jenroses:

lyrium:

how have i never heard of archive.org until today.. it’s an internet library that functions just like a real one, as in you borrow the books for 2 weeks and then they are returned to the archive. you can dl pdfs as well, but you’ll lose access after the 2 week period. it’s all free tho, literally just like a real library. i was searching for a cheap copy of this serial murder book from the 90s for my thesis and i found it for free on here. there’s like.. no gimmick at all? i’m so amazed. i literally just signed up and now i’m reading a super hq scan of this book for free. i love libraries.

Calling archive.org a lending library misses like, 95% of the point of having a deep database of most of the internet that goes back like, 22+ years. If you ever get an expired link, you put it there, and you’ve got a decent chance of being able to see the vanished page, in all its iterations. 

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