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    grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world ·
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    What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

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    What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

    grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world ·
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    I’ll start by plugging Harvard’s free courses catalog as well as Udemy

    Edit: Gonna add 2 more I remembered-

    Blender - I wish I had more time to learn it, but I did start the infamous “Donut Tutorial” once!

    Watch Cartoons Online - Lots of good older stuff!

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      Making sure to keep it legal, right?

      Let’s stick with Project Gutenberg - Public domain ebooks and other media, spanning centuries. They’re incredibly important for keeping our literary past alive.

      I might have more later.

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        There’s also LibriVox for audiobooks of public domain books read by volunteers. They vary in quality but some of my favourite audiobooks are from there.

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          some of my favourite audiobooks are from there.

          Go on…

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            Public domain audiobooks, read by members of the community. It’s a beautiful thing - which is why AI scrapers seem currently determined to tear it down.

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              That’s not what I meant; I meant to go on with your specific favorites, what you listen to on there.

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            What @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org said seems to be correct, they apparently have some problems right now, I can’t reach the website. It worked yesterday, when I posted the link. I’ll try again later to link some I like, I hope they are able to resolve the problems soon.

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              Having looked at the forum, they seem to be under attack by a swarm of AI scrapers. If anyone can help them defend against the attack, please do so.

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                Oh, that sucks. This is why we can’t have nice things.

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                  Sadly, yeah. Unfortunately, I’m not really capable of sounding the alarm, and whoever runs the Xwitter page for Librivox have not posted anything in over a year. They should be crying out for aid, but there’s crickets in the public eye.

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          It was down at the moment I posted, I didn’t want to push more traffic until they were back online.

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        I mean, I’m down for illegal mentions too, but Lemmy might not be?

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          Not on your instance, no. The Canadians don’t care.

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        https://standardebooks.org/

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        I kinda forgot Project Gutenberg is a thing. I read a bunch of stuff on there in the late 90s/early 2000s, Arabian Nights, Paradise Lost, etc.

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        I got a cooking book from the 1800s there, sadly the pricing is a bit off, I don’t think that recipe is 19 pence anymore.

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          Well, you have to account for decimalization at least.

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            I did convert it from Lsd

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        Don’t forget Hathi trust. No one outside of humanities knows if it but it has a ton of material

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