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Yeah, I hadn't thought about their abandoned effort to scan every book and archived newspaper in the world in a while, but I bet they're regretting now that they didn't finish. A non-trivial amount of that physical media has been tossed or degraded by underfunded libraries since then. And it's more valuable to them now that it ever was.


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