the Cornell University Library is now online, for free, no registration or login, just there, 76,474 books now tucked in at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/cornell
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

@teledyn
895 titles containing the words โ€œsheet musicโ€. Nice.
@teledyn what a treasure trove!

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As Trump grows his world war, preserving human knowledge is a very good idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz - Wikipedia

@Npars01 @teledyn

I figure ecovillages and intentional communities will serve the role of medieval monasteries in preserving knowledge.

@northernlights @teledyn

When elites brew a war, even monasteries & villages aren't safe from the warlords that follow in the wake of societal collapse.

Just ask China.

Irreplaceable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaolin_Monastery

https://shaolin.org/general-2/way-of-master/way43.html

Or read up on Lindisfarm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Lindisfarne

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/lindisfarne-priory/History/viking-raid/

Shaolin Monastery - Wikipedia

@teledyn
My favorite fiction writers are not represented. They do have some statistics books from a while ago.
@teledyn oh fuck yeah this is huge! may IA keep setting information free

@teledyn this is very cool and gives me a great chance to let a secret of mine loose:

Years ago I personally liberated several Carl Sagan lectures that were on cassette in the Cornell media library by digitizing them and have shelved them ever since. If anyone has any interest, let me know and maybe I can post or PM them.

@thesinkingbelle @teledyn torrent when? Asking for a friend in minecraft

@thesinkingbelle

You could upload to archive.org!

@thesinkingbelle Please consider putting them up on @internetarchive thanks!
@teledyn
Thank you for posting this!
@teledyn @FreakyFwoof omg this will be great! Nice!