Brewster Kahle writes about the challenges of preserving e-books:
"Ever try to read a physical book passed down in your family from 100 years ago? Probably worked well. Ever try reading an ebook you paid for 10 years ago? Probably a different experience. From the leasing business model of mega publishers to physical device evolution to format obsolescence, digital books are fragile and threatened."
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A Scholarly Kitchen guest post "by Rachel Helps, the Wikipedian-in-residence at the Brigham Young University library. She was on the editorial board for the Wikijournal of Humanities from 2018 to 2020. She and her student employees create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the library’s collections":
Bethany Nowviskie reflects on 30 years of supporting digital humanities research, scholarship, teaching, and organizing at the University of Virginia:
Bethany Nowviskie , "Remarks (DH@30, UVa)", November 18, 2022, http://nowviskie.org/2022/remarks-dh30-uva/
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Article of interest:
"Everything dies, including information," MIT Technology Review, October 26, 2022, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/10/26/1061308/death-of-information-digitization/
"Digitization can help stem the tide of entropy, but it won’t stop it.
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