Macrobius on Nostr: KIA Soul at the Phora writes: archive.org is also under legal attacks from publishers ...

KIA Soul at the Phora writes:

archive.org is also under legal attacks from publishers wanting to re-copyright all public domain works. Access to hundreds of thousands of public domain works has been removed. A sign of this was given when Google Books dropped carrying free downloads and offering more and more 'printed copies' for sale. Soon everything will be pay for view and the web will go the way of cable and satellite TV; many will eventually be priced out of internet services. Haven't visited the Cornell Library sites in a while, maybe they're already shrinking and disappearing as well. They had a lot of stuff on agriculture and 'Home Economics' and history there. HEARTH or something was the name.

HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History | Cornell University Library Digital Collections
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/hearth

'Home Economics' from the Progressive era covered a lot more ground than people would assume.

They've moved a lot of it to another site:

Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Digitized content from the collections of Cornell University Library
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/

They haven't purged all of the politically incorrect stuff yet apparently.

https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4732756_189_001#page/58/mode/1up

https://reader.library.cornell.edu/docviewer/digital?id=hearth4600510#mode/1up

Look for these collections to disappear soon, maybe try and download as much as possible in your lines of interest while they're still available.

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