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Thanks Dan, doesn't make up for the time I spent reading The Da VInci Code but it helps.

We are excited to announce that the Kim Deacon Collection photographs are now digitized and available to the public on provlibdigital.org!

The Internet Archive’s lawyers also pointed to a Supreme Court decision, from the nineteen eighties, ruling that using a Sony Betamax video-cassette recorder to make a copy of a TV show was fair use. The Archive argued that its digital copies of print books similarly “improved the efficiency of delivering content to one entitled to receive the content” in a way that didn’t “unreasonably encroach on the commercial entitlements of the rights holder.” "

In fact, by fighting CDL, publishers are seeking to overstep the established boundaries of intellectual property law to exert continued control over an item that has already been purchased from them. And they are seeking to diminish the critical rights of readers to read the books they want without being subjected to censorship and surveillance. This is part and parcel with other attempts by digital publishers — of books, but also of films, video games, and other media — to turn media purchases into rentals, so as to extract endless money and private data from their customers.

I love Internet Archive so much! It often shows books that have these little scribblings on the side or copious annotations. Of course, by the end of August, I was too into my reading to take screenshots of all the books I read. But what an experience.

Hindu relief, Bali, Indonesia / Reliefbeeld op Bali, circa 1920-1935. Leiden University Libraries