… The British Library has 750 million pages of newsprint spanning 300 years, and although it digitises some four million pages a year, it’ll be 188 years at that pace before the whole collection is accessible on aniPad.
To keep the news rags of a bygone era in circulation, the library has built a storage facility in Yorkshire with a microclimate specially created for ageing newspapers: …
Siehe: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/09/start/a-new-place-for-very-old-news