Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ...
by seoaeu on Sunday July 03, 2022 @10:36PM
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We've basically already had that for decades thanks to public libraries. In fact, between large collections and inter-library loans most provide 1-2 orders of magnitude more content than the library of Alexandria ever held
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Re:Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are ...
by sircastor on Sunday July 03, 2022 @11:31PM
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My relatively uninformed opinion is that the Library of Alexandria was an amazing resource for its time, but in modern context is tremendously overrated. While it certainly contained a vast amount of knowledge for the time, the amount of valuable, useful, accessible information of a modern mid-size city library I would guess is substantially greater.