Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
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http://blog.archive.org/2011/06/06/why-preserve-books-the-new-physical-archive-of-the-internet-archive/

Paper certainly endures more for far longer than digital media.

Easy redundancy and distribution should help digital media to survive longer.
But it needs maintenance.  It needs people interested in the content to always
make backup copies before the medium starts failing.  What if people are no
longer interested in such content?

Ink on paper may survive buried deep within dry sands of time, but harddrives
will be just old worn metal, its contents long lost...

that said, let archivers do it while I comfortably dig my digital copies in my
pocket... :)

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