[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 20, Issue 4

[John Day]

This too is a problem. I have a book published in 1938 by the Vatican that comes unbound. I have not had it bound because the paper is so brittle I am afraid to. I keep it in a museum quality box.

> On May 8, 2021, at 18:42, Stephen Casner via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 8 May 2021, Jake Feinler via Internet-history wrote:
> 
>> And you will be amused to know that when I told a group at ISOC that
>> my wish was for a computer storage medium that lasted as long as
>> paper, everyone laughed and thought I was joking.  I wasn't.
> 
> You're right.  I remember a librarian (perhaps at the Huntington
> Library) saying that we have 500-year-old books that we can read
> perfectly, whereas we lose that ability for modern media.  Some more
> recent books printed on poor-quality paper also do not last, but for
> at least some of those it's no great loss.
> 
>                                                        -- Steve
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