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Originally Posted by Sarmat89
I don't see a need of that. Every book that has any literary value, be it even a crappy serial crimi or harlequin paperback printed on wastepaper, has been already scanned, digitalized, and stored on thousands of computers across the world. Otherwise, it is useless and unworthy of preservation/public access. Even libraries don't keep that junk.
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I'd be wary of judging books by what an ordinary library would keep. Libraries have finite space and a need to continually acquire contemporary books.
On a more serious note it is little benefit to researchers, or would be readers if a book is stashed on a few thousand computers without legitimate public access and many researchers have a use for certain types of written material regardless of literary merit.
[I've just been reading about the Modern English Oxford Dictionary and the possibilities provided by online digitised documents when trying to give the best history of a word. ]