politics The Digital Public Library of America has re-released the Mueller Report as a well-formatted ebook instead of a crappy PDF Cory Doctorow

hip hop Bay Area hip-hop archive opens in Oakland library Rusty Blazenhoff

maps Map shows how socialist New York City already was 127 years ago Elías Villoro

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

noads The man who destroyed skepticism Mitch Horowitz

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publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

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books In an age of disappearing prison libraries, jail profiteers provide "free" crapgadget tablets that charge prisoners by the minute to read Project Gutenberg ebooks Cory Doctorow

happy mutants A free, accessible, hyperlinked version of the Mueller Report Cory Doctorow

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net neutrality House Republicans propose poisoning Net Neutrality bill with Article-13-like liability Cory Doctorow

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Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

rip The time I interviewed Harlan Ellison about his lawsuit against a fan who posted his stories to Usenet Mark Frauenfelder

Science Frankenstein 200: America's science museums celebrate the bicentennial of Mary Shelley's Frankestein with a free, amazing transmedia experience Cory Doctorow

nyc How killing Net Neutrality irreparably harms public libraries and the communities they serve Cory Doctorow

law Defcon vote-hacking village shows that "secure" voting machines can be broken in minutes Cory Doctorow

scholarship Stanford Libraries post digital archive of drafts of Allen Ginsberg's HOWL Cory Doctorow