Scaled back so no two books share a page, the library still has 10 to the power of 4,677 books. Deagostini / Getty Images In his 1939 essay, “The Total Library,” the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ...

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“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost? The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital library, aiming to provide “universal access to all knowledge”. It started with a ...

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The Biodiversity Heritage Library is an invaluable online archive of historic texts on species living and lost supplied by the world’s leading museums and universities. Now its future is in doubt Some ...