Yet another opportunity for unemployed lawyers: Federal Depository Libraries in the U.S. are legally required to provide access to the public. The Superintendent of Documents may have an opinion that implies otherwise, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t be open to legal challenge.
However, I’ve long suspected that someday physical books (unless they’re “approved,” tracked, and traced) would come to exist mostly on a gray, underground market. Hopefully, I’m wrong.
My electronic copy of 1984 is still on my Kindle. It has the original publisher and copyright info before the chapter pages. A legal copy. The copy removed from some Kindles was probably a bootleg copy thus a violation of copyright law.
I, like I assume many fellow Gizars are too, am an outsider in many ways amongst my neighbors, friends and family. One of those things that make me “that guy,” is that I pride myself of slowly and deliberately building out my library (physical books) at home. It only consists of a few fully stocked book shelfs now, but over time, I imagine it will be a thing of beauty and something I can pass down to my children.
I miss the cozy old timey public libraries with oak book shelves, soft fabric chairs and the milled paper smell of books. I thought they were so boring as a teenager, when ever I was forced to check out books for some dreaded report. Now I really miss that, new libraries are so sterile, awful, modern and uncomfortable. By design I’m sure.
Yet another opportunity for unemployed lawyers: Federal Depository Libraries in the U.S. are legally required to provide access to the public. The Superintendent of Documents may have an opinion that implies otherwise, but I don’t see why that wouldn’t be open to legal challenge.
However, I’ve long suspected that someday physical books (unless they’re “approved,” tracked, and traced) would come to exist mostly on a gray, underground market. Hopefully, I’m wrong.
My electronic copy of 1984 is still on my Kindle. It has the original publisher and copyright info before the chapter pages. A legal copy. The copy removed from some Kindles was probably a bootleg copy thus a violation of copyright law.
I, like I assume many fellow Gizars are too, am an outsider in many ways amongst my neighbors, friends and family. One of those things that make me “that guy,” is that I pride myself of slowly and deliberately building out my library (physical books) at home. It only consists of a few fully stocked book shelfs now, but over time, I imagine it will be a thing of beauty and something I can pass down to my children.
I miss the cozy old timey public libraries with oak book shelves, soft fabric chairs and the milled paper smell of books. I thought they were so boring as a teenager, when ever I was forced to check out books for some dreaded report. Now I really miss that, new libraries are so sterile, awful, modern and uncomfortable. By design I’m sure.