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🔴 📖 **The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**

_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_

🔗 gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827

#BertrandRussell #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Download #Free #EBook #Book #Bookstodon #Philosophy #Metaphysics @bookstodon @philosophy

Project GutenbergThe Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand RussellFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

I finished getting my 170+ #eBooks off #Amazon and into #Calibre and stripped the #DRM from them. As an interesting aside, something that I was aware of but hadn't really considered is I can have Calibre scan news websites daily and create #ePub books to read on my device.

Now I'm just trying to find the right reading app to use on my device. The leading app right now is #Librera, but I miss having shelves / groups in it. But I love the integration of #ProjectGutenberg and #InternetArchive.

https://mastodon.social/@richardrawson/114036725076795944

MastodonRichard E. Rawson, Psy.D., MBA (@richardrawson@mastodon.social)🚨 𝗔𝗺𝗮𝘇𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. Starting February 26, 2025, Amazon will remove the "𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 & 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗲𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝗨𝗦𝗕" option. This means you 𝘄𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗹𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀—you’ll have to access them through Amazon’s ecosystem. If you value offline reading or personal backups, now’s the time to 𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗹𝗼𝗮𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗻. #Kindle #Amazon #Ebooks #DigitalOwnership https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb
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@cassidy I suggest either of these by @pluralistic :

Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books by Cory Doctorow
gutenberg.org/ebooks/11077

Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
gutenberg.org/ebooks/30142

Please make better cover art if possible for the one you're using, as the existing ones on #ProjectGutenberg are horrible.

I thought Little Brother was CC, not PD. Might want to double check.

Project GutenbergEbooks: Neither E, Nor Books by Cory DoctorowFree kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

Speaking of #Goodreads:

I'm *pretty sure* you could previously enter "official URLs" in book metadata. I used to add a whole bunch of links to #ProjectGutenberg website from, you know, Project Gutenberg releases that I entered to Goodreads.

...did #Amazon tell Goodreads "you've got to stop that shit, we've got a good scam going on here, making people in hurry occasionally pay for books they could be getting for free"? I don't want to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but, you know, I'm saying it's a possibility.

Also I need to investigate this further, but it seems that Goodreads has automatically generated ASINs for a bunch of random books (including the selfsame PG books I mentioned). Looking them up on Amazon will, obviously, lead nowhere. What's up with that?

One thing that mildly bugs my #ADHDbrain:

It's easy to get #ebooks from #ProjectGutenberg and stick them in #GooglePlayBooks, all right? BUT for a lot of old PG releases (old EPUB with no images), the Google Play Books just bugged out. Wrong metadata, grayed out or wrong cover image. So reading them was a real annoyance. Can't find books within this mess. Worst part is, Google Play Books won't let you edit the details. (...so all of my PDFs have correct cover art but just the filename.)

I just downloaded a few of the PG EPUB3 books - this seems work better, as at least these show the generic covers created by PG which are better than nothing.

Also I just deleted a book that has stuck in my Google Play Books catalogue this way for, like, a decade. (Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds) It apparently counted as three books. It just sat there in my library. Darkening my door. Bugging me. So today I redownloaded the EPUB3 version and stuck it there and whoop! works now kthxbye

Be annoying? I'm already an expert at that!

Declassified #CIAGuide to Sabotaging #Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "#SimpleSabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

by Jason Koebler Jason Koebler, Jan 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM

"A declassified World War II-era government guide to 'simple sabotage' is currently one of the most popular open source books on the internet. The book, called 'Simple Sabotage Field Manual,' was declassified in 2008 by the CIA and 'describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully #annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly.'

"Over the last week, the guide has surged to become the 5th-most-accessed book on #ProjectGutenberg, an open source repository of free and public domain ebooks. It is also the fifth most popular ebook on the site over the last 30 days, having been accessed nearly 60,000 times over the last month (just behind Romeo and Juliet).

"'#Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual #CitizenSaboteur can perform,' the guide begins. 'Simple sabotage does not require specially prepared tools or equipment; it is executed by an ordinary citizen who may or may not act individually and without the necessity for active connection with an organized group; and it is carried out in such a way as to involve a minimum danger of injury, detection, and reprisal.'"

Learn more:
404media.co/declassified-cia-g

Link to manual:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref
#Resistance #ResistTyranny #ResistFascism #USPol #WorldPol #Fascism #Tyranny

404 Media · Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly ViralThe World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.