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Originally Posted by DebbyS
If instead of "pirates" those who rescued older books were called "Robin Hoods", would it make a difference?
The Robin Hoods gather, scan, fix up, convert -- to rtf or epub or whatever -- books that are old and forgotten but not out of copyright. I've scanned and fixed up some old books I recall liking a great deal back in the 1980s. I couldn't find them (can't imagine having tossed them after pdfing them -- poorly -- but I guess I did... ) and had to re-buy them (Abe Books) so I could rescan and turn them into epubs. I'm probably the only one in the history of the rest of the world who will do that for these poor forgotten SciFi/Space Opera books by Ian Wallace... but I'd be called a pirate if i shared them on the net. I'd rather be thought of as a Robin Hood [or Maid Marion if she was the brains behind the outfit  ].
Maybe there should be a classification for those of us who'd like to make sure some books, books maybe too silly for Project Gutenberg, are never forgotten.
Just a thought  |
I'm a fan of "booklegger" from Walter Miller's
A Canticle For Lebowitz. You don't have to take the Monastery Oath, though.
(Don't know it? Worth reading the book just for that (and lots more).)
Although in this day and age, I suppose it ought to be "Datalegger".