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Old 06-17-2011, 09:15 AM   #22
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Has no one invented a scanner that will take a high-res scan of a book without having to cut the book up? If not, they really need to get on that before all these rare books are destroyed.

The thing that anti-digital people forget it that most of this digital media (i.e. books) is so widely distributed that even if a bunch of them were destroyed or lost, there's still a lot more out there to spread and accumulate to replace said digital files.

The only problem might come from a really obscure text, in which case the university or whatever housing it should have off-site backups and be stored in ideal conditions just like books are stored in archives. As for non-commercial items, well, that's up to the owner to print off a copy, I guess.

This is speaking as an historian who loves old books. They're not going away, but we are guaranteeing that they'll be around a lot longer now.

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