The Grand Library of Kiwi Farms - Farms based Archive of great Public Domain works

Please follow the thread's rules. All commentary or discussion should be made in this accompanying thread.

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INTRODUCTION

There is a rule around here. "Archive Everything". This rule exists for a reason. Because the digital space is an ever shifting sea of sand where things can exist one day, and be gone the next. Solely on the whims of the people in control of the data. As more and more things become consumed by the digital space, there is a very real danger of the great works of history also being only easily accessible digitally. And digital copies are by their nature dependent on the people who control them. Which means they could at any moment either be edited or outright deleted. To that end I propose this thread serve as an Archive for the great works. There is no set criteria save only your own belief that a particular digital copy of a book is worth archiving. This incidentally has been the stated mission of other major non profit projects such as "Project Gutenberg". Since this idea jives so well with the ethos of the website, I'm surprised a similar effort has not been proposed here. So here it is now.


RULES
1. The work archived must be in the public domain. No copyrighted books. This is not a piracy thread. Examples of a public domain book is "Around the World in 80's Days" which was published more then a century ago. Nobody owns the rights too it anymore. The latest crap being shat onto Kindle Unlimited every day on the other hand is an example of stuff not to archive. If you are uncertain if a work is Public Domain or not, here is a simple guide on the subject.

2. Each post must be made in the following format, in order to make the book searchable within the thread.
a. Title
b. Author
c. Year of original publication
d. Location the file was obtained at
e. Date YOU downloaded the file
f. Brief explanation of the book and its contents. Write the description with search optimization in mind. If it's a science fiction book, say so.

3. It follows that each archived book post must be unique. No massive dumps of multiple books in one post. If a book is worthy of an archive it must stand alone, not just for its worth, but also so anyone searching the thread can find the specific title. A Library must be searchable.

4. There is now a meta thread for talking about the Library and its contents. Keep this thread for just the books. In short, silence in the Library!

5. Make sure the work you are posting has not already been posted. An exception to this is works included in an omnibus of an authors work, i.e, the complete works of "Jules Verne". Individual copies of the one story out of the Omnibus may still be added. If you think you have a superior copy of a given work to what has been posted, bring it up in the Meta Thread.

HOW TO SEARCH THE LIBRARY

The Formatting of each archive post is intended to make searching for the works possible using the forums in built search function. Simply look at the top of your browser window and "Left Click" on the Search button. After that, make sure the box marked "This Thread" is selected. After that it is simply a matter of typing in the title of the book you are looking for, or the author. As more stuff gets added, searching for more general terms will be possible due to the format's inclusion of book description.

In conclusion, I shall now quote the great bard, Brandon Sanderson.

I write these words in steel, for anything not set in metal cannot be trusted​

Tintin in the Congo

Georges Prosper Remi
Hergé

Casterman Edition. 1931. Translated.
Digitized Copy from Internet Archive
4/21/2024

The most notorious work by Remi, under his pen name Hergé, this comic serial was published in the Belgian Magazine "Le Petit Vingtiem". It is a satirical look at the Belgian colonization of the Congo. The author would later be forced to denounce his own work. It is now considered an extreme example of European Colonialist sympathy, and is on the list of proscribed books throughout most western countries. It will most likely be formally burned and memory holed in the coming decades.