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Case 1:05-cv-08136-DC Document 991-1 Filed 12/12/11 Page 19 of 110Op-Ed Contributor - A Library to Last Forever - NYTimes.comPage 1 of4HOME PAGE I TODY'S PAPER I VlDE MOST POLA TIMES TOPICS IeJ,i.w Uorkltm..,WORL! u.s. N.Y./REIONOpinionBUSll..'F TEOLOY SCIENCE! HEALTI l_~~.~_ OPINION ARTS SWL. TRAVEEDITORIAS COLUMNISTS CONTRIBUTORS LETERS THE PUBLIC EDITOR GLOBAL OPINIONSCrc AJI NYTmes.COLog 10 I Regl!ler Now~JOBS REAL ESTATE AUTOSOP-EO CDNTRJBUTORA Library to Last ForeverBy SERGEY BRINPubliwoc, OcotK e, 200Mountain View, Calif.TWTIERUNKEDINMore Arcles In OpInion"Enlarge This Image~~~-:~. --- ."'- ,;~\~ '-~,~;:~ :.. '.;" /-(.:;~"-I';J"''-'._ ,',.~ ",.,' '.~~( .-,,,~, -c-.,Related'-cJ-"HoII SLO""""Times Topks: Googlc Book ScrehI Sc'ECY BrinReaders' Comments,,,:.',gTIE fudaental reasons why theelectrc car has not attained thepopularity it deserves are (~) TheCOMMENTSfailure of the manufacturers toproperly educate the general public ,~,regarding the wonderfl utilty of theelectric; (2) The failure of (powercompanies) to make it eas to ownand operate the electtc by anadequate distnbution of charg and boosting stations.The early eleclrcs oflimited speed, range and utilityproduced popular impreions which stil exist. ~This quotation would hardly surprise anyone who followselectric vehicles. But it may be surprising to hear that inthe year when it was mitten thousands of electrc carswere produced and that year was nearly a century ago.Readers shared theirThis appeard in a 1916 isue of the journal Electricalthoughts on this article.Read All Commonl. (90)"World, which I found in Google Books, our searchablerepository of milions of books. It may seem strange tolook back a hundred years on a topic that is so contemporaiy, yet I often find that thepast has valuable lessons for the future. In this case, I was lucky - electric vehicles werestudied and wrtten about extensively early in tbe 20th century, and there ar manybooks on the subject from which to choose. Because books published before 1923 are inthe public domain, I am able to view them easily.('SIGN INTO E.~,""''',-AIER PAYS¡R~tv.. ,.~~LET'S DISCOVER-THEM!~-RElT N'SSABut the vast majority of books ever wrtten are not accessible to anyone except the mosttenacious reearchers at premier academic lihraries. Books wrtten afer 1923 quicklydisappear into a literary hlack hole. With rare exceptions, one can buy them only for thesmall number of years they are in print. Afer that, they are found only in a vanishingnumber of libraries and used book store. As the years pas, contracts get lost andforgotten, authors and publishers disappear, the rights holders become impossible totrckdown.Inevitably, the few remaining copies of the books are left to deteriorale slowly or are lostto fires, floods and other disasters. While I was at Stanford in 1998, floods damaged ordestroyed tens of thousands ofbooks. Unfortnately, such events are not uncoiion _ a MOST POPULARE-IlEO BLOGED SEACHEO VlEVlDhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/1 O/09/opinionlO9brin .htm i ?pagewanted=a II 12/8/2011