Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
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Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
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#2> Now it is the chance for libraries and citizens who have been reticent to scan works beyond 1923, to push forward to 1941, and the Internet Archive will host them.
If individuals have private scans of rare books (1923 - 1941), how should these scans be delivered to Internet Archive for hosting?
Does "not being sold" mean out of print? Used, out-of-print books may still be sold. In fact, that's sometimes the only way to find a (possibly very expensive) copy for scanning and preservation.
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#3Despite their age, many of these books are still extremely readable even by young readers. I thumbed through Frog: the horse that couldn’t be tamed and really enjoyed it. The hand-drawn pictures in the book are also very readable and cool in a retro way. Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.
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#4I wish this was extended to all stuff under copyright - I think this could do great things in eliminating the abandoned works problem (in my opinion the largest issue of our current copyright regime).
Re: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
#5> Now it is the chance for libraries and citizens who have been reticent to scan works beyond 1923, to push forward to 1941, and the Internet Archive will host them. If individuals have private scans of rare books (1923 - 1941), how should these scans be delivered to Internet Archive for hosting? Does "not being sold" mean out of print? Used, out-of-print books may still be sold. In fact, that's sometimes the only wa…
You can upload them here: https://archive.org/upload/ (account required; free to create) and then send an email to the Internet Archive staff with the item identifier to have it added to Open Library.
If you don't mind shipping them the book(s):
Internet Archive, Attn: Book Donations, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94118
If you have a large donation of books, please call first to make arrangements: (415) 561-6767
Re: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
#6Does someone know the difference between what archive.org will take and what Gutenberg will take? It seems like they should just coalesce into one data set, right? I imagine archive.org can easily fit the Gutenberg data set; you can reasonably get it yourself via Kiwix.
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#7I wish this was extended to all stuff under copyright - I think this could do great things in eliminating the abandoned works problem (in my opinion the largest issue of our current copyright regime).
Anyone know what happened to the 2015 Orphan Works proposal by the US Copyright Office?
https://www.copyright.gov/orphan/reports/orphan-works2015.pd...
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#8Despite their age, many of these books are still extremely readable even by young readers. I thumbed through Frog: the horse that couldn’t be tamed and really enjoyed it. The hand-drawn pictures in the book are also very readable and cool in a retro way. Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.
There is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
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#9I'm ambivalent about all the weirdness about digital books. On the one hand, I kinda get why San Francisco Public Library has to "pretend" it can only loan out 20 "digital copies" of "The Subtle Art of not Giving a Fuck" at a time, because I guess if you could just instantly use the Libby app to throw it on your kindle and renew endlessly, why would anybody ever buy a book?
Still, it is "fake" prohibitions. There's literally nothing but arbitrary law and DRM preventing the free distribution of an already-digitized volume.
I really hope I get to live long enough to see society have to tackle the "oh fuck, currency as a concept is useless" problem, aka the steps leading up to post-scarcity. Highly highly unlikely, but I hope for it nonetheless. At the very least I'll get to see the "oh fuck what do we do with all these truck drivers" problem get tackled, probably.
Re: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated
#10Does someone know the difference between what archive.org will take and what Gutenberg will take? It seems like they should just coalesce into one data set, right? I imagine archive.org can easily fit the Gutenberg data set; you can reasonably get it yourself via Kiwix.
Archive.org can take and provide works that are still under copyright due to library provisions in the DMCA. Project Gutenberg only provides public domain works, but on a per country basis: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Copyright_FAQ#Copyr... (some works are in the public domain in Australia, but not yet in the US, for example)