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[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thank you! Another commenter mentioned they found a book by the same name on MAM, but by an author I didn't see mentioned on the publisher's site, so it's very likely a separate work by someone else. It is fairly huge, so making a digital scan is a project in and of itself.

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is the official URL.

From the excerpts on the site, there wasn't any 1 specific author (I didn't see anyone with the name you mentioned in my skim), but several contributors, since it was a Kickstarter project funded by interested parties who wanted a modernized and compiled version of all 13 volumes in 1 book.

Thank you either way! You didn't have to do that, but you did which I'm very thankful for! ☺

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I've been looking for a digital copy of Kronecker Wallis' text, "Euclid's Elements", on the major sites (AA, ZL, LG, VK, IRC, Scribd, Mobilism, rutracker, Ocean of PDF, etc.) but they've all come up empty.

A lot of the books I usually look for can't be found on the major sites and while I've made a few (several) book requests on Z-Library, it may take months or years for those to come to fruition.

How do you all find more obscure/niche books or newer texts? The book in question costs £200 excluding shipping, so buying it isn't in my 2023-2024 budget. There are also a ton of books from the Library of Congress I'd LOVE to have uploaded eventually, but that's easier said than done.

Are there sites/trackers dedicated towards making digital scans of physical books (like the Internet Archive)?

Thank you!

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's what I read as well. You would think they would've gotten some leeway since it was done during an event comparable to war and they were following the footsteps of other digital libraries. They had a pretty stellar reputation and system in place for nearly a decade already, so I can only assume that they were simply waiting for an opportunity to target them.

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

I hope this is where it stops. Current laws aren't too favourable towards projects like these and the IA depends heavily on donations so I don't think they'd be able to withstand multiple drawn out court battles. I'm just waiting to see what gets affected exactly and to what extent.

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

I didn't say it was dead, most of its domains were seized by the US, so they were in fact run off like dogs. I made a post a month or two back mentioning the new domain they have.

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Lmao I'm so sorry! I realised afterwards what was happening, but have no idea how to fix it since I'm still fairly new to Lemmy. I hope it didn't inconvenience you too much!

[-] Pearlescence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

Sci-Hub stopped adding new articles since its court case and Z-Lib had most of its domains seized by the US. I didn't say they were dead, but tried to convey that they were attacked and forced to either cease their operations or shrink significantly.

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Another one is close to biting the dust. Sci-Hub is out, Z-Lib got ran off like a dog and now IA is going to remove a host of books because these publishers just can't stop being money-hungry bastards.

This is why I support piracy. Knowledge should be free. To go after a nonprofit organization that just wants to make digital books and other formats accessible to everyone when majority of uploads can't be downloaded only borrowed, is just so devious and greedy.

I'm so tired of it. Laws around copyright and intellectual property need to be reformed. I feel so helpless :c

Link to blog post:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/08/17/what-the-hachette-v-internet-archive-decision-means-for-our-library/

Pearlescence

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