[HN Gopher] In praise of public domain literature
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       In praise of public domain literature
        
       Author : kettunen
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2022-12-01 18:23 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | thedailymail wrote:
       | Here to echo that praise. One of my hobbies, starting many years
       | ago, is reading about 15th to 17th century England. This used to
       | be a bit expensive and often severely limited to secondary
       | sources that could be had in local bookshops and libraries (which
       | is even more limiting for me, as I live in Japan). But the
       | Internet Archive has dramatically changed that, with thousands
       | and thousands of scans of primary texts, from broadsides to
       | bibles to bestiaries to ballads. I imagine anyone interested in
       | any period or phenomenon that pre-dates the 1923 public domain
       | hard cutoff shares that excitement.
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       | The Internet Archive is free, but they accept donations - I would
       | say it's one of the best ways to spend money if you're a user or
       | fan of the preservation of historical texts and files.
        
         | cxr wrote:
         | It's been several years since the 1923 hard cutoff lapsed--in
         | the US, at least. The current cutoff is anything before 1927.
         | One month from today, it will be anything before 1928.
        
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