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How the NYPL confirmed 480,000 books were in the public domain
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has been engaged in an impressive project over the past year to figure out which books published between the years 1923 and 1964 are no longer protected by copyright (TL;DR 480,000 books). People interested in sort of thing have long known that books published before 1923 were out of…
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Combining interests in Lexicography, Genealogy and Technology
I’ve been blogging about genealogy for a few years on my other blog, Blood and Frogs: Jewish Genealogy and More. I’ve found that when I go off-topic too much some readers sometimes get annoyed, so I’m starting this new blog as a way to document my combined interest in the fields of Lexicography, Genealogy and…