![]() On the forum, a Flickr staff member confirmed the deletion: On a Flickr forum, fans of the Internet Archive Book Images account called the loss an unfathomable “destruction of knowledge.” One user wrote: the deletion “really impacted my life,” while another wrote “to find all these golden needles in the same haystack a second time again seems impossible.” The deletion was swift and quiet, but users soon noticed. before 1926 is in the public domain, and just because a book has been collecting dust for a few centuries, doesn’t mean it’s boring.īut a few weeks ago, poof! The account disappeared. The crowdsourced metadata allowed users to effectively search for the items they wanted - it’s far more efficient to search a keyword than to sift through pages, and pages, of scans.įrom century-old fairy tales to tomes about falling in love via telegraph wires, old books provide both archival value and endless entertainment. ![]() Its repository of quirky vintage illustrations, fascinating preserved posters, and old books numbers over 5 million and users created personal galleries and added tags. ![]() The Internet Archive’s Book Images account on Flickr started in 2014, and in its seven and a half years, it’s been a time portal to the past.
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