fire at internet archive book scanning center!

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fire at internet archive book scanning center!

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very sad news today; internet archive lost valuable equipment due to a fire last night

https://blog.archive.org/2013/11/06/sca ... p-rebuild/

donate for rebuild scanning center!
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Re: fire at internet archive book scanning center!

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That room was full of Scribe scanners - you can see the frames in the pictures on this page http://richmondsfblog.com/2013/11/06/pa ... ning-fire/

My heart goes out to the Archive - this is a terrible loss for them and I wish them all the best in getting back up to speed as soon as possible.
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