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You can help build the library. 🏛️ Have digital materials you’re allowed to share? Upload them to the Internet Archive so other people can discover and use them. 📷 A photograph. 🎙️ A recording. 📄 A document. 💾 A piece of digital history. Upload your first item 👇 archive.org/upload 🧵

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Abby McD Schwartz
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How do you guarantee it won't be scraped for AI? I would love to pass along a few heirloom photo/diary entries to the world, but I don't want to see it used as a ChatGPT answer.

Macabre Hammer
@macabrehammer.bsky.social

What about community cookbooks? "Grandma's Kosher Recipes" from a synagogue in Vineland, NJ produced in 1960 I think. Along with that, family recipes scribbled on cards or note paper - can you produce a section for that? That would be Way Cool.

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Check out Katie Livingston’s essay & podcast episode about why it’s important to preserve local cookbooks: blog.archive.org/2026/07/08/v...

blog.archive.orgVanishing Culture Episode #2: The Stories Hidden in Cookbooks with Katie Livingston - Internet Archive BlogsFood is having a cultural moment. As America marks its 250th anniversary, new cookbooks celebrate endangered culinary traditions, UNESCO calls recipes "living heritage," and chefs are rediscovering ce...