Having that early morning panic because I am low (so low) on meds and don't know if I can get a refill! I just realized I havenāt actually seen my doctor in person for over a year, will she renew it when the pharmacy calls? Or will I have to spend 100 bucks to get a new one written?! Do I have enough meds to get through a wait? No. I mean, probably not.
Public Domain Day was yesterday, but you were probably hungover, so hereās how to download the tens of thousands of books that became legal to download for free in 2019.
Starting at midnight on January 1, tens of thousands of books (as well as movies, songs, and cartoons) entered the public domain, meaning that people can download, share, or repurpose these works for free and without retribution under US copyright law.
Per the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998, ācorporateā creations (like Mickey Mouse) can be restricted under copyright law for 120 years.Ā But per an amendment to the act, works published between 1923 and 1977 can enter the public domain 95 years after their creation.Ā This means that this is the first year since 1998Ā that a large number of works have entered the public domain.
Basically, 2019 marks the first time a huge quantity of books published in 1923 ā including works by Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Robert Frost ā have become legally downloadable since digital books became a thing.Ā Itās a big deal ā the Internet Archive had a party in San Francisco to celebrate.Ā Next year, works from 1924 will enter the public domain, and so-on.
So, how do you actually download these books?
It largely depends on what site you go to, and if you canāt find a book on one site, you can probably find it on another.Ā For instance, ReadPrint.com, as well as The Literature Network (mostly major authors), and Librivox (audio books), AuthoramaĀ (all in the public domain), and over a dozen other sites all have vast selections of free ebooks.
Thereās also a handful of archiving projects that are doing extensive work to digitize books, journals, music, and other forms of media.Ā A blog post from Duke Universityās Center for the Study of the Public Domain listed some of the most recognizable works published in 1923, as well as links to download these books on digital archiving projects Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and the Gutenberg Project.Ā The books include:
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Golden Lion
Agatha Christie, The Murder on the Links
Winston S. Churchill, The World Crisis
Robert Frost, New Hampshire
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Aldous Huxley, Antic Hay
D.H. Lawrence, Kangaroo
Bertrand and Dora Russell, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization
Carl Sandburg, Rootabaga Pigeons
Edith Wharton, A Son at the Front
P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves and Leave it to Psmith
Virginia Woolf, Jacobās Room
E.E. Cummings, Tulips and Chimneys
In total HathiTrust, a massive digital archiving project, has also uploaded more than 53,000 works published in 1923 that just entered the public domain.Ā Over 17,650 of them are books written in English.Ā Similarly, Internet Archive has already uploaded over 15,000 works written in English that year.
Project Gutenberg, which has over 58,000 free downloadable books, has digitized five works that entered the public domain in the new year: The Meredith Mystery by Natalie Sumner Lincoln, The Golden Boys Rescued by Radio L. P. Wyman, White Lightning Edwin by Herbert Lewis, The Garden of God by H. De Vere Stacpoole, andĀ The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran.Ā Iām going to be perfectly honest: I recognize exactly zero of those books.Ā But like most if not all digital archives, Project Gutenberg had some books from 1923 available for download before January 1, 2019 (like Jacobās Room by Virginia Woolf.)
If youāre interested in academic papers, Reddit user nemobis also uploaded over 1.5 million PDF files of works published in academic journals before 1923.Ā Your best bet for actually finding something you want to read in there is to know which academic paper youāre looking for beforehand and check the paperās DOI number.Ā Then, search for the DOI in one of nemobisās lists of works ā one list includes works published until 1909, the other includes works published until 1923.
Itās worth noting that projects like Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg rely on volunteer efforts, so thereās going to be disparities in the number of books available for download depending on where you go.Ā But over the next several days and weeks, itās safe to expect many more books will become available legally and for free across the web.
I heard ysl made penis earrings, and was stoked until I saw them and it was the most boring dick earring I have ever seen. I want dicks with wings and eyes, evidently. Maybe some boobs with eyes as nipples. You know, formal jewelry in the shape of genitals.
I normally smoke weed in le garage, but it is COLD so instead I am hotboxing the bathroom after work and watching Seth Meyers. Smoking inside feels so luxurious. Seriously.
Aw shit, I actually got the thing all penciled and mostly inked and only had to re-draw one panel! The lightbox is clean and ready to go, and I may have a completed zine by weeks end.
[A] man named Eric said, āI like to shower first then after a few mins plug the drain so it starts to fill up that way the water does not get gross and filled with pee.ā
Why am I so anxious all the time? What am I worried about? What is so scary about the outside world that I never want to leave the house? Anxiety is the worst because I keep thinking if I can answer any of those questions that I can somehow "fix" myself. There aren't any answers sufficient enough to stop my brain, tho. I have been trying for years. It's exhausting living like this. I just had to vent.
drawing on a tablet still feels strange to me, but i have been playing with different brushes and what i call the āmandalaā setting in sketchbook (i looked this up, and itās the symmetry tool). itās so fun! these are just little doodles from breakfast this morning. it felt good to be inside, with a warm cup of coffee, just drawing for a while.
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