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Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the @waybackmachine.

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Internet Archive @internetarchive Aug 25

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/mee…

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With the rerelease of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, take a trip back to where it all began: the game's original 1998 website: web.archive.org/web/1998121203…

A little internet nostalgia, courtesy of the @waybackmachine. 🗡️

Internet Archive @internetarchive 1d

Digital storytelling doesn’t have to follow a straight line. 🧶 Tapestries, a new digital storytelling tool, lets you bring text, images, audio and video together on a shared digital canvas.

Create dynamic, interconnected stories, curate digital materials and preserve the things that matter, all on your own terms.

Learn more 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/10/29/wea…

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Two stacked screenshots. The top has a sage green background, the yellow title “Exploring Seed Catalogs at the Internet Archive,” and rows of vintage seed catalog covers labeled Flowers, Fruits and Vegetables. The bottom has a black background and white text reading “Proposition: That the American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro,” with video stills, portraits, book covers and web pages about the 1965 Baldwin and Buckley debate.

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Film preserves far more than movies. Home movies and "useful cinema" can document everyday life, work, education, and communities, yet much of this material remains at risk of decay or loss. 🎞️

Archivist and filmmaker Rick Prelinger makes the case for scanning films so they can be preserved, shared, and studied. 📽️

📚 Read "No Film Left Unscanned" in VANISHING CULTURE from the Internet Archive.

📖 Download & read, FREE:
archive.org/details/vanish…

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Greenish-black graphic for the Vanishing Culture series with the headline 'Could your attic hold the most important film footage no one's ever seen?' and a quote from Rick Prelinger, Archivist and Filmmaker: 'Most still live with the families that made them ... all vulnerable to deterioration.' A column of pixels dissolves beside the quote.

Light green-gray graphic quoting Rick Prelinger, Archivist and filmmaker, for the Vanishing Culture series, with the quote 'Of all films, home movies are the closest to our hearts, the most charismatic, the most fascinating—and they are in the greatest jeopardy.' Pixelated greenish-black bars sit above and below the text.

Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.

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Libraries are losing control over access to the books they buy. Restrictive eBook licenses mean higher costs, shorter lending periods, and fewer options for preservation.

Can state laws change the terms? Kyle K. Courtney, Juliya Ziskina & Deborah Schander discuss the fight for fairer contracts in WILL STATE LAW SOLVE THE LIBRARY EBOOK CRISIS? on the Future Knowledge #podcast. 🎧

futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/will-…

@KyleKCourtney @jziskina

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