Post Ad6vKAKN2cwIJYoIng by bookish@historians.social
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 (DIR) Post #Ad6izZEG43pQ0uMYJE by brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
       2023-12-23T17:06:10Z
       
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       "Books as Disease Carriers 1880-1920"   Previous attacks on libraries come to light by those describing what is happening to the @internetarchive  in amicus briefs.   this is a new one for me.https://archive.org/details/sim_information-culture_summer-1988_23_3/page/281/mode/1up?q=%22Books+as+Disease+Carriers%22
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad6jjTkwkD1GMRXqNs by hopeward@sfba.social
       2023-12-23T17:13:58Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle Yeah, that was a weird moment in history, wasn’t it? Misinformation isn’t a new problem…
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad6vKAKN2cwIJYoIng by bookish@historians.social
       2023-12-23T19:21:41Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle @internetarchive A Glasgow library at the end of the 19th century accuses patrons "afflicted" with the "unclean habit" of wetting a finger to turn the pages are subjecting themselves to ingesting “deposits of other fingers wetted in other mouths." And in 1894, the British novelist Rhoda Broughton warned library patrons against fiction like her own, which she deemed likelier than more serious genres “to have been thumbed and read by convalescent scarlet fevers and mumps."