Internet Archive’s Tweets

Feb 6, 2021

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize a book. We never destroy a book by cutting off its binding. Instead, we digitize it the hard way--one page at a time. #digitalbooks

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4 more days to support a decentralized #DWebCamp…this one in an offline village in Brazil. Give to this

@gitcoin

DEI grant and trigger 24x in grant $. Our Brazil node needs so little to do so much with offline-first, P2P protocols like

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Wendy Hanamura

@whanamura

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Have a little ETH? Help our friends at Coolab Brazil, Tania, Huire & Luandro as they plan #DWebCamp Brazil for April 2023. Thru this DEI @gitcoin grant, right now a $1 donation unleashes $24 in matching funds! $$ to help bring P-2-P tech to offline places gitcoin.co/grants/5845/dw

Anyone have an Elephant Memory Systems sticker on your floppy disk storage box?

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@Walskaar

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The Secrets of Perfect Memory archive.org/details/elepha "Promotional book by Elephant Memory Systems describing floppy disks" @internetarchive

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We've archived over 737 billion web pages in our #WaybackMachine. Watch the video to find out why archive.org/web/ #archivists

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archive.org/details/wonder

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The illustrations in this 1900 edition of #TheWonderfulWizardofOz are so gorgeous

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Library Futures

@library_futures

Here's an example from the field of just the kind of costs and contracts we talk about: $632 rent for one ebook for one user does nothing to promote education, much less the progress of science and the useful arts.

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Joanna M-K

@JoannaMesser

· Sep 15

Yesterday I tried to get an ebook license for Freire’s classic “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” for our community college library. It’s assigned in our professional development student equity certificate program. A 1-user license costs $632 for our institution. #ebookSOS

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Walled Culture

@walledculture

Sep 17

For his upcoming #WalledCulture - the Book

@glynmoody

not only looked at the facts but also drew on the experience & thoughts from people on the ground through our podcasts 2️⃣

Sept release: Pre-order your paperback or sit tight for the free ebook

archive.org/details/argume #argentiniantango #EmpoweringLibraries

Sep 17

Our collection of Argentinian tango records has an amazing story behind it

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archive.org/details/gd73-0 #deadheads

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One of the most popular concert recordings in our Live Music Archive - #GratefulDead at the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium in 1973

Hear perspectives on the #InternetArchive lawsuit from authors, academics and legal experts in this

@Slate

piece: slate.com/technology/202 #EmpoweringLibraries

Uncommon Ephemera

@uncommnephemera

NEWLY RELEASED at the

: This 1984 #British children's music instruction #cassette is notable for its exhaustively-comprehensive instruction of simple sing-a-longs, and that the vocalists sound like a slightly-more-tolerable Human League. archive.org/details/uncomm

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NY Society Library

@nysoclib

· Sep 16

Events are coming in hot! Next week is jammed pack with a new Prompt! instructor (@harlemwriters), a Medieval #HistoricalFiction book talk, and a conversation with the @internetarchive! buff.ly/2It2HI7 & buff.ly/2VJOvRl (for Children's / YA) #librarylife

PE-APA Journal (Open Access)

@PEAPA_web

We are proud to share the stories behind the paleoherpetological collections and institutions of Argentina. You can find the entire volume on the History of Paleoherpetology in Argentina in our archive records in the