Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

• 01011@monero.town ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That depends on where you live.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And my library doesn’t have every book I want to read.

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  • Zacryon@lemmy.wtf ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That depends on where you live.

    Yes, I know. That’s why I said:

    However, not a simple solution for everyone in every country.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not even limited by country. There are far too many places in well resourced countries that don’t have access to good (or any) libraries.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s also a corrupt cop

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• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Libraries where good for before the XXI century. Nowadays the amount of content they had is pretty small. Most libraries don’t really has anything but the more famous books.

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  • Akrenion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They became community hubs that offer more than just books. Even ebooks albeit that being weirdly capped by publishers as well.

    They do much more than public opinion would make you believe.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, but that doesn’t change the fact that specific books can be hard to find. Libraries are great, but they don’t solve the problem IA solves.

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      • Akrenion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We got a nationwide network of specific books. You can order books to your local library if you are a little patient. They might not have a lot of selfpublished books but that is a problem of scale and negotiating power of publishers.

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  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    i would fuck with public libraries if they had stocks of educational material, as well as communal spaces, which they generally do so.

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• Disaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, except scumbags like eric adams, NYC’s bought-owned-and-operated-by-real-estate-interests mayor.

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He’s also a corrupt cop, but I repeat myself.

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No one is preventing you from visiting a library, which would be a fesible alternative.

  actually blatantly wrong, public libraries are slowly dying and losing funding.

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