Hard copies of are good but there is an advantage of keeping digital copies; storage capacity. Physical books take up a lot of room if you have a lot of them but you can store huge libraries worth on a 1 TB drive. Just make sure you do it on an airgapped machine since OSes are becoming untrustworthy
Unless you have an archival quality copy of a book printed on acid free paper, you are out of luck.
Modern paperbacks and most hardbacks are printed on paper treated with aluminum sulfate. Over time the aluminum sulfate reacts with water in the air (humidity) to become aluminum oxide and sulfuric acid. The acid turns the pages yellow and eats the glue that holds the binding together. Single pages start to fall out, and eventually the paper becomes too yellow to read.
How long the process takes depends on the humidity of the environment, but almost all books will be heavily damaged after 20 years.
Almost all books go out of print forever after the death of the author. Only a tiny percentage of books stay in print after the author can no longer advocate for the books and is not writing more to make their back catalog relevant. 99% of all writing just ... disappears after a generation.
Want to change that? Start scanning books. Sort them by category and upload them in a Torrent. Textbooks, fiction, SF, whatever. You can fit a thousand OCR books in a torrent, and hopefully it will be persistent.
I once saw a “Catholic journal” that rated climate change as a higher political priority than abortion, it’s more like are there catholic journals are actually catholic.
Roald Dahl has been dead for nearly 33 years. What moral right do the owners of his work have to create a monopoly on it? What a joke current copyright law is.
That's not ironic that's standard procedure. If you take a hard look at almost every regulatory lawmaking, you'll see that almost all of it stiffles upstarting competition, because while it may be annoying for the bigboys it's almost always a hurdle to high for small startups with ideas that could disrupt the status quo.
Indeed. The original intent was to promote the arts by making sure an author wouldn't see their work immediately pirated.
Now the author's great-grandchildren are getting copyright protection ... an no incentive to create anything other than more extensions in the hope of getting more blood out of the stone.
That's ridiculous. Also, isn't mickey mouse soon coming up again to become public domain? I remember reading something like that a bit ago. But yeah, 100 years is ridiculous. I get having your children have the rights to something you have made, maybe even your grandchildren but the grandchildren of your grandchildren?you made enough money at that point with your works.
It is ridiculous. The intent of copyright, trademarks, and patents was to allow the creator to receive a profit for a period of time. The reason they expired after something like 20 years was to encourage the creator to keep creating rather than just have one big hit and rake in cash forever.
The original version of Mickey Mouse becomes public domain next year, but not to worry:
Even though the copyright will expire, Mickey Mouse is trademarked, which adds complications. The New York Times reported that trademarks do not expire over time like copyrights do. Essentially, this means that any use of the 1928 Mickey Mouse cannot include any elements that come later and cannot be confused as a Disney product.
It's also long enough for something to become a cultural object. A story read to you as a child that you might now be reading to your own, if you hadn't already.
Put on an eye patch, mutter "avast" and download the .epub or pdfs of the original. They've already started doing this with movies too. If you like it. Get the physical media.
Two words. Garage sales. We have storage tubs full to the brim of movies and tv series for pennies on the dollar.
We're coming up on "Kid's graduated - I'm brooming them off to college and turning their room into a home gym. Here's their PS5 and all their game discs for $50" season.
Are you aware of this happening to other books? I've heard that some books have been getting unfair bannings (To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Seuss books, etc.) but am not aware of changes to content like this. I'm very interested in getting uncensored hardcopies, so if you know of other cases, please share.
I remember in 2007 Amazon erased 1984 from Kindles due to a publisher pretending to have the rights to it.
Piracy is the only way to maintain purchased copies of content from here on out.
Hard copy works just fine still.
Hard copies of are good but there is an advantage of keeping digital copies; storage capacity. Physical books take up a lot of room if you have a lot of them but you can store huge libraries worth on a 1 TB drive. Just make sure you do it on an airgapped machine since OSes are becoming untrustworthy
Unless you have an archival quality copy of a book printed on acid free paper, you are out of luck.
Modern paperbacks and most hardbacks are printed on paper treated with aluminum sulfate. Over time the aluminum sulfate reacts with water in the air (humidity) to become aluminum oxide and sulfuric acid. The acid turns the pages yellow and eats the glue that holds the binding together. Single pages start to fall out, and eventually the paper becomes too yellow to read.
How long the process takes depends on the humidity of the environment, but almost all books will be heavily damaged after 20 years.
Almost all books go out of print forever after the death of the author. Only a tiny percentage of books stay in print after the author can no longer advocate for the books and is not writing more to make their back catalog relevant. 99% of all writing just ... disappears after a generation.
Want to change that? Start scanning books. Sort them by category and upload them in a Torrent. Textbooks, fiction, SF, whatever. You can fit a thousand OCR books in a torrent, and hopefully it will be persistent.
https://www.amazon.com.au/IRIS-5-PRO-Iriscan-Desk/dp/B07VGTG6ZG/
Bonus: the NYT published an opinion piece defending the censorship.
How the mighty have fallen.
I once saw a “Catholic journal” that rated climate change as a higher political priority than abortion, it’s more like are there catholic journals are actually catholic.
Crypto-jews exist BTW.
Roald Dahl has been dead for nearly 33 years. What moral right do the owners of his work have to create a monopoly on it? What a joke current copyright law is.
You can thank Disney for that. Every time their core characters start to enter public domain they lobby Congress to extend copyrights even longer.
They were either 20 years or the life of the author originally, I can't remember exactly. Now they last something like 100 years.
It's particularly ironic because much of Disney's success came from adapting works in the public domain, like fairy tales.
Wow, that's not just ironic. That's evil. They're like a reverse Ben Franklin, who didn't believe in patenting his inventions.
That's not ironic that's standard procedure. If you take a hard look at almost every regulatory lawmaking, you'll see that almost all of it stiffles upstarting competition, because while it may be annoying for the bigboys it's almost always a hurdle to high for small startups with ideas that could disrupt the status quo.
Indeed. The original intent was to promote the arts by making sure an author wouldn't see their work immediately pirated.
Now the author's great-grandchildren are getting copyright protection ... an no incentive to create anything other than more extensions in the hope of getting more blood out of the stone.
That's ridiculous. Also, isn't mickey mouse soon coming up again to become public domain? I remember reading something like that a bit ago. But yeah, 100 years is ridiculous. I get having your children have the rights to something you have made, maybe even your grandchildren but the grandchildren of your grandchildren?you made enough money at that point with your works.
It is ridiculous. The intent of copyright, trademarks, and patents was to allow the creator to receive a profit for a period of time. The reason they expired after something like 20 years was to encourage the creator to keep creating rather than just have one big hit and rake in cash forever.
The original version of Mickey Mouse becomes public domain next year, but not to worry:
It's also long enough for something to become a cultural object. A story read to you as a child that you might now be reading to your own, if you hadn't already.
Keeping any of your ebooks connected to some service like that is a fucking loser move.
He named the Jew, so this is personal for them.
Yeah they are erasing everyone who publicly didn't like them.
It used to be nothing. Oh, you don't like jews? I don't like carrots. You used to be allowed to (dis)like whom you wanted.
Ah so that's why PornHub's color is orange, it's cuz of all the carrots in the porn industry
They should sue. This isn't the product they paid for. This is usually called fraud.
Put on an eye patch, mutter "avast" and download the .epub or pdfs of the original. They've already started doing this with movies too. If you like it. Get the physical media.
Two words. Garage sales. We have storage tubs full to the brim of movies and tv series for pennies on the dollar.
We're coming up on "Kid's graduated - I'm brooming them off to college and turning their room into a home gym. Here's their PS5 and all their game discs for $50" season.
This is why "ebooks" are evil.
And why "you will own nothing" is sinister.
And why the subscription model is for punks.
Lol, people who use cloud services are retarded.
Hard copy is the only way.
Sheeit I didn't realize there was a queen
If you md5sum your epub you can make sure noone changes it. Why people think hard copies are particularly useful for this I do not know.
Because YOU know your book is original but that doesn't help anyone who finds it. It's better if the publication is preserved via computer.
Are you aware of this happening to other books? I've heard that some books have been getting unfair bannings (To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Seuss books, etc.) but am not aware of changes to content like this. I'm very interested in getting uncensored hardcopies, so if you know of other cases, please share.