Monday, 25 March 2019

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files

quote [ “I start thinking, but that particular article has such good information, I’m not going to find it again,” she said. “We can’t even consider the possibility we could find a better article.” ]

Uh. That kind of … reminds my of my unread bookmark count.
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rndmnmbr said @ 12:15am GMT on 26th March
One of my "if I ever win the lotto" goals always was to hunt down high quality and high importance nonfiction that never was released digitally - or deliberately so by the author to avoid piracy, Tim Vasquez' Storm Chasers Handbook comes to mind - and do a maximum quality destructive scan and OCR, and release it into the wild.

rndmnmbr said @ 12:22am GMT on 26th March
One of my "if I ever win the lotto" goals always was to hunt down high quality and high importance nonfiction that never was released digitally - or deliberately so by the author to avoid piracy, Tim Vasquez' Storm Chasers Handbook comes to mind - and do a maximum quality destructive scan and OCR, and release it into the wild.

Also, one of the goals of the Random Library has always been to have the books most essential to stand a modern civilization up from nothing in case we knocked ourselves back to the stone age. Give me Mordor and the Random Library and you can keep your fucking ring, I'm smashing Gondor flat with planes and tanks and guns and mechanized infantry, from first fucking principles.



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rndmnmbr said @ 12:15am GMT on 26th March
One of my "if I ever win the lotto" goals always was to hunt down high quality and high importance nonfiction that never was released digitally - or deliberately so by the author to avoid piracy, Tim Vasquez' Storm Chasers Handbook comes to mind - and do a maximum quality destructive scan and OCR, and release it into the wild.

Also, one of the goals of the Random Library has always been to have the books most essential to stand a modern civilization up from nothing in case we knocked ourselves back to the stone age. Give me Mordor and the Random Library and you can keep your fucking ring, I'm smashing Gondor flat with planes and tanks and guns and mechanized infantry, from first fucking principles.




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