Thanks for collecting these, it's little things like this that make our movement possible.
I'm continually amazed at what was marketed to the general reader in the old days. Even as recently as the 1950s laymen were expected to handle difficult works, for example Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was a 1k-page mass market paperback. That would never happen today.
Seems to me any hope of a free society is dependent on the people's general ability to read and digest sophisticated material.
Of you can just use Printster. ( https://printster.in/ ) Cheap, effective, and don't ask too many (well, actually, any) questions about copyright. Discovered it when I returned to India from the US. I've used it to print a bunch of books and stuff.
Now, of course, don't use them to print something that's still under copyright but out of print — you'd have to deceive them to do that, because they don't check shit themselves, just tell you to make sure that everything you're given them to print is something you have the rights to print. And I'm sure you wouldn't *lie* just to save a few hundred/thousand bucks and print an out-of-print work whose rightsholders and estates are all gone and whose publishers have no interest in reprinting and won't lose anything if you print it yourself, right? Right?
Thanks for collecting these, it's little things like this that make our movement possible.
I'm continually amazed at what was marketed to the general reader in the old days. Even as recently as the 1950s laymen were expected to handle difficult works, for example Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" was a 1k-page mass market paperback. That would never happen today.
Seems to me any hope of a free society is dependent on the people's general ability to read and digest sophisticated material.
Great links. Have you searched for printed copies on ebay? Sometimes antiquarian books are surprisingly cheap.
Its something I'm keeping my eyes open for
Of you can just use Printster. ( https://printster.in/ ) Cheap, effective, and don't ask too many (well, actually, any) questions about copyright. Discovered it when I returned to India from the US. I've used it to print a bunch of books and stuff.
Now, of course, don't use them to print something that's still under copyright but out of print — you'd have to deceive them to do that, because they don't check shit themselves, just tell you to make sure that everything you're given them to print is something you have the rights to print. And I'm sure you wouldn't *lie* just to save a few hundred/thousand bucks and print an out-of-print work whose rightsholders and estates are all gone and whose publishers have no interest in reprinting and won't lose anything if you print it yourself, right? Right?