I am Angry at The Lost Book Project so please enjoy this curated list of ebooks
TL;DR: A company is trying to resell books from the Internet Archive at a markup. Here are roundups to all the free links instead.
Please donate to the Internet Archive if you find this post valuable.
42 Ancient Medicinal Plant Remedies
7 Lost Books and Texts on Meditation
The Witchcraft and Magic Collection (51 books)
11 Secret Books for Spiritual Seekers
11 Classic Numerology Books
The Lost Entrepreneurs Handbooks
21 Rare Books on Sacred Sexuality and Magick
16 Seminal Books on Law of Attraction and Manifestation
The Ancient Greece Collection - 36 Rare Books
The Ancient Key to The Tarot - 21 Books
The Definitive Demonology Book Collection
33 Rare Hidden Books on Freemasonry
The Manly P. Hall Collection
45 Rare Supernatural Books - Ghost Stories and Mysteries
37 Ancient Lost Texts on Buddhism
20 Books On Astrology, Zodiac and Horoscopes
The Lost Book of Spells - Spellbooks and Rituals
37 Lost Books on Ancient Mesopotamia
18 Lost Alchemy and Occult Science Books Works Of Sir George Ripley
The Vikings & Norse Mythology Book Collection
My angry rant as to why I am willing to do this in my spare time is below the break.
So I received a target Facebook ad for a website called the Lost Book Project (I refuse to link to them) advertising a collection of herbal books for a nice low price. Problem - the first book I saw them selling was Culpepper's Herbal from the 1600s, meaning it's well outside copyright. I own a digital copy for this reason!
So logically, I decided to check if the other books on the list, most of which are outside copyright, were also available on Archive.org. Sure enough, the whole list is available there.
Now, for starters, this makes me INCREDIBLY angry. It's not illegal to sell out-of-copyright books, but the Internet Archive is my favorite place for old books, and like Wikipedia they operate entirely on donations. Their average donation is $17 - just about the cost of this collection.
Websites that are making money off of a free service by locking them behind a paywall are anathema to everything that the Internet Archive stands for. Furthermore, if you're in the US or UK (where most of these books are sourced from), your tax dollars have already paid for these books to be stored and digitized.
EDIT: I have also noticed that two many books are still in publication and under copyright! I have sent notices to their publishers.
Things like this activate my sense of fairness to the nth degree. I hate scammers. I hate people who sell things without adding value. And I really hate it when they're taking money from good institutions that need it. Imagine if half of the people who paid for these books donated instead!?
So please help yourself to the links on each roundup. I'll continue to do the work needed to link all of the books they offer to their proper sources.
And fuck companies exploiting the work of others for their own profit.
Okay so now that salem’s mask off saying he supports mari do you believe me now?
How fucking depressing. Like actually. I thought you were better than this salem. But you again and again fucking prove me right.
Mari is not “a vulnerable transfem” she is an abuser and very blatantly shown at that. You can cry about me abusing you with no proof. Go ahead. Doesn’t hurt me. But you are just stoking the fire and giving me more reasons to release our dms salem. Because again you cannot for the life of you not lie.
You’re not brave and progressive for defending my abuser and rapist. You’re just as bad.
so theres a post flying around rn about people on tumblr
and while ofc it fits salem to a t theres also a bunch of people just directly calling him out in the comments and qrts and it makes me smile that nobody will ever forget or forgive kung fu revvy on twitter"
THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS
Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.
This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.
THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.
If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.
CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.
Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.
The Senate’s spending package could offer up nearly 300 million acres of public lands for sale—a vast area that includes nearly 100,000 mile
I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.
i know were all focusing on salem interacting with a cub artist (a pedophile. lets say it how it really is)
but can we also talk about how wis spent months threatening sawyer with calling ice only to turn around and say fuck ice btw just because its trendy. like yes, fuck ICE, but you dont agree with that, you just say that because its trendy. you hate mexicans, wis. just own it like all the other white supremacist filths. oh wait, you cant be a white supremacist, becayse you have an asian fetish and are dating a black guy that also hates mexicans. lol ok girlie. lets see how long it takes for that facade to drop after salem inevitably gets bored of you and decides to chase after some other girl.
sawyer si lees esto te mando un fuerte abrazo desde mexico, neta que mal que tengas que seguir lidiando con la cucaracha esa. tu gente te respalda amigue ✊️🇲🇽
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