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Book feature for October was a no brainer.

Bram Stokers Dracula

Waifu Days said:
Before I post my submission I wanted to make sure I got all my facts straight. I believe this translation is one of the few in English that is in the public domain.
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A 1923 translation should be perfectly acceptable.

The Ernest Hemmingway book is also in the Public Domain as it was published before 1929.
 
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Sexy Senior Citizen said:
Ah, fudge, I was hoping it'd be Frankenstein.

I also wanted to get the Gormenghast trilogy, but that's still under copyright by the looks of things.
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It was a coin toss in my head. But Dracula won because apparently critics panned it because it was too horrifying. Unless something better comes along Frank will definitely get next October.

I will maintain though I want this to be a more collaborative project, so if people want something featured please say so. I'm kinda shoehorned into head librarian role because I have the OP, but I want this project to be a gift to the forum rather then something I uniquely do. So by all means. We got Christmas coming up, and there is alot of public domain literature for December!
 
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I prefer Frankenstein but I can understand going with Dracula. Admittedly, I only like aspects of the Dracula novel and much prefer the future homages and variations of the character.

Question, I am looking to submit a few pieces that were originally not in English. I plan to primarily only post book that have an English translation but would it be preferrable to post English pdf and other languages in one post or the separate them?
 
Waifu Days said:
Question, I am looking to submit a few pieces that were originally not in English. I plan to primarily only post book that have an English translation but would it be preferrable to post English pdf and other languages in one post or the separate them?
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Why not both? Just note in the post that one PDF is in the original language and one is in English.
 
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Historical Strelkov said:
There's gotta be a better way to do this.
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Historical Strelkov said:
Maybe a wiki style site. The problem is forums are not great ways of organizing a repository or library.
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I have been thinking the same thing with the way i post and archive my papers. Ultimately, i don't think the website in its current form is conducive to this style of project. There is a dissonance between the structure and form of the website and the goals it seeks. A more wiki style forum is probably best, with specific subforums having their own style so as to conduct whatever is needed, like having an archived library. Its annoying to scroll through pages of archived books when a single front page of a subsection of the site hosting links would do much better. Thats a lot of work for joshua though, and a complete reimagining of what it is that we do here. A lot to consider, but an admirable attempt.
 
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I don't know where else to post this but the Internet Archive just hosted a symposium entitled Escaping the Memory Hole where they announced plans to censor the archive. They were talking about "the spread of mis/dis/ma-information" and how the Internet Archive has been used to aid in those efforts and how things are going to be different now that they have hired multiple organizations that are well connected to Wikipedia and other large websites to aid them in their censorship efforts.

Also I don't know why but these people talk like Sam Hyde in his 2070 Paradigm Shift IRL shitpost.

[Reserving this space for a local archive once I am finished reencoding it at a smaller file size]
 
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I was asleep at the switch for the December book feature. Fortunately Joy of Cooking makes a good December feature too, since people are still going to be doing alot of entertaining. Also "A Christmas Carol" would have been so obvious and boring anyway...
 
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Associate Rick said:
It would have been the perfect time for A Christmas Carnage.
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Somewhat off-topic but holy shit when I went to do more research on this book this is what popped up.
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I have opened the New Year with a book that will take all year to read: Principia Mathematica. I thought it would be a worthy addition to the Kiwi Farms library. Ironically enough, the Wikipedia page has this quote from G. H. Hardy:
I can remember Bertrand Russell telling me of a horrible dream. He was in the top floor of the University Library, about A.D. 2100. A library assistant was going round the shelves carrying an enormous bucket, taking down books, glancing at them, restoring them to the shelves or dumping them into the bucket. At last he came to three large volumes which Russell could recognize as the last surviving copy of Principia Mathematica. He took down one of the volumes, turned over a few pages, seemed puzzled for a moment by the curious symbolism, closed the volume, balanced it in his hand and hesitated....
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Also, the entire book is split across three volumes, all of which have been uploaded in the post.
 
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