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Good article about the Internet Archive on Arstechnica this week. I knew the Open Library had to remove some books, but I did not know it was 500,000 titles that can no longer be borrowed online. That's a huge blow.
If I had access to thousands of books to scan and wanted to upload them somewhere, where would I put them now? Library Genesis?? z-lib.id?? (can you even upload your own books to those places?)
@decryption Sounds a lot like what game console companies do, preventing old games from being preserved and runnable on increasing old hardware.
To be clear, I will still upload to the Internet Archive! But seeing as they have more trigger happy publisher eyes than ever on them, it’s probably a good idea for me to upload my scans somewhere else too.
Libgen and Anna's Archive have everything I've ever written, and I'm a nobody, so...
@shaknais Anna's Archive gets them from other shadow libraries, you can't upload to it directly. Libgen seems to be a closed club for uploading (I think), almost like a private torrent tracker so rats/narcs don't get too deeply involved
Nah. You can upload to libgen easily enough.
It's the review process that is internal.
@shaknais I might have to start uploading there as well as the Internet Archive
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