Subj : E-Books & Sharing
To   : Dave Drum
From : Ben Collver
Date : Sat Apr 08 2023 10:15:50

  Re: E-Books was: Richyssoise
  By: Dave Drum to Ben Collver on Sat Apr 08 2023 04:57:00

 DD>  tome or two from https://archive.org (Internet Archive) to which I
 DD>  contribute some of my treasure ... as they are getting their arses
 DD>  sued off by the greedy publishing houses.

The more "the empire" tightens their grip, the more star systems, er,
hearts and minds will slip through their fingers.

 DD>  I've got a Little Free Library in front of my house with an arrow and
 DD>  PARK on the side. I'm on a busy 4-lane arterial street w/no shoulder
 DD>  to pull off onto. So I direct them to my driveway if they'd like. I'm
 DD>  considering putting a Little-Free-Pantry next to it.

Nice!  I read that the Little Free Library project was started by
anarchists in Portland, Oregon as consciousness-raising activism.

Eugene also has the Toolbox Project where they have a library of home
maintenance and landscaping tools that members can check out for a few
days at a time.  Membership is dirt cheap - something like $5 per year.
I definitely got my money's worth out of that and it makes sense to me
that not every household needs to own (or rent) all their tools.  Even
seasonal tools that everyone wants to use all at once, like an apple
press, can be shared to serve a lot of people, reduce waste, etc.

It represents a happy medium between the "I got mine, you get lost"
attitude on one end and full-on communal living on the other.

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