UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals “insane” say experts::Department hopes to save £4.5m a year by digitising – then binning – about 100m wills that date back 150 years

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    Why not digitize and still keep the originals?

    That’s where I’m at. Why not both? Redundancy is good,

    Paper copies are good to have till they’re no longer necessary (edit: and apparently these aren’t necessary anymore)

    Digital copies are also useful for obvious reasons

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      2 years ago

      They aren’t necessary, that’s the point.

      They want to preserve them as historical documents and the government is trying to cut storage costs.