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Amazon is changing what is written in books (youtu.be)
submitted 2 days ago by Luffy879@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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But lets see the Positive side: Now the Nazis wont have to burn thousands of books, saving tons of co2 in their Plan to take over the world with propaganda. So, yay for the envoirment I guess

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[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Or DRMless digital. But yeah, they need to coexist with paper ones.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

DRMless digital is great - I have a calibre library of thousands - but still more vulnerable.

Canticle of Lebowitz is a great post apocalyptic novel. After the nukes, Catholic monasteries preserve the ancient tradition of copying down manuscripts. Text doesn’t require any form of infrastructure.

There are also many texts/other media that are not available in any digital format. Obscure or older. For as much of an Information Age we are in, a lot of knowledge is being lost through neglect.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 13 hours ago

The overwhelming majority of my library is actually not digital-native - rather, pdf or djvu scans. I should really contribute to Libgen by scanning some of my library.