I wish someone would support Project Runeberg or Project Gutenberg so they could scan them and make them _free_... John
Nikola Smolenski skrev:
John at Darkstar wrote:
In Norway a university has a large collection of newspapers, the collection is claimed to cover around 3000 running meters in the store house - without the norwegian and nordic newspapers, whats left is international newspapers from the last 150 years. If no one is coming up with a solution the collection is going to be destructed (actually burned)
I think the best thing to do is to scan them and make them publicly available. Of course neither I or WM Norway can set forth to do such a task, but if there should be some wealthy person out there that might be able to involve himself in such a task, I think it would be a very worthy gift to the mankind (where is the women!) to do such a thing.
Google might be interested. In principle, they will scan for Google Books everything you send them that is out of copyright. Also, perhaps the Million Book Project. Maybe descendants of owners, editors, or journalists of these newspapers will be interested to help too.
I'll notify some people.
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