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Neil Protagonist
FX Monkey
Join date: 11 Jul 2003
Posts: 346
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08-09-2003 15:05
The Stanford Library is now online!
Just dropping a note to let everyone know that Second Life's first Library (to my knowledge) is now up and running, we have a small selection of books right now but the number is ever growing. Feel free to drop by at any time and visit, we stock classic literature (all written prior to 1923 for copyright reasons). If you have a specific request please leave a IM with me and I will do my best to make sure it gets in there and I will IM when it is in the library.
You can IM me for a Landmark or just fly by Stanford 149, 75.
Also all of the texts are free, if you would like to display the book at home or your office they can be purchased as well.
I hope you all enjoy it!
Neil
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Darwin Appleby
I Was Beaten With Satan
Join date: 14 Mar 2003
Posts: 2,779
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08-09-2003 15:06
Jonh Fairlight and I had a libarary I while back but it never worked out.
I'd like to see that, good luck to ya!
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Hamlet Linden
Linden Lab Employee
Join date: 9 Apr 2003
Posts: 882
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08-09-2003 15:17
Excellent, Neil, congrats! What books do you have available right now?
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Neil Protagonist
FX Monkey
Join date: 11 Jul 2003
Posts: 346
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08-09-2003 23:48
Currently available are....
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll (NIB)
Inferno - Dante Aligheri
Purgatory - Dante Aligheri (NIB)
Paradise - Dante Aligheri (NIB)
The Raven - Edgar Allen Poe
The Cask of Amontillado - Edgar Allen Poe
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allen Poe
The Lady of Shalott - Lord Alfred Tennyson
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock - TS Elliott
The Hollow Men - TS Elliott
Three poems by Adrienne Rich
Three poems by Robert Frost
Three poems by Syvia Plath
20,000 Leagues under the sea - Jules Verne (NIB)
NIB = Not in book, meaning its in notecards and ready to be compiled into a book, and texture created.
The list is short at the moment but it grows every day, drop by and check us out any time.
-Neil
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Candie Apple
Senior Mumbler
Join date: 1 Apr 2003
Posts: 477
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08-10-2003 08:53
Neil, I have book models for Poe and Carroll I'd like to donate. Also have other book models you're welcome to use for 'decor' if you'd like. Let's look for each other inworld.
Thanks,
Candie
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Yuki Sunshine
Designing Woman
Join date: 1 Apr 2003
Posts: 221
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08-13-2003 12:45
Library! Great idea. What do you guys think of stocking original fiction by SL authors? I think this could be really neat, but personally I would worry about copyright things when it comes to uploading my original stories.
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Nergal Fallingbridge
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Join date: 26 Jun 2003
Posts: 677
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08-13-2003 14:05
From: someone Originally posted by Yuki Sunshine
Library! Great idea. What do you guys think of stocking original fiction by SL authors? I think this could be really neat, but personally I would worry about copyright things when it comes to uploading my original stories. Yeah, the case tends to be that if it's been disseminated before, publishers get leery about picking up a story. So you could upload stories that you don't see yourself bothering to send to a publisher. (disclaimer: IANAL, I am not familiar with publishing laws, but I have been active in groups that had precisely this concern)
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Philip Linden
Founder, Linden Lab
Join date: 18 Nov 2002
Posts: 428
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08-14-2003 21:33
Very cool! I picked up a book.
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