Book slurp alert
Nov. 10th, 2021 06:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petrea_mitchellDave Langford has a news item too urgent to wait for the next Ansible:
The list seems to be skewed toward authors popular in the 1980s and earlier. I didn't find any of the newer popular authors I searched on, but did find multiple works from Anne McCaffrey, C. J. Cherryh, Tad Williams, and Stanislaw Lem in the list.
Searchers should note that there are a bunch of malformed records at the end of the spreadsheet where the author name column is blank but the name is included in the title column, so you will need to do a ctrl-F (or clover-F) search rather than just scrolling to where the name should be.
The National Library of New Zealand quietly announced in July that it's giving a huge tranche of discarded books from its overseas collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize them all and put them online. In October it was revealed equally quietly that authors who'd rather not be pirated have until 1 December to opt out. See here. I downloaded the immense spreadsheet of 428,232 titles and found only one by me. But 46 by or edited by Robert Silverberg; 24 by Michael Moorcock; several by Chris Priest; many more still-in-copyright titles.
The list seems to be skewed toward authors popular in the 1980s and earlier. I didn't find any of the newer popular authors I searched on, but did find multiple works from Anne McCaffrey, C. J. Cherryh, Tad Williams, and Stanislaw Lem in the list.
Searchers should note that there are a bunch of malformed records at the end of the spreadsheet where the author name column is blank but the name is included in the title column, so you will need to do a ctrl-F (or clover-F) search rather than just scrolling to where the name should be.
