eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed
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eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed
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Re: eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed
#2The collection is still available on the Internet Archive, for at least a random sample of books I tried to access, even the Kindle downloads:
https://web.archive.org/web/20190203233001/https://ebooks.ad...
It is a little sad that the University didn't offer up a torrent or host a zip file of the full collection.
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#3I wonder why it closed. It does seem a shame.
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#4Very disappointing.
I'd only recently discovered this through the collection of Schopenhauer essays offered on the site (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386663). Both the selection and presentation were excellent.
I'd also very much like to know the reason for the closure (and have inquired via email).
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#5Many thanks to the persons at U. Adelaide who shouldered this burden for over twenty years.
It was gratefully appreciated.
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#6Very disappointing. I'd only recently discovered this through the collection of Schopenhauer essays offered on the site (see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21386663 ). Both the selection and presentation were excellent. I'd also very much like to know the reason for the closure (and have inquired via email).
Same, the presentation was so good. I was going to use them in some examples of good long form text sharing as it's such a strong contrast to the sh*t medium etc throw on all their content
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#7The collection is still available on the Internet Archive, for at least a random sample of books I tried to access, even the Kindle downloads: https://web.archive.org/web/20190203233001/https://ebooks.ad... It is a little sad that the University didn't offer up a torrent or host a zip file of the full collection.
The Internet Archive can serve up the content via torrent natively. No need to duplicate effort.
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#8Such a small collection. It's incredible that no governments are stepping up to preserve humanity's and their country's knowledge as a digital library.
/r/datahoarder is currently seeding 2.5 million books, if anyone is interested in starting their own library. With a little SQL work you can have the world's knowledge on a single 8TB.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library...
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#9Such a small collection. It's incredible that no governments are stepping up to preserve humanity's and their country's knowledge as a digital library. /r/datahoarder is currently seeding 2.5 million books, if anyone is interested in starting their own library. With a little SQL work you can have the world's knowledge on a single 8TB. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library...
I propose that the barrier to a citizen advocating for their government to support the Internet Archive and its endeavors is exceedingly low (through grants and other patronage mechanisms), and the only resource necessary is the time to advocate and perhaps some postage or a mobile phone for calls.
The infrastructure exists (The Archive), it just needs more support to scale for depth (storage) and breadth (distributed web for durability).
Re: eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed
#10Such a small collection. It's incredible that no governments are stepping up to preserve humanity's and their country's knowledge as a digital library. /r/datahoarder is currently seeding 2.5 million books, if anyone is interested in starting their own library. With a little SQL work you can have the world's knowledge on a single 8TB. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library...
This is what the Library of Congress has been doing for at least a decade...except that it also stores the originals where possible. It is the largest library in the world in terms of physical documents (over 167 million physical documents) and one of the largest in terms of digital copies.
And not just of American works, but works from all around the globe.