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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books:
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We tend to think the internet is permanent, but recent events remind us that our digital record is fragile & being shaped in real time.
Legal pressure, platform restrictions, and limits on tools like the Wayback Machine are already affecting what can be preserved and accessed.
📚 Read VANISHING CULTURE to see why it matters
📖 Download & read:
🛒 Purchase in print:
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