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An absolutely excellent book list. If all those books are available on Project Gutenberg (which it seems they are), this is one hell of an achievement as a civi
by swombat 15y ago
An absolutely excellent book list. If all those books are available on Project Gutenberg (which it seems they are), this is one hell of an achievement as a civilisation, that we have managed to make freely available these foundations of educated thought.
- apg 15y agoAgreed on the list quality. About the second part of your comment - these works were probably all in the public domain before the great copyright lockdown of 1976 (and subsequent copyright extensions). Unfortunately "content owners" are going to find a way to extend copyright into perpetuity. It feels like copyright law today is going where Real Property Law was circa 1600. "To content owners and the heirs of thy body in fee simple absolute... " Edit: Don't expect to see any new works anytime soon.