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A really small, but still confusing number of people have said, with the confidence of a kid who's smoked two joints talking to a kid who has smoked one, that the Internet Archive either destroys books, or does this process and THEN destroys the books, and that's such a weird wrong fact to believe.

I heard that every book the Internet Archive digitizes is then eaten.

Saw one person said "Well, they SHOULD cut the spines, it's cheaper, just do it to the non-valuable ones." Dude, the Internet Archive has scanned in, quality checked, OCR'd and added 11,000 books. Yesterday. Where do they put the book judge in that process. archive.org/details/inte...

I mean, maybe the Archive could do a better job of just putting trumpets on top of the building to say what a miracle things are. Millions of hand-scanned books. You can click on them right now and start reading most of them. You can select text search and search inside. M I R A C L E S

As of a check I just barely did, they have 51,748,442 texts!

(I replied something like "Oh, cool, you don't have to do that!")

You are not the only person, and In your case you essentially said the internet archive does something universally abhorrent that strikes at the heart of the 30 year mission goals and intent. I had to find your note to disagree.