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In the wake of the recent attack on Library Genesis I feel inclined to let everyone know that book piracy is foundational to public education in Costa Rica, specially in university levels
Almost all reading material for UCR students are photocopies, or more recently PDF scans, of books made without permission of the original author; one of the top universities in Latin America endorses book piracy
I keep hearing people lamenting how no one reads books anymore and they don't mention that a new book is 25 € at a bookshop? Who can afford that? If it weren't for a special combo of local_library+libgen+vinted+gutenberg I could never read as much as I do
Shadow libraries… I could never quit you…
No but like seriously. Shadow libraries are such an important resource. Genuinely no other way I could afford to self-study for my niche major while stuck in a small community college with zero resources for it, or manage to secretly read books affirming my existence when I was a closeted queer teenager.
Of course buy books if you can afford them and support authors—I own physical copies of MANY of the non-academic books I’ve downloaded—but it’s lovely that there’s an accessible option for those that can’t!
scanning a book, but especially an out-of-print, rare book, and uploading it to library genesis is the best feeling ever... and an even greater feeling is publishing your own book and uploading it to library genesis (which I did and am proud of).
librarians and archivists under socialism will perform even greater roles of human emancipation, knowledge creation and preservation because they will be freed from copyrights and intellectual property rights in how they preserve and distribute knowledge.
before some idiot says 'but what about artists and authors losing income!?!?!' yea, you're talking about this through the lens and realities of capitalism, in which artists have to sell their art to survive. socialism and communism aim to meet all the material and cultural needs of their people regardless of class (which will wither away), so that each can be their best selves. artists will not need to survive off of selling art under socialism. they will materially supported by a state that creates material super-abundance and universal material safety for all. it is capitalism that reduces artists to profit off of their labour of art in order to survive. art under socialism will be unprecedented and ever deeper expressions of human consciousness, free from being chained to intellectual property, profit-motive and inaccessibility, paywalls and as a means to earn a bit extra money to support a self structurally reduced to poverty under capitalism.
anyway have a good day. read a book if you can. scan a book if you will. :)
they shut down libgen and deleted many audiobooks on zero-ave. what even is the will to live anymore?
i mean i was just trying to download a copy of a new japanese textbook but yeah i agree with this sentiment
one of the many things i love about Library Genesis is that people will go to the trouble of illegally uploading whole books in the interest of free and equal access to knowledge but will not bother to spell the name of the book correctly
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