[BC] Another public station bites the dust

[Mike McCarthy]

For someone close to the resources of a major library which houses a 
substantial reference or other collection of interest, that may be the 
case.  But in rural USA...which is about 80-85% of the geography in the US 
and over 95% worldwide, a digital version is better than no version what so 
ever.

MM

At 09:03 AM 6/27/2006 -0400, Rich Wood wrote
>------ At 11:11 PM 6/26/2006, Alan Kline wrote: -------
>
>>Who's going to digitize and organize the millions and millions of books for
>>that all-encompassing digital library?  More to the point, who's going to
>>pay for it, and would it really be less expensive than maintaining the
>>brick-and-mortar libraries? The simple logistics of organizing such a
>>massive effort are mind-numbing.
>
>It's already begun. The Gutenberg Project has already digitized about 
>17,000 books whose copyrights have expired. Their hope is to digitize 
>everything in print. This has been going on for years. Take a look at 
>www.gutenberg.org
>
>Except for research purposes, it does nothing for me. There's something 
>about the printed word on paper (not including supermarket tabloids) that 
>has an elegance digital will never equal.
>
>Rich
>
>Rich Wood
>Rich Wood Multimedia
>Phone: 413-454-3258
>
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