{"id":84725,"date":"2023-12-31T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=84725"},"modified":"2023-10-06T09:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:32:05","slug":"this-library-has-every-book-ever-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/12\/31\/this-library-has-every-book-ever-published\/","title":{"rendered":"This library has every book ever published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZNVuIU6UUiM?si=kw_NDA80bjwVtnj_\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Tom Scott<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 11 Sept 2023<\/p>\n<p>The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK \u2014 and the only one that doesn&#8217;t pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That&#8217;s a lot of books to store, and the internet&#8217;s only making it worse. \u25a0 The BL: <a href=\"https:\/\/bl.uk\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/bl.uk<\/a> \u25a0 UK Web Archive: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webarchive.org.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.webarchive.org.uk\/<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at <a href=\"https:\/\/tomscott.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/tomscott.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>on Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomscott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and on Instagram as tomscottgo<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>@TomScottGo<\/strong><br \/>\n1 hour ago<br \/>\nThere are actually six legal deposit libraries for the UK: the others are in Edinburgh, Aberystwyth, Cambridge, Oxford, plus the Trinity College Library in Ireland. But while the others can ask for works, the BL is the only one that doesn&#8217;t (and can&#8217;t) pick and choose what it takes. So for modern works, there&#8217;s usually more than one backup copy somewhere, just in case! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Scott Published 11 Sept 2023 The British Library is one of the six legal deposit libraries for the UK \u2014 and the only one that doesn&#8217;t pick and choose, or have to ask for copies. That&#8217;s a lot of books to store, and the internet&#8217;s only making it worse. \u25a0 The BL: https:\/\/bl.uk \u25a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4,7],"tags":[298,477,213],"class_list":["post-84725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-britain","category-history","tag-libraries","tag-magazines","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-m2x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84726,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725\/revisions\/84726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}