#digital archive

[noturnaregia]

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[burningvelvet]

i’m so fucking sick of people (say, the people currently winning the lawsuit) claiming that the internet archive infringes their precious darling copyrights—if they want individual books taken down, why should the trial not only be about those?—why must they punish the entire catalogue? i use the archive primarily for old historical books, academic books, many books that are niche or 100+ years old which no one can buy anywhere, nearly no one would buy even if they could, and which the vast majority of real libraries do not even carry. i use the internet archive practically every single day for research and studying and it is my #1 resource by far. why do people value profits over knowledge? why do people value profits over accessibility? this is a library and the publishing companies are mad because it allows people to read their works for free. IT’S A FUCKING LIBRARY! poor people deserve to read and access archives. poor people make up the majority of the human race. all this trial is accomplishing is making thousands of great books inaccessible to poor people because publishing companies want to save a few bucks. sure, you can borrow books from other libraries via interlibrary loaning, but doing so takes WEEKS due to shipping. the internet archive saves people an enormous amount of time and money. this is a major case of book burning being put into action and practically no one outside of academia gives a fuck or even knows about this issue because journalists know this story won’t sell well and thus aren’t bringing attention to it. i am disgusted and my hope for humanity is in the gutter.

[unauthorized-output]

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (THUG2) for PlaySation 2. Scan of game cover insert.

[sugar-plum-senpai]

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[ikana-ko]

Actions | Ocarina of Time game manual

[unknownorgan]

[lesbian-archives]

Older issues of Lesbian Connection Digital Archive

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[w111cca]

Kreayshawn- Summertime

[dyingenigma]

Yoshikazu Aizawa

[snyney]

NW

[look-a-polar-bear]

covilhã, portugal. february 2024

i'm drowning in work and currently vv sick, but i'm fine, making some nice stuff and taking some nice photos. what else can a girl ask for?

really, it's not been easy, but as long as i can keep going doing the things i love and being with people i love, i'll be okay at the end of the day.

because sometimes happiness is just sitting at your desk with a cup of tea and a cat on your lap.

[artisming]

[libraryresources]

Article by Erik Sherman, for MIT Technology Review (October 26, 2022):

Digital storage systems can become unreadable in as little as three to five years. Librarians and archivists race to copy things over to newer formats. But entropy is always there, waiting in the wings. “Our professions and our people often try to extend the normal life span as far as possible through a variety of techniques, but it’s still holding back the tide,” says Joseph Janes, an associate professor at the University of Washington Information School. 

To complicate matters, archivists are now grappling with an unprecedented deluge of information. In the past, materials were scarce and storage space limited. “Now we have the opposite problem,” Janes says. “Everything is being recorded all the time.”

[unauthorized-output]

TOOL - Opiate EP (1992)

Scans of CD insert. Zoom for detail!

[ilygirlonline]

tinashe for tush magazine (2021)

[auressea]

fuck..

https://www.fastcompany.com/90806657/z-library-ebook-piracy-shut-down-alternatives

Pirated e-book site Z-Library vanishes—sending college students into a panic

Here’s what’s been going on with the site—plus some alternatives for accessing free e-books.