The Cincinnati Public Library is a fantastic place. One of those things that, if it didn’t exist, wouldn’t seem possible to invent
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it’s like Uber, except for books, and it’s free, but has a viable funding model and pays a living wage to trained professionals
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It was weird to eventually realize that it is literally impossible to create a public place on the web. Maybe on Usenet, a place whose content more or less belonged to no one and everyone and we all agreed to sync. But someone owns every web page and server.
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North of the Valley, but there’s Kindle Unlimited. Except has fewer books than my library and costs £8 a month. So… true.
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They’d build the Zuckerberg Memorial Intent Mining Center.
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There is the Internet Archive, which does all that except for the downtown part.
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...because there’s no profit in it.
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Google has built the largest library in history, and it wants to open it to everyone in the world, because Brin and Page think it is supremely important. Publishers have nailed it shut.
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"public library"? like an object library?
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No, dude, it's like Uber ... but for books! Yeah, except they're centrally managed, you know, like a blockchain. Totally.
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