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AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

files.catbox.moe

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At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book—one page at a time, by hand.

files.catbox.moe

AnActOfCreation@programming.dev to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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    Sometimes books are valuable so cutting them into bits so they can go on the Internets faster isn’t feasible.

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      In 10 years you can just reprint the book by molecule so why bother

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