Please find a home for them! Once trashed they do no good for anyone.
These kinds of primary resources are a goldmine for anyone studying
history, literature, material culture, historic anthropology, sociology,
etc. High school or even elementary school teachers who want to provide
their
For another example, while I absolutely love projects that have
digitized masses of material, like Google Books, Making of America, or
Accessible Archives, copyright and access issues are still important for
those who want to undertake small, focused digitization projects. Having
access to
What Google _has_ done is scan over 2 million works that are still under
copyright and is planning to sell _those_, not via any legislation to
directly change copyright law but via a class action suit and a contract
made with a handful of parties who do not represent most authors or
Again, no one has ever objected to Google's scanning of public-domain
works, or their plans to sell those works as e-books or print books, or
their plans to sell ads within them.
On the other hand I can understand Google selling them as many of the Public
domain works that are free in their
On the other hand I can understand Google selling them as many of the
Public domain works that are free in their entirety on Google books are
already being sold on ABEbooks by others as I found to my dismay after
buying one. I did get a refund in the end.
In the US it is perfectly legal
Another thought about those is Scan and Share.
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Hi Fran,
Well, I just so hate to throw anything out that might have any little tidbit
of historical value. Goes right along with being an incorrigible packrat.
Yes, they're mine. I can do what I want...but it's not easy to toss out
parts!
I too sometimes get sucked into the fiction, not often,
