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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

I got an art book with recipes for mixing colours. You have no idea what a help that is, and something that I haven’t seen before. It was pure luck I scored that at the op shop.

It’s so fucked you can’t share and archive resources. If it wasn’t a crime I would be a volunteer archivist scanning or photographing rare or important books and uploading them. Just so things don’t disappear when they go out of print and physical copies dwindle.

I’ve also missed out on getting the Morpho books because I didn’t want to click a random link on social media to download them and now they’ll be gone off the Internet Archive.

[–] Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Open Library has scans of older books online.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks, I’ll check it out

Just concerned about the direction of this… there’s increasing crackdowns on lower risk sharing and it’s affecting the grey areas I used to hang around

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Hathi Trust also

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