/sci/ - Science & Math

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the articles headline is "correct", but it is way more mundane that what it implies
>they are removing old books to memoryhole the past so the brainwashing is easier
instead it is
>a bullshit bureocracy order which wants to replace old damaged books with new copies
basically the library has a budget for books and they started to actually follow the rules and now they bin any book older than X years even if it is in good condition. my guess is that some politicians friend owns book printing company so they can steal some tax payers money.

so even if book is from 1950, it can still be found in the library, it just needs to be reprinted. and yes ofc some books simply arent avaiable in reprints, but that is caused either by copyright issues or lack of demand. so in practice this will effectively remove some old obscure books from library shelves forever, but its not like this wasnt happening all the fucking time. all libraries have cycles where they dispose of old books which are either physically falling apart or nobody borrowed them for last X years.

pic very much related. a book "lost" to time, only avaiable because google / internet archive scanned it and uploaded it online illegally at the time.
https://archive.org/details/newphysiognom00well