David Rothman writes “”Who wants to read old books?” an education lobbyist asked me some months ago when I was trying to get her to speak out against the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
But then Distributed Proofreaders–which has reached Distinct Book Number 5050 and yesterday put online “50 diverse and significant written works consisting of over 13,000 pages” in celebration of 5,000+ landmark–isn’t about being in vogue. It’s about preserving literature and history. More at TeleRead“
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