I hope you're all preserving as many good books as you can

Digital can be manipulated very easily to rewrite history among other things.

You need older text versions before the NWO coming out party.

The Gutenberg Digital Library will be inaccessible
and it will be worse than losing The Library of Alexandria.

Been telling for 20 years, stay well all👍🏿

Before long it'll be Jim that cleverly conned Tom Sawyer into painting that fence. Amazon has been caught removing books from their customer's collection, how much longer before they simply 'upgrade' to the latest version? Project Gutenberg depends on volunteer work, all they need is a brigade of volunteers with the correct social views to change things.

Physical texts are much harder to change.

good idea

Not just textbooks but professional texts as well.

I've picked up older engineering handbooks (including one that was recommended by Robert Heinlein), mathematical tables, Mellor's Inorganic Chemistry, the Merck Manual, Remington's Practice of Pharmacy. Yes, they are obsolete in today's world but they are reproducible in a world that has reverted to a more primitive state. I still have computer texts that think in terms of discrete components, not integrated circuits. That kind of technology stands a chance of being rebuilt first.

You find these texts in library sales and estate sales. No one else wants them so you can pick them up for $0.50 to $1.00. Sit back with them on evenings and leaf through them. You'll start to pick up on key ideas and jargon. You'll find things that pique your interest and you'll go back to your textbooks and learn what you need to follow along. A great way to teach yourself.

My theory is that even if I can't provide a solution from my library, someeone else might be able to. Being a broad spectrum 'independent librarian' might be the solution to future problems when everyone else is dedicated to LGBTwhatever problems.
And I might see pitchforks and torches. Just upgraded my defenses.

Excellent idea.

Hahahahhahah

So naive.

They can digitally “edit” old books in seconds

That was the point of digitizing libraries


To CHANGE HISTORY

Another thing that might be useful is a table of equations and physical constants. A lot of those constants took a long time to measure accurately.

Also, tables of logarithms, etc.

Also data tables. For example, material properties such as Young's modulus, density, melting & boiling points, etc. Science books will contain some, but the more data one has, the better.

There are a lot of CRC texts that have this information, many of which are on my shelf. I'm not the only one, there are so many others who have these tables ready for use. I am only one. What we have to do is determine how this information is accessed. Bring your noncatalog requests, I can point you to the right volumes and wait until you are done. No lending priveliges. Hot tea, warm lights. yes. But no lending of volumes.

If it came to a collapse scenario, I think making copies would be useful.

I would be the first one to say yes but by the time we are at the point of making copies, we are at the point of making copies obsolete. It's a slippery slope that we approach.