#library

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Good News!

The Imperial Library of Trantor is back.

http://kx5thpx2olielkihfyo4jgjqfb7zx7wxr3sd4xzt26ochei4m6f7tayd.onion/search/

No JavaScript required. No registration required.

Tor Browser or another browser that can use Tor is required.

There has been a lot of news recently about Z-Library and its problems, but the Imperial Library has always been better because it requires no registration. It's more private. It also claims 1479907 books. These books are in many different languages. English and German are popular, but I also see Italian and French.

#library #library #imperial-library-of-trantor #book #books #ebook #ebooks #free #tor #free-books #open-library #english #german #french

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Z-Library domains are seized and pirate book site is dead

Well, not quite.

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/z-library-domains-are-seized-and-pirate-book-site-is-dead

The pirate site is effectively dead right now, since all of their DNS servers have also been seized. It remains to be seen if they will go back online with new domains or if they will fade away into nothingness.

Thing is: .onion domain names don't use DNS. The Tor network, itself, takes care of routing. The browser doesn't learn the site's IP address, and the site doesn't learn the browser's IP address.

With the Tor Browser, you can access Z-Library at this URL.

http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion/


In related news: The Imperial Library of Trantor is having severe problems. Some weeks ago it went down. Then it returned, but with no books in its catalog (It had hundreds of thousands.) Today, the server is down again. The librarian there has a name that might be Russian, so Putin's government might be the problem. Here's the Imperial Library's URL.

http://kx5thpx2olielkihfyo4jgjqfb7zx7wxr3sd4xzt26ochei4m6f7tayd.onion/

Maybe its down because he's restoring his collection. Or maybe the truth is worse than that.


The Free Book Library on I2P is still up, but it hasn't added any new books since September 19, 2021.

http://ebooks.i2p/

You need to be running I2P to access this site.

#books #ebooks #e-books #e-book #library #bootleg-books #pirate #pirate-library #z-library #imperial-library-of-trantor #libraries #free-books #tor #onionland #piracy #free-book-library #i2p

nadloriot@diaspora.psyco.fr

Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Bosnie-Herzégovine

Devant l'entrée, une plaque commémorative :

C'est à cet endroit que des criminels serbes ont mis le feu, dans la nuit du 25 au 26 août 1992, à la bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Bosnie-Herzégovine. Plus de deux millions de livres, de périodiques et de documents ont disparu dans les flammes. N'oubliez pas, souvenez-vous et avertissez !

Un article paru dans le Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France en 1997 :
https://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1997-06-0072-007
extrait:

Une dévastation systématique du patrimoine bosniaque
Ainsi, un ensemble inestimable de documents témoignant du patrimoine et de l’histoire commune des différentes communautés bosniaques a été anéanti. Si la destruction de la Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Sarajevo évoque des tragédies anciennes, comme celle d’Alexandrie, ou les ravages des guerres mondiales, elle est aussi devenue le symbole de la dévastation systématique du patrimoine bosniaque.
Car cet anéantissement n’est que l’élément le plus spectaculaire de ce que l’on a pu dénommer un « mémoricide », caractérisant la politique désormais trop fameuse du « nettoyage ethnique » qui s’est accompagnée, dans tout le pays, d’une politique délibérée d’élimination du patrimoine écrit et architectural témoignant de la vie commune antérieure, et des droits des populations chassées : destruction d’institutions culturelles, d’édifices religieux (près d’un millier de mosquées, de nombreuses églises catholiques), destruction de quartiers et de villages entiers, de cadastres et d’archives. Les principaux responsables de cette politique ont été inculpés de génocide et crimes contre l’humanité par le Tribunal pénal international de La Haye.

In front of the entrance, a commemorative plaque:

On this place Serbian criminals on the night of 25-26 August 1992 set on fire National and University's Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina . Over 2 millions of books, periodicals and documents vanished in the flame. Do not forget, remember and warn!

An article published in the Bulletin des Bibliothèques de France in 1997:
https://bbf.enssib.fr/consulter/bbf-1997-06-0072-007
extract:

A systematic devastation of the Bosnian heritage
Thus, an invaluable collection of documents testifying to the heritage and common history of the different Bosnian communities was destroyed. If the destruction of the National and University Library in Sarajevo evokes ancient tragedies, such as that of Alexandria, or the ravages of the world wars, it has also become the symbol of the systematic devastation of Bosnian heritage.
For this annihilation is only the most spectacular element of what has been called a "memorialization", characterizing the now too famous policy of "ethnic cleansing" which has been accompanied, throughout the country, by a deliberate policy of eliminating the written and architectural heritage testifying to the previous common life, and to the rights of the displaced populations: destruction of cultural institutions, religious buildings (nearly a thousand mosques, many Catholic churches), destruction of entire neighbourhoods and villages, cadastres and archives. The main perpetrators of this policy have been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague.

(translated with DeepL)

https://beautifullibraries.wordpress.com/2016/06/09/bibliotheque-nationale-et-universitaire-de-bosnie-herzegovine-sarajevo-bosnie-herzegovine/

https://www.vijecnica.ba/en/article/21/war-suffering

#bibliothèque #library #bosnie #bosnia #sarajevo #vendredilecture #war #guerre #crime #mémoire #memory #patrimoine #patrimony #photo #photographie #photography

ramil_rodaje@diasp.org
christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

Micro SF/F stories on Twitter: ""It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good library, must be in want of more books."
The dragon looked smug, as if they had said something clever.
"True," said the knight, hefting his lance.
"But those belong to the town library. Return them!""

#books #library

https://twitter.com/MicroSFF/status/1562891106177925122

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Remember that lawsuit to destroy the Internet Archive?

If public libraries didn't already exist, publishers would never allow them.

It's pretty much the same for free public education. If it didn't already exist, it would never be allowed.

https://torrentfreak.com/publishers-internet-archive-both-seek-piracy-lawsuit-win-without-full-trial-220614/

#internet #archive #internet-archive #copyright #monopoly #monopolies #books #publishing #publishers #freedom #liberty #free-culture #library #libraries #book-lending