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An argument for why we need to start hoarding books and textbooks immediately.

Archive.org Internet in Box Time.is
  1. Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies...
    Remember, book publishers want to shut down Internet Archive (archive.org) with mor than 38million free books. Many of them are historical.

    #Ebooks #Productivity #Bookmark Manager 8506 social mentions

  2. Offline community sharing. Useable for remote communities (kiwix), schools (kalite) and medical communities (there is a medical version)
    Pricing:
    • Open Source

    #Cloud Computing #Control Panels #VPS 18 social mentions

  3. Search engine of shadow libraries: books, papers, comics, magazines.
    Luckily we are already doing this, see Project Gutenberg and Anna's Archive. As much stigma there is, the piracy scene is exceptional in keeping content alive via torrenting no matter if it's old music (see RED private tracker), old vintage games, or books (annas archive). Due to the nature of torrenting, these terabytes of books and such cannot be changed and will be preserved indefinitely.

    #Ebooks #Torrents #Torrent Downloads 127 social mentions

  4. exact time in any location
    Pricing:
    • Free
    NTP is necessary to make the internet and our digital lives function. Having accurate time is vital; otherwise things fail in unexpected ways. Here's a plug for https://time.is/ so check to see how much clock drift your computer has - it's fun!

    #Timezones #Online Clock #Timezone Conversion 229 social mentions

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