This site is inspired by Walter M Miller, Jr’s Story “A Canticle for Leibowitz”, and it is my hope that people will join in with what I’m trying to do.
My idea is for people to prepare editions of public domain, but out of print technical and scientific books and manuals, and make them available on print on demand sites such as lulu.com. Ideally, these books will be priced at cost (ie no markup), and will be avaliable for free download.
If you set the publisher of the books as being “The Albertian Order of Leibowitz”, and tag them Leibowitz, then that will provide a consistent way for people to find them.
A good source of books is likely to be Project Gutenberg, but if you use books from there, please do so in a manner which does not breach their terms.
Once you’ve published your edition, post about it here, with a link to the book’s page on the site you published it at, so we can all find it.
I’m also using the site for a research notebook – I’m going to post things that I want to research, and add notes as comments. Feel free to join in this – perhaps we could develop a research community posting questions, and contributing to each other’s research. Yes, I know that Wikipedia does most of this better, but this is intended for the stuff they don’t do, like primary research. If it’s already been done by someone, feel free to reply with a link to the answer – the idea is education, not brownie points, so the important thing is the answer, not how you got it. (Having said that, please credit your sources if it’s not primary research. Plagiarism is as big a no-no here as anywhere else).
If you join in with this community, either by contributing to the library, or by joining in with the research, feel free to use the initials OL (for Order of Leibowitz) after your name.
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