Manuals Plus: The Wrap-Up

Just a little over ten years ago, I was notified about a big warehouse of manuals that was going to be discarded in a few days. Bursting with energy, I drove down, discussed things with the owner, and, soliciting and ringing a very loud bell, assembled dozens of people and tens of thousands of dollars over the course of saving this collection from being discarded. Naturally, the next step would simply be to digitize them all.That took longer.As of a short time ago, a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive. It is, essentially, all the manuals that will be digitized or could be digitized, sans sets I’ll explain about shortly.In other words, the loop is now complete. Saved, stored, moved, now online for anyone to read.If somehow you missed this apparently core event of what people think of when they think of me, there’s so many weblog posts it’s almost weird to list them all:In Realtime: Saving 25,000 ManualsIn Realtime: Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000…