Except that by building a digital library on any platform, you’re buying in with the assumption that you’ll always be able to access what you bought. I’m in grad school out in the Bay Area, so my internet is amazing and I’m a prime target for this. But once I graduate, I could move... anywhere that offers me a good…

I’m a theater historian, so I loved these segments and was very impressed by their technical accuracy — the theaters really looked like what we know early electrified theaters to look like. There was a major gap, however: you would not have had a vaudeville act in New Orleans in 1899 go by without a blackface minstrel…