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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

In 2009 he says, “Today we rely on digitization , even though digital copies are more vulnerable than microfilm to decay and obsolescence.”
In 2023 I think that is an extreme exaggeration.

I feel like I wasted my time reading the first two (of three) sections…. It’s basically a detailed description of the author’s desire to disseminate academic info. for researchers via e-books… in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Twenty years later it’s virtually obsolete.

He appears to be focused primarily in academics and research libraries.

I’m hoping this whole book isn’t a diatribe against “Google Book Search” (which has evolved into Google Play… hence the “obsolete” info….)

War of public vs. private use of books on the Internet: Line clearly drawn pro-open access and anti-private interest.
I predict that much of the first two sections of this will be mostly obsolete.