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2025-07-01 05:30 UTC
@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social @Yuvalne@433.world
Aren't you (and NWU there) describing the IA National Emergency Library (which can certainly be debated) rather than how IA has operated outside a ~3-month period in 2020?
Are you suggesting that IA is currently doing this?
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@ehasbrouck@urbanists.social 2025-07-01 15:53
@dhobern@scicomm.xyz @Yuvalne@433.world - Yes, they are still doing this. Scans of books are distributed by Internet Archive in multiple formats: as ebooks with some restrictions, but also (and more widely used) as unrestricted images of pages with a unique URL for each page. See discussion and detailed walk-through here: https://nwu.org/what-is-the-internet-archive-doing-with-our-books/