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I have two self-published books with ISBNs. Neither of them has the details in the 1st place submission (I assume it won’t be in any other as well?).
One was published on Feb 23 and the other on Dec 24. I had hoped at least the older one would be there. Does anyone know why they are not?
The ISBNs:
- 9786500718836
- 9786501276830
I would like to have had a go at this but you often only find out about these things when winners are announced.
I feel like visualizations of large datasets which are viewer-directed (i.e. they want you to "explore" the data instead of trying to tell you something specific about it or communicate a narrative) are often "pretty" but never particularly enlightening. I feel like that holds true for these in particular.
- publisher - assigned title - (roughly) order of publication
That's all that they communicate --- there is no hierarchy here to aid in discovery or to organize the content (and further complicating things, the same text may appear multiple times in a different binding --- a differentiation which is immaterial to an e-book).
The elephant in the room of course is the matter that "Anna's Archive" is not a legitimate book repository, but a piracy site, so what they are showcasing is how compleat (and brazen) their theft (and attendant lack of compensation) is.
This would be far more interesting if it were based on an hierarchical system such as LoC, and instead afforded an interface for accessing legitimately available books as are available from https://www.gutenberg.org/ or listed at: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ or worked on at: https://www.wikibooks.org/
My most sincere love to all shadow libraries out there, you're doing god's work.
They do half of the work (which is a helluva lot)... the other half is done by the volunteers that digitize books. I was looking at my country's "shelve" and it's so sad to see so many missing titles. I almost wanted to go to my local livrary and digitize sone of them. The old ones that are out of print and imposible to acquire right now... So much knowledge lost.
I have no idea whats on the site as my provider blocks it because European sanctions against Russia as this is on of the RussiaToday sites.
Judging by your profile location being in the netherlands, I think you are confusing the generic Ziggo ISP blocked page[1], where it lists Russia Today and Sputnik News and then in another post ThePirateBay In this case, the ISP blocked it because the website is anna's archive [2], which was blocked around a year ago, but they have not made a post about that. If you put "pcm." in front of the link it will work (for n…
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Judging by your profile location being in the netherlands, I think you are confusing the generic Ziggo ISP blocked page[1], where it lists Russia Today and Sputnik News and then in another post ThePirateBay In this case, the ISP blocked it because the website is anna's archive [2], which was blocked around a year ago, but they have not made a post about that. If you put "pcm." in front of the link it will work (for n…
Seems that editing is not possible due to the negative point I gathered; which is weird as I just reported that I can not watch it. People seem to view everything though a political lens now. But thank you for your information; I saw the post.
Noob here, but can someone explain like im fivr, why this is important? It looks beautiful nevertheless
I'll start off by quoting the winning submission. Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many books as possible. One shadow library, Anna’s Archive (which I will not lin…
Also what do you mean by unassigned?
I feel like visualizations of large datasets which are viewer-directed (i.e. they want you to "explore" the data instead of trying to tell you something specific about it or communicate a narrative) are often "pretty" but never particularly enlightening. I feel like that holds true for these in particular.
The thing is, ISBNs map to: - publisher - assigned title - (roughly) order of publication That's all that they communicate --- there is no hierarchy here to aid in discovery or to organize the content (and further complicating things, the same text may appear multiple times in a different binding --- a differentiation which is immaterial to an e-book). The elephant in the room of course is the matter that "Anna's Arc…
I assume the task isn't just to visualize isbns literally. Presumably you are allowed to cross reference with other data.
> The elephant in the room of course is the matter that "Anna's Archive" is not a legitimate book repository, but a piracy site,
I think its pretty clear that the target audience doesn't care. I don't think the target audience holding differing political views is really a valid critcism of the project. It should be evaluated in the context and audience it was created for.
Noob here, but can someone explain like im fivr, why this is important? It looks beautiful nevertheless
I'll start off by quoting the winning submission. Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digital age, it might actually be possible to create a comprehensive collection of all human writing that meets certain criteria. That’s what shadow libraries do - collect and share as many books as possible. One shadow library, Anna’s Archive (which I will not lin…