is the political will to have them banned (and at the rate things are deteriorating, I expect this will come sooner rather than later).

Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by toomuchtodo on Thursday March 04, 2021 @09:32PM (#26351792)
I’d also upload to Library Genesis, who previously were the storage backend for SciHub. To your point, distributed storage provides durability against censorship.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by almost_usual on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:05PM (#26352059)
P2P decentralized protocol will work.
Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by brailsafe on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:29PM (#26350645)
and you can. From what I've seen, particularly at University libraries, they'll do sales of super old worn out books, or long since outdated academic material.

Edit: In retrospect, this comment reads like I'm dismissing the parent or grandparents' concern, but really I'm just saying that you can definitely buy old stock that's been taken off shelves.