[lbo-talk] FYI - A Treasure Of Online Academic Books

Mike Beggs mikejbeggs at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 14:29:02 PST 2009


Wow, though, that is a pretty good collection!

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Bill Quimby <wquimby at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> Just recently discovered AAAARG.ORG at http://a.aaaarg.org
> - a treasure of online academic books - philosophy, history, theory,
> feminism, much badiou, much adorno, much marcuse, some classic
> marxist texts, mouffe and laclau, some entire issues of Historical
> Materialism, and on and on.
>
> And yes, Derrida!
>
> You can subscribe to a newsletter announcing just-added material.
>
> Not sure about the legal-challenges of services of this type, but they seem
> to be increasing - see http://www.scribd.com for another source of online
> material, for example. You might want to take advantage of them before
> they disappear!
>
> (Still though - I find it very difficult to read book-length texts on my
> comp
> and am always tempted to print - if not the whole text, portions of
> interest.
> Don't know if it is just me, but there do seem to be some serious "machine
> readability" issues to be resolved before ebooks are the norm.)
>
> - Bill
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