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500,000 Books Have Been Deleted From The Internet Archive’s Lending Library (www.techdirt.com)

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago

Capitalism burning down today's equivalent of the library of Alexandria.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

Won't somebody please think of the capitalists!

What would these publishers do if they had to be charitable and not force libraries to pay >1000% more than retail for a digital version of their book just so children from impoverished communities could have access to them!?

Those poor fat cats would starve I tell you! starve!!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These things come in torrents?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I wonder if there's a list of books that were deleted that could all be placed in a single torrent file? 🤔

*That would be very approximately 1.3-2.7 tb.

https://ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/302/is-there-a-good-size-comparison-of-which-of-different-e-book-formats-is-smaller

https://www.howtogeek.com/801844/how-many-ebooks-can-fit-on-a-kindle/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Grrrr, I say!