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Double Fold
Nicholson Baker、Nicholsen Baker、N. Baker、Nicolson Baker · 初版 2001 年
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为什么值得读
- 指出纸质报刊其实远比人们预想的更经久耐用
- 披露图书馆为替换胶卷而销毁纸质珍本的荒谬
- 直陈早期数字化与影像化工程的缺陷与局限
“自 20 世纪 50 年代以来，我国图书馆一直奉行‘以毁促保’的政策：它们有系统地拆解收藏的原始合订报纸，切碎数十万册所谓的脆化书籍，并用缩微胶卷副本取而代之——这些胶卷难以阅读，完全丧失了原始纸张和插图的色彩与质感，而且随着时间的推移还会退化。半个世纪过去了，这项政策的后果触目惊心：美国大部分伟大报纸已不再有完整的版本存世。对历史学家和未来的
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……许多书籍因为某些扫描缺陷而“失传”。扫描技术越来越先进，所以我认为这个问题也在逐渐减少。Nicholson Baker 写过一本引人入胜的书叫《Double Fold》，他在书中指出，纸质书通常远比很多人想象的要耐用得多¹，而数字化和影像化项目存在显著的缺陷与局限性。图书管理员们当时……
…many books are "lost" because of some scanning fault Scanning processes are getting better and better, so I also think this is a diminishing problem. Nicholson Baker wrote a fascinating book called Double Fold in which he pointed out that paper books are typically much more durable than many people think¹, and that digitization and imaging projects have significant drawbacks and limitations. Librarians were…
Nicholson Baker 的《Double Fold》是一部极其深刻的论著，讨论了当图书馆为了用缩微胶卷“替代”装订报纸而将其销毁时，我们到底失去了什么。https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/15/reviews/010415.15gate...
Double Fold, by Nicholson Baker, is a remarkable discussion of what's lost when libraries destroy bound newspapers when they are "replaced" by microfilm. https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/15/reviews/010415.15gate...
……销毁了馆藏的大量内容，一旦缩微平片/胶卷被证明没有达到其营销宣传的效果，或者在执行不力的情况下，几乎没有任何挽回的余地。想要全面了解这一切，我推荐 Nicholson Baker 的《Double Fold》。
…destroy huge parts of their collections with little recourse once microfiche/film proved to not live up to its marketing claims or in cases where it was poorly implemented. I recommend Nicholson Baker’s “Double Fold” for a good account of all of this.
去读读《Double Fold》吧。读完会让你恨透图书管理员的。
Read Double Fold. It will make you hate librarians.
……很多书是用无酸纸印的，即使偶尔翻阅，也能保存几个世纪。关于纸张寿命的观察——比如 Nicholson Baker 在论战性质的《Double Fold》中所提出的——与我作为一个书商儿子的经历非常吻合。我父亲经常把上百年的老书卖给那些完全打算去读它们的人。我还记得曾经去拜访一位古籍……
…many books were printed on acid-free paper, and these are likely to survive for centuries, even with occasional use. The observations about paper's longevity in, for instance, Nicholson Baker's polemical Double Fold, tallies well with my experience as the son of a bookdealer. My father routinely sells books that are over a century old to people who fully expect to read them. And I remember visiting an antiquarian…
……美国报纸资源库（American Newspaper Repository）[2]，这是 Baker 创立的非营利组织。2004 年，这批馆藏搬到了杜克大学。——后来 Baker 在 2001 年就整件事出版了一本书，书名为《Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper》。《卫报》在 2002 年发表了对他的采访（见下方）[1] Paper Chase：https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/22/museums.re... [2] 来自存档……
…American Newspaper Repository [2] a non-profit organisation which Baker founded. In 2004, the collection moved to Duke University. - Baker went on to publish a book of the whole affair in 2001 called Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. The Guardian published an interview with him in 2002 (below) [1] Paper Chase: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/22/museums.re... [2] From an archived…