[p2p-research] lightfoot book sharing ?

[Michel Bauwens]

Asking review copies works for me as an individual, but sharing them is not
easy, as I take a long time to read them ...

a central place where people are willing to list the books they have, and
the place where they are, and if they're willing to make them travel, could,
given critical mass, work ...

I'm pretty sure a number of such schemes are already in place

http://p2pfoundation.net/Book_Commons ;
http://p2pfoundation.net/Book_Swapping ;
http://p2pfoundation.net/Social_Cataloging

(I have an updated Book Commons delicious tag as well)

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Dante-Gabryell Monson <
dante.monson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Any of us has tricks for having access to new books without buying them ? ,
> in addition to bookcrossing,and between our networks, in relation to topics
> of interest that we share.
>
> By reviewing them ?
> By having them ordered through teachers and researchers we know at
> university libraries ?
>
> If you review books, and get free copies, is there a way we could imagine
> to have books shared between us ?
>
> By lightfoot ?
>
> http://sharewiki.org/en/Lightfoot
>
> I cc Robin, as a small library is emerging at casarobino Amsterdam
> Nomadbase, and Topi, who builds up a small library in he's sailing boat,
> both possibly being transit nodes?
>
> I also wonder if there is a way to circumvent copyright on books, other
> then through excerpting, as to enable a digital copy.
>
> Would it be legal to retain one digital copy for each hardcover book?
>
> And circulate them on usb, in a deadswap way?
>
> http://deadswap.net/
>
> Can we imagine combining ideas such as lightfoot, deadswap, bookcrossing,
> and our own little thematic offline "project Gutenberg"?
>
> http://p2pfoundation.net/Project_Gutenberg
>
> Feel free to forward...
>
> Dante
> http://hitchwiki.org/en/dante
>
>


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