Re: Fwd: out of print garden/farm books online

**"Lawrence F. London, Jr." lflondon@mindspring.com>**

Margaret Lauterbach writes:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sorry, I do not know the legal ramifications of doing that.  There's a 
lawyer on the list, ask him. Or ask the list administrator (not Lon 
Rombough, the other fellow).  Margaret L

>Margaret,  I have a book that I'd like to share. I think it's op. but I'm not
>sure about copyrights etc.  Can you tell me whether I can consider sharing
>and how to do it?
>
>Barbara Emeneau
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

These two websites, already mentioned in this forum, have collections of
digitized out-of-print books agriculture, gardening, farming, health,
liberty & independence etc.:

http://www.soilandhealth.org
Soil & Health Library
Steve Solomon

From S&H:
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This is a free public library offering a tightly focused collection of
   books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient
   living, and personal development. Most of the titles in this library
   are out of print. Some can be quite hard to find; many of these books
   are old enough to be public domain materials. 
ALSO:
     * CONTACT US | YOUR PARTICIPATION | LONG RANGE PLAN
     * The books we provide are deciphered with Caere's OmniPage Pro or
       ABBYY's FineReader software, using Epson Perfection 1200/1240
flatbed scanners.
How You Can Help
       If you admire what is being done here and wish to assist this
       effort:
     * You can suggest titles for inclusion and discuss the content and
       direction of this library. Suggested titles may be old enough to
       be public domain or may be newer than that, but must be out of
       print. By Australian copyright rules we cannot offer books that
       are currently in print unless they are also old enough to be
       public domain material.
     * You can help scan and prepare books. This can be particularly
       enjoyable when you are deeply interested in reading the title or
       greatly admire the book. If you already have a flatbed scanner
and
       a PC, then this library can assist you to obtain use of effective
       optical character recognition software at no cost to you and
       provide guidance whilst you do your first book.
     * You can make a contribution to help cover the costs of this site.
       Expenses are not large, but having a domain name, offering
       significant amounts of bytes for free download on the world wide
       web, and buying old books do cost. Go to our financial statement.
     * You can participate in an ongoing discussion about how to
continue
       the work of this library after its founder passes on. If
       interested, click here and find out what provisions have already
       been made and what more might be done. The personal committment
of
       a few remarkable beings will eventually be needed to keep this
library going.
 Who Is Creating This Site?
       This site is created by Steve Solomon. Click here to go to my
       personal page and find out about me.
       Click here to communicate via email at ssolomon@soilandhealth.org
       Write via ordinary mail to:
           Steve Solomon
           P.O. Box 524
           Exeter, Tasmania 7275
           Australia

This website also has an elibrary - I don't know whether thay
collaborate with
the public in expanding the collection. I would recommend S&H for this. 

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html
JTF may have republished material gleaned from S&H.

LL
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