[Foundation-l] Old newspapers going to destruction

[Andrew Whitworth]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Klaus Graf <klausgraf at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I fully disagree with Schlottmann.
>
> 1. Nicholas Baker has shown in its book "Double Fold"
> http://delicious.com/Klausgraf/doublefold that microfilms are not a
> substitution for the original newspapers. And digitization isn't, too.

This is probably true (I've never read that book, but the statement
makes sense), but given the option between digitization and burning,
or just straight burning, the former is the more attractive. I still
can't get my mind around the fact that burning the papers is the first
and preferred option here.

--Andrew Whitworth