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Brewster,
Special linen cloth, color woodblock prints, silk thread binding. This was a special edition which is probably worth more than the paper binding which was selling for $429. Sad thing was that some librarian(s) saw fit to throw this thing in the garbage, incidentally after I had complained to them about other books which they had thrown away earlier.
I understand that the Archive may be archiving hard copies of the items placed in the archive. Something like this probably should be preserved. Collectors probably would only buy it nd cut it up for the prints.
Gerry
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July 09, 2009 07:22:13pm |
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We may be seeing a wave of discards from libraries as digitized holdings become more prevalent. We have heard rumors of this from Google libraries-- that google's copy will mean they can toss theirs. Scary, but there it is.
The Internet Archive is developing methods of storing physical books, but we are not there yet.
-brewster
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July 09, 2009 07:50:26pm |
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Brewster,
I found in the trash dumpster from this same University library a list of Google books, which were cross referenced with the discards. They were literally discarding hundreds of books which they found on Google. They are going through their stacks and culling anything which was on Google or which was not circulating to their liking.
Gerry
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July 09, 2009 07:53:57pm |
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That is very interesting. Can you post that here, or send it to me in email? Anything that can make that correspondence would be helpful.
-brewster
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July 09, 2009 08:34:08pm |
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I would also like to see that list, as I use googlebooks daily for genealogy references.
TIA,
Lynne
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