The magical library in the countryside, to be painfully explicit, does not exist.

And they should not even be needed. In many places the issue is solved at start. Copy or copies of each commercially produced book is send to national library. Which with tax payer money keeps an archive. Meaning that at least one copy exist for research purposes if needed.

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scarmig 17 hours ago | parent [-]

Unfortunately, that's not the case in the United States. The LOC only selects around half of published books to be permanently held. The rest are disposed of (usually returning them to the publisher, donating them to a library, or destroying them).

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fmajid 16 hours ago | parent [-]

They should send them to The Internet Archive instead.

	▲	FeloniousHam 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Why aren't we storming the Library of Congress? They are the real villains here.

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soperj 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How many times can you post the same thing in a thread?

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exe34 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The internet archive