ENCOURAGING: A modern internet eqivalent of the Library at Alexandria

Saturday, May 17, 2025

https://standardebooks.org/blog/a-kind-of-bolshevism-in-an-uncanny-bookshop

Free ebooks in this post

  •     The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley
  •     Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. Translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  •     The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism, by Bertrand Russell
  •     The Story of Utopias, by Lewis Mumford
  •     Disenchantment, by C. E. Montague

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Here’s a great resource for out of copyright books.  At a price everyone can afford  — free.  All the books I was supposed to read in high school and a few from grammar school.  This is like the Library at Alexandria before the fire.  A virtual treasure of dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) for free.  Stunning.

And yes, I have put my money where my mouth is and contributed. So in that way I’m biased.

Besides how else would I reread the Hardy Boys of my earliest reads.  Now if Heinlein’s copyright would ever expire my internet blogging / email life would be over.

Laugh!

No such luck for you poor “usual suspects”.

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