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Re:How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Mean... by ef4 on Thursday August 07, 2014 @03:03PM (#8149487)
> Physical distribution of acid-free paper books are better at preserving history.

I don't doubt that those books have better survivability, but they also represent only the tiny fraction of written information that was worth publishing in book form.

archive.org is a great example of how a relatively small nonprofit organization can now afford to archive historical information at volumes that were previously impossible.

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Re:How the Web Became Our ‘External Brain,’ and What It Mean... by walterbell on Saturday August 09, 2014 @08:20PM (#8158412)
Archive.org wrote a post explaining why they are keeping physical copies of their digital assets, http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-ne...
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