Hi Cypherpunks Free access to any information is a vital necessity of a man of today, of free society and flourishing culture.A society built around information <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/information>tends to produce more of the. things people value most in a modern democracy: freedom and Information should be free <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/free>, and access to information <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/information> should be free <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/free>, I believe in equality for everyone, except goverments and agents. Fiction: Google Books lets you download any book in the world for free.Google or other platforms do not provide free access.Freeaccess is possible with limited pages.I believe that people should have free access to information regardless of their economic or social background. But not everyone has money or physical access.I have a great book archive. A while ago, a cypherpunk who left the this list sent me a message.After this message, I had this idea. To change that, I'm going to publish books in PDF here every day.These could be computer science and books on a lot of topics.Please don't answer the mail I sent here .Instead, you can write to me in privately People need physical access and money to access books It is worth remembering that we are still at the dawn of a new age of information technology, and fierce battles are being fought over the right of access to information in different countries. Why should we pay for the distribution of information that can be easily and perfectly copied without any loss of the original quality?If there is a book you want to be published here, you can send me a private message. If it's in the archive, I'll post it here. Unlimited access for everyone :-)
On 4/4/22 16:22, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 19:22:26 +0200 (CEST) bookpdf@keemail.me wrote:
pdf, not the smtartest of choices...
Alright.Do you have a solution for this?
yes, do not use the pdf format.
I think he means: what format to use instead? -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com>
Hi, The PDF book idea (for me where frequent big downloads are not an issue; some have had trouble with large attachments in the past) seems heartening and fun :) Regarding alternatives to PDF, a clear format is plaintext. This is easier to read and trust from a text-only environment, and can be smaller and easier to transfer. There are tools to convert pdfs or epubs to plaintext, but often the output needs a lot of hand-massaging to look nice. There are some good examples of plaintext books at the old project gutenberg website. However, I infer doing that conversion could add a lot of work to something that otherwise could be an easy share, so I don't personally have an opinion on it one way or the other.
On 4/4/22 17:12, Karl Semich wrote:
Regarding alternatives to PDF, a clear format is plaintext. This is easier to read and trust from a text-only environment, and can be smaller and easier to transfer. There are tools to convert pdfs or epubs to plaintext, but often the output needs a lot of hand-massaging to look nice.
It is difficult to include illustrations, diagrams, etc in plain text. At best, it's an alternative for only the simplest of texts where formatting, page numbers, font selection, etc are not as important as the text itself. Maybe I should have asked, instead: what's wrong with PDF? What makes something like (for example) DJVU so much better? -- Shawn K. Quinn <skquinn@rushpost.com>
Maybe I should have asked, instead: what's wrong with PDF?
you can't change font size. Pdf is a format for idiotic 'graphic design', not text. Indeed text isn't stored as text, but as 'graphic objects' at x,y coords. Apart from that, the 'format' is owned by a fascist US company - it's anything but 'free' or 'open access'. pdf is shit both from a technical and political point of view. funny you had to ask...
The purpose of simple formats like txt or html is to protect from viruses and trojans. The more you can understand and rebuild yourself about your system, the fewer gaping security holes. Most of these huge holes are in graphical setups like desktop environments or web browsers, and proprietary products or formats like those of adobe or microsoft. Most text-based people nowadays are probably experienced with viewing a pdf in text mode. Academic papers, for example, are distributed this way. It can be a little frustrating if the content is scanned without OCR. The PDF books are great and inspiring. I would add a more safe or accessible format only when and if capacity allows.
noting that punk and me here worked together to increase discouragement associated with a new positive share i'm guessing that new positive things could be worth much more than any possible criticism, at least until the positive parts have stabilised. similarly when supporting something in a disruptive behavior, it's likely good to preface any apparent support with concern or warning around the disruption; something to share recognition that what's going on there is not really the small topic.
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 16:49:40 -0500 "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn@rushpost.com> wrote:
On 4/4/22 16:22, Punk-BatSoup-Stasi 2.0 wrote:
On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 19:22:26 +0200 (CEST) bookpdf@keemail.me wrote:
pdf, not the smtartest of choices...
Alright.Do you have a solution for this?
yes, do not use the pdf format.
I think he means: what format to use instead?
plain text, or basic html/epub, I'd say.
Hi Cypherpunks
Free access to any information is a vital necessity of a man of today, of free society and flourishing culture.> A society built around> > information <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/information>> tends> to produce more of the> .> things people value most in a modern democracy: freedom and> Information should be> > free <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/free>> , and access to> > information <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/information>> > should be> > free <https://context.reverso.net/%C3%A7eviri/ingilizce-t%C3%BCrk%C3%A7e/free>> ,> > I believe in equality for everyone, except goverments and agents.
Fiction: Google Books lets you download any book in the world for free.Google or other platforms do not provide free access.Freeaccess is possible with limited pages.> I believe that people should have free access to information regardless of their economic or social background. But not everyone has money or physical access.I have a great book archive.
A while ago, a cypherpunk who left the this list sent me a message.After this message, I had this idea. To change that, I'm going to publish books in PDF here every day.These could be computer science and books on a lot of topics.Please don't answer the mail I sent here .Instead, you can write to me in privately People need physical access and money to access books It is worth remembering that we are still at the dawn of a new age of information technology, and fierce battles are being fought over the right of access to information in different countries.
Why should we pay for the distribution of information that can be easily and perfectly copied without any loss of the original quality?If there is a book you want to be published here, you can send me a private message. If it's in the archive, I'll post it here.
Unlimited access for everyone :-)
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Shawn K. Quinn