Collecting Every Book In The World, Twenty Thousand At A Time

Brewster Kahle, who’s expanding his archive to about 10 million books (and films): “We must keep the past even as we’re inventing a new future,” he said. “If the Library of Alexandria had made a copy of every book and sent it to India or China, we’d have the other works of Aristotle, the other plays of Euripides. One copy in one institution is not good enough.”