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In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books by David Streitfeld, New York Times, March 3, 2012. Article about Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive: "With a deep dedication to traditional printing - one of his sons is named Caslon, after the 18th-century type designer - he abhorred the notion of throwing out a book once it had been scanned. The volume that yielded the digital copy was special. And perhaps essential. What if, for example, digitization improves and we need to copy the books again? "Microfilm and microfiche were once a utopian vision of access to all information," Mr. Kahle noted, "but it turned out we were very glad we kept the books."

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