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© Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.A library without books? Universities purging dusty volumes
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM INDIANA, Pa.©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Tom
When was the last time you held a book in your hands and read it? Me? Yesterday
talaraedokko
Until we have some government official telling us we can't access A or B website because it endangers national policy, our economy, whatever.
A few years ago I got into electro-farming. Quite interesting. I read along the way that early the last can that in Europe it was one of the categories that were banned and burned. We all heard of burning books but never what kind of categories.
As it turned out this category was banned because it posed a great threat to the nascent pharmaceutical and chemical economic sectors. What we consider fiction today was very successful fields 100-200 years ago. They were during many sicknesses through simple electricity.
I think we need private clouds to protect categories of information.
talaraedokko
Sorry, that was to be last century.
They were curing ...
This tablet has a mind of its own.
Toasted Heretic
Love books. The feel of them. The joy and knowledge they bring.
Back in the other countries, I couldn't leave a charity shop without buying at least one. Sometimes get lucky and find out of print stuff, as well.
lostrune2
If people don't anymore go to the library to use the books, then they themselves are signing those books' death warrants
This has been the same thing happening with more consumer-buying going online - there's no more foot-traffic that could lead to stumbling something new
Ah_so
If people aren't borrowing the books, can we really justify using valuable space to store them? Yes, keep a copy in storage, but books that are never take up space in a library that could be used another way.