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Internet Archive founder desires to collect every book ever published

Not depressed enough yet concerning the impending death of print ? This is able to help: Brewster Kahle, the man behind the net Archive, is within the means of gathering together every book ever published for safe storage against a future where the superiority of digital media has utterly devalued physical texts — it is a perhaps unreachable goal, he admits, but Kahle’s warehouse is currently at 500,000 books and growing fast. The Associated Press describes the undertaking as something more similar to The Svalbard Global Seed Vault than the Library of Congress — these books aren’t being saved for lending, they’re being stored for the long run. In case you are reading this Brewster, we propose signing up for an Amazon Prime account. Those shipping fees can really add up fast.

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