Comments on: Library.nu has been shut down

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:29:44 +0000

I’m not sure about this site. It’s mentioned in the comments here, but clicking on one book led to a link to somewhere odd-looking, which did not work.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/15/librarynu-book-downloading-injunction_n_1280383.html

By: js951538

js951538 — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 20:21:10 +0000

plenty of alternative to library.nu have sprungup since, take legalreads.com for example with 1 million ebooks

By: Livius Nieuwsbrief / april « Mainzer Beobachter

Livius Nieuwsbrief / april « Mainzer Beobachter — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:44:51 +0000

[...] kwetsbaar is het digitale erfgoed: Library.nu gaat dicht en we zijn alles kwijt. Soortgelijk nieuws over Google [...]

By: majid

majid — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 03:08:04 +0000

shutting Library.nu up was a disaster. rich companies are killing the Internet gradually for more money.

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:11:21 +0000

Thank you!

By: Maureen

Maureen — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:11:23 +0000

De Ira is available on archive.org.
http://archive.org/details/philodemiepicur00philgoog

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:27:55 +0000

The French at least do seem to understand that the internet is an opportunity for French culture, as well as English. There are some excellent French sites. But in German? Nothing. And the German publishers, I understand, intend to keep it that way.

As you say, German will become an unimportant language if this continues. Even Germans will find their reading mainly in English.

The jurisdiction tourism in the case was interesting, tho.

By: Teo

Teo — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:00:20 +0000

We surely and quickly see the freedom of Internet confiscated by corporations…(A.C.T.A, SOPA, PIPA). The culture is for the rich…

By: Matthew Hamilton

Matthew Hamilton — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:08:22 +0000

In the late 19th-early 20th century German was the main academic language and French the main diplomatic language. French has fallen away and in recent years an increasing portion of academic books published in Germany have been in English. With restrictions on the web in Germany we can probably look to the day when knowing German (as an academic language) becomes as unimportant as knowing French

By: Roger Pearse

Roger Pearse — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:14:15 +0000

How very shameful! Yet the item must be public domain in the USA, so that’s a bit strange…?

I suspect that students probably exchange gigabytes of books on hard drives. If only one were in the loop!