7 ms·
They're buying the books from resellers, not rescuing these books from dumpsters. Stop being an apologist.
by soperj 27d ago
They're buying the books from resellers, not rescuing these books from dumpsters. Stop being an apologist.
- scarmig 27d agoThe magical library in the countryside, to be painfully explicit, does not exist.
- Ekaros 27d agoAnd they should not even be needed. In many places the issue is solved at start. Copy or copies of each commercially produced book is send to national library. Which with tax payer money keeps an archive. Meaning that at least one copy exist for research purposes if needed.
- scarmig 27d agoUnfortunately, that's not the case in the United States. The LOC only selects around half of published books to be permanently held. The rest are disposed of (usually returning them to the publisher, donating them to a library, or destroying them).
- fmajid 27d agoThey should send them to The Internet Archive instead.
- FeloniousHam 27d agoWhy aren't we storming the Library of Congress? They are the real villains here.
- fmajid 26d agoNo, Congress itself is, for not giving its own Library the resources to do is job.
- soperj 27d agoHow many times can you post the same thing in a thread?
- exe34 27d agoThe internet archive
- skeledrew 27d agoDumpster is where they go when the resellers fail to complete sales.