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Archive.com. All kinds of media from original 78 or cylinder recordings to books and film. Most are so old they’ve past into public domain. Some pretty much lost until someone saved them here. Newer content can be uploaded onto the site but it’s the old stuff that fascinates me.
Old recording from the early 1900’s
Gutenberg.org. If you always wanted to steal Bram Stoker’s Dracula and release it as your own you can now. It’s also in the public domain and can be downloaded for free. Along with about 100,000 print items. Everything Shakespeare has ever written or alleged to have written is here, too.
Hollywood mines the public domain so they don’t have to pay royalties. Will Smith has made a movie based on the book “I am Legend.” Don’t waste your money. This will be the better of the two.
Both sites are maintained by donation. It’s kind of scary to think of all those resources being lost. I think we’re getting the better part of the bargain.
Thank god for edutainment. Otherwise I wouldn’t learn anything.
