#library
Free Speech, Freedom of the Press & Fight for Economic & Racial Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPkudCYcwEo
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Open Libraries: How Long Will They Last
I noticed this article at Torrent Freak. https://torrentfreak.com/brein-cracks-down-on-open-directory-piracy-but-what-is-it-201115/
Seems there's a coming crackdown on Open Libraries. These are libraries you discover by searching for "index of" epub. For example
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%22index%20of%22%20epub
It works with other types of files as well: e.g., "index of" mp4.
If these are going to start disappearing, we might want to save what we can first. Here's a library with a fair amount of SF and crime fiction.
http://www.lesatkins.com/books/epubfiles/
Libraries on the Internet overlay networks are less easy to censor, as are torrents.
- http://xfmro77i3lixucja.onion/search/?q= The Imperial Library of Trantor
- http://127.0.0.1:43110/zeropub.bit/?page=1&sort=updated&lang=en zeropub
- http://ebooks.i2p/
#library #ebook #ebooks #books #sf #crime-fiction #downloads #file-sharing
The forest library
by Erik Johansson
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Improbable Libraries
Library in Muyinga, Burundi
Improbable Libraries, which documents unusual and visually striking libraries from across the globe, was Johnson's shot at bringing "the fun and entertaining side" of libraries back into a conversation that's become dominated by doom and gloom about their finances. "Both my parents are librarians," he explained, "so it's always been at the back of my mind." And despite the rise of eBooks, he believes that "in a world which is becoming gradually more virtual, physicality will become increasingly valued."
The Sir Duncan Rice Library at the University of Aberdeen
William Hakewill's traveling library
Soneva Kiri resort children's library, Thailand
The inner dome of the Soneva Kiri library, constructed from bamboo
The Bookbike of Tucson, Arizona
A Little Free Library in New York City
Dangling book homes at the Librairie Urbaine in Lyon, France
A popup library on Bondi Beach in Australia, courtesy of IKEA
The Children's Mobile Library of Mongolia, operated by author Jambyn Dashdondog
Marta Wengorovius' One, Two, Many library/art project fits just one reader
Raul Lemesoff's Weapon of Mass Instruction looks like a tank, but only delivers free books in Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch, in Kansas City, Missouri
The People's Library of the Occupy Wall Street protests, New York City
National Library of Norwegian digitizing its multi-hundred-thousand book collection, dating to Middle Ages
The National Library of Norway is digitizing its entire collection. The Norwegian Legal Deposit Act requires that all published content, in all media, be deposited with the National Library of Norway. The collection is also being expanded through purchases and gifts. The digital collection contains material dating from the Middle Ages up to the current day.
In parallel with digitizing of analogue material, the National Library of Norway is working to expand the scope of publications covered by legal digital deposit legislation. The Library wishes to receive the digital source of the publication and in this way expand collection’s digital content. The digitizing programme started in 2006. It is estimated that it will take 20–30 years for the entire collection to be digitized.
Something tells me there's a few good sagas in there somewhere ....
That's a bit of link disambiguation from The Verge, whose article is brief to the point of near uselessness, and a bit more at The Atlantic:
If you happen to be in Norway, as measured by your IP address, you will be able to access all 20th-century works, even those still under copyright. Non-copyrighted works from all time periods will be available for download.
Here in the States, we are struggling to make even a small percentage of English-language works accessible to the citizens of our fine country, despite the efforts of groups like the Digital Public Library of America, Hathi Trust, and (I dare say) Google.
Having been engaged in some pretty significant research projects myself, found the availability of online records HUGELY helpful (I just tracked down William Stanley Jevons's The Coal Question yesterday, as well as, incidentally, his mid-19th century economics textbook, will likely write about this more later), this brings joy to my cold, black heart. I do remember the days when research meant trekking to libraries (and not just local ones), and long hours spent in reading rooms, with crumbling hardcopy, poorly-scanned microfiche, and other limited technologies.
