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mejomonster · 13 days

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Ive been hearimg all about the internet archive lawsuit and my big question is just...

All the 1800-1950 out of print, and out of copyright date, non fiction books... will they be taken down? Because archive.org is a treasure trove for finding pre 1950 and pre 1900 language learning textbooks, ones you cannot find in print to purchase and cannot find in libraries in many countries and if you can its potentially 1 library in one whole country. It is the best place to find old (very old) out of print books, digitally backed up and accessible to many. In the years I've used archive.org for that, some of those books would have check out limits with due dates, and some would be open to view fully on the webpage without checking out.

#rant #internet archive #langblr #i just. do not know where else to find Poco a Poco and First Spanish Book by Guerillimo and Francais par le methode nature #and the 1930s Chinese Grammar textbooks #and Japanese in 30 Hours (from 1930s)#so many amazing textbooks which functionally dont exist anymore in a way to purchase #and are rarely found digitally. theyre too old for most building-libraries to bother #having any ebook copy of (or making in the first place) and archivists digitizing old books #was the only way books like that got put up online #(and old spellbooks and interesting esoteric texts from pre 1900)#to access some of those textbooks id need to spend thousands on plane tickets and hotels to visit physical archives who still have #print copies. which is not feasible #basically. if the site is going down i need to find copies of like 100 old textbook files #also theres wayback machine which... i dont even wanna think about if that ceased to exist

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