I actually love imagining ways in which one can build a digitallibrary in its core meaning.
A system reliable enough to survive centuries and maybe millennia, many times redundant and verifiable and self-repairing, allowing exhaustive search.
This fascination is maybe the reason I love systems intended for “piracy”. Because frankly paying for media is not such a big deal - I download things not too often and most of the time download things I’ve downloaded before. I even have a few bought games in Steam which I haven’t played.
But I love to feel that there’s no company, no organization behind that exchange.
Getting back to libraries - in early 00s people would think of the Web like of a layer upon which such a thing can be built. It turns out that this didn’t work, but let’s please don’t stop with the optimism, and let’s please discard the approach which hasn’t worked instead of clinging to it.
It does seem to be some differentiation, I can’t walk into my child’s school and check out a book. At least I don’t think that would fly. It would definitely not be the norm.
i really hate how they call it a ‘library’, very disingenuous if it’s all on their servers and predicated on their fucking license agreements
what if real libraries had to throw away books because harpercollins got pissy. would anyone stand for it? (probably yes)
You mean like southern states banning books because they are “offensive”?
Ironically, the christian Bible is one of the most offensive books there is
Donkey semen.
I’m more worried about their definition of buy ;)
I actually love imagining ways in which one can build a digital library in its core meaning.
A system reliable enough to survive centuries and maybe millennia, many times redundant and verifiable and self-repairing, allowing exhaustive search.
This fascination is maybe the reason I love systems intended for “piracy”. Because frankly paying for media is not such a big deal - I download things not too often and most of the time download things I’ve downloaded before. I even have a few bought games in Steam which I haven’t played.
But I love to feel that there’s no company, no organization behind that exchange.
Getting back to libraries - in early 00s people would think of the Web like of a layer upon which such a thing can be built. It turns out that this didn’t work, but let’s please don’t stop with the optimism, and let’s please discard the approach which hasn’t worked instead of clinging to it.
I’m aboard the ceramics train, I love the laser engraving, QR code method they got going on now.
How big would the “book” storing one Rogue Squadron novel would be with that method?
It can fit about a Terabyte per cm^2, and is laser engraved QR codes versus 0s and 1s.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/cerabyte-ceramic-storage-poised-to-usher-in-yottabyte-era
Aw. Nice.
They do actually have to re-license their online audio books every so many listens. They have to pay for the same audiobook over and over.
That’s why it’s a lot better for them to lend out the CDs, a few people are coming in for that.
Are school libraries real libraries?
Would you suggest that a location that houses thousands of books that are available to borrow and/or use for research is not a library?
It does seem to be some differentiation, I can’t walk into my child’s school and check out a book. At least I don’t think that would fly. It would definitely not be the norm.