Safer in case of fire but what happens as technology changes?

Obama's Presidential Library won't have any books.

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Originally posted by Steve Miller:
Safer in case of fire but what happens as technology changes?

Wholesale reformatting/re-encoding of the digitized content.

We still suck at backward compatibility for executable software, but we're quite good at backward compatibility for most digitized media content now.

I thought all presidential libraries were private? I may have missed something, but I don't see what the big deal is here.

As a researcher, I would far prefer access to digitized information. I assume they will scan documents as well. And there's no guarantee that the documents given to any presidential library haven't already been edited/redacted and the salacious, illegal or otherwise juicy items deep-sixed. There's nothing about paper that says, "oh wow, this absolutely has to go to my presidential library."

What am I missing?

Can't help immediately associating to the natural difficulties of EVER putting together a Trump presidential library.

I mean, really, what? Digitized or not, a monumental megillah of tweets?

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I mean, really, what? Digitized or not, a monumental megillah of tweets?

Ha! A library of tweets!

A friend commenting on Individual 1's twitter feed:

"Have you read the latest from Twitler"?

It will be interesting when we see the Trump library to see whether the books already are all colored in…