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Originally Posted by topcat61
So I pay for newspapers.com, and I have no problem with that since the money I give them goes to upkeep of the site and finding and digitizing new papers.
I don't think I'd have an issue with paying for hobby information as well. We could always ask, and some journals from the 40's through the 70's such as Burdick's Card Collectors Bulletin and American Card Catalog probably didn't get their copyrights renewed if they had them at all -they might actually be in the public domain?
I think the more you as a collector can learn, the better off you'll be. I don't mince words when I say that I got a real crappy education, but card collecting and net54 has really helped reverse that. I thought maybe this idea would help other collectors too particularly since there are swaths of missing hobby history. Guys like Lionel Carter is one of the biggest reasons why I'm a writer today.
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I probably would too, if I needed it often enough. I just don't do many searches that turn up there.
They don't have much overlap between the archive the LOC has, which is free.
And they don't have the NYT which has its own archive. They are mostly paywall, but some brief articles that don't have any connection to any important history are free.
I really do think it's a worthwhile project. I just want people to go into it eyes open as to legalities, costs and how much effort it would take.
I have a scanner that can handle outsize items like the SCD magazines, but it's pretty slow and some of them are something like 200+ pages.