John Mark Ockerbloom on Nostr: "My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. ...
"My beliefs are simple, and hardly radical: Libraries are critical infrastructure. Access to information is a human right. When you buy a book you should truly own it. When a library buys a book, they should be able to lend it. Readers should be able to read without any third parties spying over their shoulders, or preventing them from accessing the materials they have legally obtained." Molly White on what's all too often lost going from print to licensed ebooks:
https://www.citationneeded.news/hachette-v-internet-archive/Published at
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