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-the bootleg library
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-book sharing & annotation
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-calibre
-ebook manager - you can download this, run it on your computer and share books over a local network using the content server function
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-web app that the bootleg library runs on (a fork of the open-source calibre software)
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-pirate/shadow/"extra-legal" libraries
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-Monoskop
-https://monoskop.org/Monoskop
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-Library Genesis (collection is HUGE and mirrored) - i usually use the russian site
-http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
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-Memory of the World
-https://library.memoryoftheworld.org/#/books/
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-aaaaarg (only accessible by members. simon can invite you - just send him an email)
-https://aaaaarg.fail/
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-ask for PDFs from people with institutional access
-group for informal PDF sharing through a social network
-https://www.facebook.com/groups/850609558335839/
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-Sci-Hub (this is mirrored too, try googling if the link is down):
-https://mg.scihub.ltd/
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-ubu-web
-kenneth goldsmith's baby - an archive of avant-garde cinema and writing
-http://ubu.com/
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-Leeszaal
-not an online pirate library, but a volunteer-run place in Rotterdam where you can borrow books, look up information, learn how to use LINUX, study or just read the newspaper. Books are not catalogued, and if you want to borrow one, just take it off the shelf and walk out with it :)
-https://www.leeszaalrotterdamwest.nl/
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-legal online libraries & archives
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-Project Gutenberg
-books are within the public domain (70+ years after death of the author), so free of copyright restrictions:
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-hosts a collection of books and more, also has the wayback machine (snapshots of web pages going back to the 90s)
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-projects & open letters in support of and about piracy/peeracy
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-In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
-an open letter calling for shadow librarians to come out of the shadows
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-Alexandra Elbakyan to Mr. Robert W. Sweet (presiding judge in the Elsevier vs Sci-Hub et al court case)
-https://torrentfreak.com/images/sci-hub-reply.pdf
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-http://andpublishing.org/
- The Piracy Project
- http://andpublishing.org/the-piracy-project/
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-loose thoughts from our conversation
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-misspellings on ebay - how to exploit this to find undiscovered items http://fatfingers.com
-bootlegged DVDs and PS1 games - "chipping" to play bootlegged games
-social capital accumulated from having a chipped console
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-The Pirate Book
-historical stories of piracy - warez, demoscene, music etc:
-https://hub.xpub.nl/bootleglibrary/read/290/pdf
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-selling unauthorised copies out of a car boot = "boot"legging?
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-why do we feel it's more threatening to pirate books than movies/music/games etc?
-where does the text reside?
-what if i read a book out loud and make a file on youtube - is it bootlegging?
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- yes - the library is running on open-source software, so definitely possible. this requires an upgrade of the computer and data storage
-what is more of a risk - a shared google drive of PDFs or the bootleglib?
- a shared google drive is more risky - the bootleg library has several security measures in place to keep it private
-will i get into trouble for using the bootleg library?
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-can readers communicate with each other through the bootleglib?
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-some interesting things to watch & read on archives, libraries, piracy and activism
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- the science of piracy and the piracy of science by bodo balasz (an economist researching use of pirate libraries)
- Part 1: http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2019/03/06/the-science-of-piracy-the-piracy-of-science-who-are-the-science-pirates-and-where-do-they-come-from-part-1/
- Part 2: http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2019/03/21/the-science-of-piracy-the-piracy-of-science-who-are-the-science-pirates-and-where-do-they-come-from-part-2/
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- a view from elsewhere on authorship, copyright and creativity by eva weinmayr (of and publishing and the piracy project)
- https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mw-mediadesign/images/d/dd/Confronting_Authorship_Published_with_content_page--Whose_book_is_it_anyway.pdf
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- articles by shannon mattern on self-organised and "fugitive" libraries
- https://placesjournal.org/article/marginalia-little-libraries-in-the-urban-margins/
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- interview with kate eichhorn, author of the archival turn in feminism
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- Digital Amnesia
- https://youtu.be/NdZxI3nFVJs
- "Our memory is dissipating. Hard drives only last five years, a web page is forever changing and there’s no machine left that reads 15-year old floppy disks. Digital data is vulnerable. Yet entire libraries are shredded and lost to budget cuts, because we assume everything can be found online."
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- The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
- https://archive.org/details/TheInternetsOwnBoyTheStoryOfAaronSwartz
- "The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews with his family and friends as well as the internet luminaries who worked with him. The film tells his story up to his eventual suicide after a legal battle, and explores the questions of access to information and civil liberties that drove his work."
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-King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
-Polygondwanaland is free for everybody and you can do with what you.
-From the band's post accompanying links to different digital packs:
-"This album is FREE. Free as in, free. Free to download and if you wish, free to make copies.
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-Ever wanted to start your own record label? GO for it! Employ your mates, press wax, pack boxes. We do not own this record. You do. Go forth, share, enjoy."
-https://www.discogs.com/King-Gizzard-And-The-Lizard-Wizard-Polygondwanaland/master/1268453
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-100 copies of the white album played at once
-https://thevinylfactory.com/news/artist-layers-100-unique-copies-of-the-beatles-white-album-for-original-vinyl-release/
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This is another book where I took a text file and laid it out again in InDesign, like the copy of Dumbstruck that I bootlegged. However, this time I made a code to indicate the page numbering and text flow of the source publication. This was to provide comfortable, consistent tracking to the letterspacing - one of the issues with Dumbstruck was that, in an attempt to keep the text flow and page numbering the same, some paragraphs were too tightly, or too loosely kerned. I feel this is a more elegant solution, however, it might pose problems if someone else tried to do the same as I had (taking the text from a source publication and laying it out) as the code is now part of the text. The cover was made with glossy paper, and custom-cut vinyl stickers. In time these will probably come off, but that's conceptually sympathetic to the content of the book, which is about the transience of the voice.
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Retained digital annotations are rare in the wild, but I found one PDF of Jorge Luis Borges "The Garden of Forking Paths" that had underlinings and highlighted text. The interesting thing is that these change appearance slightly depending on the e-reader software used to display the text.
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Another text that came pre-annotated was Ursula K Le Guin's "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction". For this, I placed scans in a vector graphics program and digitised pen marks. I also included the text that was annotated with circles, underlines and lines in the margins.
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HOW DO I KNOW WHAT I AM READING? We are discussing form how do we talk about content?
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The physical bootleg library is housed in a disused champagne crate. It contains books that I have bootlegged myself, or ones that others have. It also contains books donated by visitors to wherever the library is (temporarily) installed. The library travels, and is part of bootleg library sessions held at PZI and at other locations.
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In Al Sweigart's Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, there's a nice section on a Python library called PyPDF2 that allows you to work with the contents of PDFs. To begin with, I thought I'd try extracting text from a PDF of William S. Burrough's The Electronic Revolution. I chose this PDF as the only version I've found of it online is a 40pp document published by ubuclassics (which I suppose is the publishing house for ubuweb.com). There was no identifier other than this (no ISBN etc.), and it was impossible locating any other version online. What's more, the PDF had very small text, which was uncomfortable to read when I ran the booklet.sh script on it.
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This book took about 40 hours to create, the longest time it's taken so far... I found a PDF on Lib Gen, but for some reason the OCR'd text was tracked quite tight making each line look like a very long word - this was even worse when printed. After a quick search on worldcat, I discovered that this book was available to be borrowed from the Royal Library in the Hague. Off I went to borrow the book. I planned to scan it using the bookscanner, but the cameras kept crashing after scanning half the 433 page book. So, I managed to extract the text using Calibre's book convert process from PDF > RTF. However, after placing the text in an InDesign layout, all of the numbers appeared as missing characters. From the looks of the PDF it seemed that these were perhaps from an Opentype font's custom stylistic set, which would explain why they weren't turning up in my system fonts. Also, in the index at the back of the book the numbers seemed to have the appearance of hyperlinks (when hovering over the hand icon appears) but when clicked, did absolutely nothing. So I began the rather painstaking process of laying out the book with exactly the same text flow and page numbers as the source. The work included removing headers and page numbers from the RTF, scanning all photos from the printed book, endlessly wordspacing paragraphs to make sure they fit where they should on each page, styling the text, removing manually written hyphenation (this was done programmatically, and ended up with a few words that were joined together in the case of examples like "re- and dis- associate" becoming reand disassociate") and the seemingly endless task of manually entering in EVERY number. At times it felt a bit masochistic, but I used this time to reflect on the process, thinking a lot about the changes I was making to preserve the form of the original. Ironically, this also involved a lot of forced line breaks, which would make the task of anyone who wanted to bootleg this book a bit more difficult (forced line breaks are the bane of the bootlegger). Another strange thought - I'm reading these books as I redesign them, but my reading happens on a more superficial level perhaps, meaning that I'm not absorbing the content fully, but reading it like a machine would as I look for anomalies and address them.
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In November 2018, I experimented with a timed writing task using Etherpad, a collaborative realtime browser-based text editor. Etherpad automatically assigns authorship colours to users, and I wanted to explore how a text that I was writing, reading and editing over a specific time period could be visualised.
The method was to write for one hour. I begin by writing a text about what I was doing (writing, reading and editing). For time constraints, I established writing periods of 3 minutes, and a rest period of 2 minutes. After 6 iterations, this shifted to 5 minutes for both respectively. I kept writing and opening up new private tabs in my browser to give each iteration new authorship colours. These are lost when exported, so I recreated the text and authorship colours to make visualisations.
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