Thursday, August 11, 2011

TC Tidbit: Archivist Trying To Save One Each of Every Printed Book

Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of every Web page ever posted. Now the MIT-trained computer scientist and entrepreneur is expanding his effort to safeguard and share knowledge by trying to preserve a physical copy of every book ever published. (via Seattle Times).  Read more.

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