The Avalon Library: discussion and requests

[Bill Ryan]

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Dear Friends,

This is the companion thread to The Avalon Library, just opened. :sun:

The thread listing the contents and download links is a separate one, here...

The Avalon Library (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library)

... which will only contain the ongoing, growing index. This thread here is for comments, discussion, and requests, all of which we welcome. Please see the opening post of the Avalon Library thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library) for a fuller announcement and description of the project, which is available to members and guests alike.

Here's where the Avalon Library is:

http://AvalonLibrary.net

[Matt P]

I'm gonna give myself a little pat on the back for comparing Project Avalon to the Alexandria library a couple weeks ago. Ain't synchronicity grand? ;) Haha

Now I want a Project Avalon conference/retreat in Costa Rica! :) :)

Matt

[kanishk]

Wow, it’s like forum got new gadget or a configuration like add-on wings.

Bill do you have Revolt in the Stars film? If you have then please share it.

:blackwidow:





Reply from Bill: the film was never made.

[triquetra]

Thank you for starting this initiative Bill. I need to come forward with a message that will help connect some dots, and then close with a firm commitment to contribute an ongoing series of audio and later audio-video files over the coming years (this time for sure...). To explain...

I was to be the main provider of meditation files for the global synchronized meditation series on the old forum, an initiative started by one Astralwalker.

I can't tell you the half of what began to happen once committed to that project, which I looked back on as being "at the wrong time", but there's a lot more to that story.

Essentially immediately after committing to the project, before even joining the forum, a coordinated series of psychic attacks were imposed on me that were completely disastrous for the project. Within months my entire lab had to be packed up and was stored for years after. I was too proud to admit I had been defeated and limped along, trying to carry out my role without almost all of the needed equipment. I don't know what I was thinking. I just couldn't admit what had happened to me. Everything flipped over for me and I had to completely reground and re-find myself in the study of zen (I had become an energetic mess by that point, as I can now forgive myself for considering the circumstances).

I can't quite explain what happened to Astralwalker, only from what I witnessed, but there was a somewhat sudden change that went from the illuminating posts that generated a thread with over a million views by that time, to an almost desperate attempt to come through but in ways that strongly prioritized very unusual aspects, i.e. rotating crop circles. I know something similar got to him as well. You may have noticed sudden changes in others as well, who were similarly affected, at various times, for various reasons. These abrupt changes always have the same underlying reason.

So when I say "it was the wrong time", I think what I mean is that there was a very strong concentration of dark energies during that time frame, something I have been studying intensively ever since, because there are examples of it throughout history. They seem to usually follow peak events in the evolution of consciousness, to bring people back down. Or on occasion, they premeditate it, probably in an effort to quell it (clamping down before 2012 sure would make sense now wouldn't it).

Now, there is a reason why I am back again to try and do my part. 2014-2015 were different. There was an energetic counter-balancing. Many people indicated these were difficult years, well, it's because their spirit bodies were contributing to the resistance. There was a kind of struggle against those darker forces, and coming into 2016 there is the beginning of a real sign of opportunity. The tides finally turning.

We are in 2016 now, not 2008, and many things have changed in only a few years.
- Many have become much more resistant to these kinds of attacks through their training (and I greatly want to help with this via the files)
- The future that might come to be is much easier for all to see, most importantly the dark forces who don't want to take things so far they create a highly undesirable outcome for themselves (more on this in the future..)
- Most importantly, we are finally ready on nearly every level (in a forum like this one particularly, not necessarily elsewhere) to understand and act on a shared understanding that we need to directly create the change we want ourselves, Operation New Age is finally a failure on us when we stop thinking that help will arrive via some outside source like benevolent ETs. They can offer guidance, but the rest is entirely up to us.

With this all said, I don't want to keep coming back around and saying "soon, soon, it'll be ready". All I can say now is that I am in the best position I have ever been in my whole life to contribute what research has indicated are some highly potent audio and audiovisual files that serve a wide range of beneficial purposes:
- therapeutic, i.e. clearing of burdening or oppressive dark energy (baggage)
- resilience-generating, i.e. assisting to build a better energetic barrier to prevent further dark energy from attaching
- transcendental, i.e. allowing for opening and seeing through portals to higher dimensions.
- (this particular range of files will be only effective for the right target audience, "ascenders", completely useless to anyone else, but even still I'm more comfortable sharing them internally only at this stage, rather than posting them publicly)

These are grand claims indeed, so I will not dwell on matter, and the next contribution here will be the first file, whenever it is ready (it will be during this year, I will make that my mission). Group synchronized meditations can then be organized for research purposes (before going all out). I would like to see if people truly believe they feel a difference when coordinating with others vs just doing it on their own. The feedback will then help for producing even better files and coordinating the group sessions better as well.

Thank you once again for doing everything you do to help us all get back to Avalon.

[Anchor]

Great idea. I missed the fundraiser, but if you follow some of what I am about to say you might need to run another - in which case let me know ;)

Suggestions...

Mirror this data across more than one service. Ensure at least one of those is not a US based service. The material is probably copyright or some such equivalent nonsense. If this initiative ends up annoying some body enough they will use that to have some of all of it (the account suspended for example) taken down. If its mirrored you can save a lot of time and keep it available.

Find some volunteers to mirror the data (that is take custody of the entire data set) and thereby create multiple safe havens for it. I dont have 20Tb free, but I am willing to donate some space to that initiative.

Encrypted services in the style of Mega download are particularly attractive for this sort of purpose. Saves the hassle of needing to use tor or similar to conceal what it is that is being downloaded and makes it harder for the service provider to interfere or know what it is that you are hosting (which will almost certainly breach one or more of their terms and conditions!)

Most of these services have an aggregate monthly download cap (which is consumed by non-premium members of that service downloading files). Someone well resourced wanting to annoy you can easily download enough to blow your cap. It is wise therefore to ensure the links to the material are not widely distributed - and having it in the members only area is a good move.

You mentioned you had 20Tb of data. Large amounts of data is subject to bit rot, that is suffering from uncorrectable errors. Computer technology is often good at fixing errors and making the chances of it happening small, but when you multiply small chances by insanely large numbers (like 20Tb) the chances become certainties - and thus there are strategies to mitigate this. Paul will know about them, but for a long time files distributed by the often spotty and even as far back as the modem driven world of usenet news groups it was common to used things called "par" files, files of redundant data that meant the data set they protected could be reconstructed if any of it went missing or damaged. Uncorrectable bit errors in compressed files can make it really hard to get that the data within that archive.

[ThePythonicCow]

Great idea. I missed the fundraiser, but if you follow some of what I am about to say you might need to run another - in which case let me know ;)

Suggestions...
Good thoughts.

What I am working on (too soon to know if I will succeed) will have multiple copies of the data, at multiple locations, which could easily include various world-wide locations, all served up via a public facing web server that can easily run on any small VPS server. I have reserved the domain name AvalonLibrary.net for the web server (I habitually reserve the domain name I want first, before coding anything up, just to be sure I can get it.) Most likely, legal complaints would go to the AvalonLibrary.net server (myself and/or the VPS company hosting the AvalonLibrary site), but that public facing web server could be easily moved to some other VPS provider. Or complaints might come to this ProjectAvalon forum, as they do now, for linking to copyright material. Usually such complaints can be resolved easily by taking down the offending link expeditiously.

Bit rot is something I used to see more ... but even though I still run custom software that can look for such, I haven't seen any bits rot in a long time. I have seen disks fail and I continue to make stupid mistakes ... those problems haven't been fixed yet. So my ongoing strategy for preserving data is keeping various copies, in various places, resistant to various threats.

Writing my own front end server code will also enable me to throttle any particular abuser of the service, whether due to maliciousness or just excess enthusiasm. Just as with this ProjectAvalon forum itself, my ability to provide custom code, hooked into various places in the kernel and web server, is key to resisting various denial of service attacks (to the extent that we can ... certainly the big black hats could take us down and keep us down, if they had a mind to.)

My favorite VPS provider is linode.com - you can see their pricing here: https://www.linode.com/pricing.

My intended backend datastore is Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3). Their pricing structure is more complicated, pay-as-you-go, but in our case, the major portion of that bill will likely end up being the download bandwidth, for which they charge about $100 per terabyte downloaded. If I can figure out how to work BitTorrent into this, to distribute the bandwidth costs amongst users, especially for the more popular titles, without being too much of a technical hurdle for our less geeky members, that could help. Perhaps with some social engineering we could have monthly "sharing fests", in which those who want to download a lot of this material all show up for a day with BitTorrent enabled, keeping their PC's online to share with others to the extent they can.

Caution: The above "forward looking statements" may or may not ever bear any relationship to reality.

(*) VPS - Virtual Private Server: A smaller web server, running on shared hardware, but within a dedicated virtual operating system, unlike larger services, such as this forum, which run on dedicated hardware machines, or even larger services, such Google, which run in large dedicated buildings full of hardware.

[uzn]

Maybe we should consider making an upload-Thread were we can post stuff that is not on Youtube. For your viewing, validating and consideration if the uploaded stuff is worth being implemented in the famous Avalonian Library.

[Hym]

The upload feature would help, however it is inserted, as there are videos like Vimeo that I have not been able to download.

This additional upgrade, i.e. the Avalon Library itself, will most likely contribute to deeper insights into this and other worlds, corroborating a much more detailed and factual accounting of studied subjects, alongside the necessity of broader simplifications of the interactions between them. Detail sometimes connects us to living and sometimes it takes our awareness away from the endless Now.

I remind myself daily, as it is obvious to many here, of balance when faced with the possibilities of deep research, as the opportunities presented by the Avalon Library present.
I am aware of the unnatural nature of research and the 2d nature of these tools, all of which often, by their relatively primitive format (relative to the disconnected mechanics of the human brain), are a detriment to instantaneous inspiration and creativity. This is why some seemingly personal, comedic and song-based threads are necessary to retain the balance integral to living. In fact the respite from detail many times contains the insight and solution to the cluster**** of detail.

[uzn]

@Hym: You can download Vids from Vimeo with a lot of free programs like jdownloader.
http://jdownloader.org/
unfortunatly jdownloader requires java to run, if u can live with that than Njoy

[kirolak]

Quite a cheek on my part to suggest anything, as I wasn't able to make any contribution :( but perhaps you'd be interested in including Michael Topper's Magnum Organum? I know it is available in the Biblioteca Pleyades, too, so perhaps it's not suitable for the Library?

[Bill Ryan]

Quite a cheek on my part to suggest anything, as I wasn't able to make any contribution :( but perhaps you'd be interested in including Michael Topper's Magnum Organum? I know it is available in the Biblioteca Pleyades, too, so perhaps it's not suitable for the Library?

Many thanks — it's here...
http://bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_autor_topper.htm
... with an introduction here...
http://bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/topper/topper08.htm
... and the full PDF is here:
http://bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/MagnumOrganum.pdf

There could be a few exceptions, and for sure, it'll all evolve organically. :sun: :flower: :sun: But the way I envisage it at the moment is that the Library is really intended for material that's hard to find, hard to download, hard to convert from one format to another, has restricted access in some form, or in other ways may not be all that straightforward for people to find and archive themselves from readily available sources on the net. Otherwise. it'd be full up within days! :)

To condense all that, it's really an additional resource for people wanting to find or share things that may not be all that readily or easily available otherwise.

[regnak]

alien digest 5 and 6

alien digest 1-4 are available on project Camelot site

:silent:

[Bill Ryan]

alien digest 5 and 6

alien digest 1-4 are available on project Camelot site

Thanks — but as best I know, there were only ever four, all archived here:


http://projectcamelot.org/Alien_Digest_Vol_1.pdf
http://projectcamelot.org/Alien_Digest_Vol_2.pdf
http://projectcamelot.org/Alien_Digest_Vol_3.pdf
http://projectcamelot.org/Alien_Digest_Vol_4.pdf

[bettye198]

Thank you Bill for your concerted efforts. Perhaps we can find some out of print books that have valuable information, no longer on the retail market. I fell across as example, Dr. Peebles MD who wrote a book in 1900 about the real Truth of the vaccinations and why they exist. So there is much data on PDF files that will enfold with Avalon Library

[Bill Ryan]

Thank you Bill for your concerted efforts. Perhaps we can find some out of print books that have valuable information, no longer on the retail market. I fell across as example, Dr. Peebles MD who wrote a book in 1900 about the real Truth of the vaccinations and why they exist. So there is much data on PDF files that will enfold with Avalon Library

Yes, indeed — I have nearly 3,000 ebooks (about 25 Gb of material). Not sure yet how best to share all that! Uploading them individually would be a massive job. Easier would be to upload them in a small number of separate downloadable but still quite large files (maybe in categories)... but there's still a lot of work there. On the To Do list, though. :star:

[TargeT]

Now I want a Project Avalon conference/retreat in Costa Rica! :) :)

Matt

Make it St Croix, USVI and I'll coordinate it ;)



Organization of the library is very important, especially as it grows... I'd request that is taken into consideration & an intelligent system is laid out.

People come to websites like this for many reasons, but one is that they want other peoples filtration on topics, their opinions & to seek "vetted" information... information that isn't a waste of time.

I propose an informational rating system... generally I would say an automated method is best (see Reddit's "up vote" system, that naturally filters topics the site deeps as more "worthy" to the "top of hte list"). I do not have the actual execution of this in mind yet.

but that might be a bridge too far.


If I can figure out how to work BitTorrent into this, to distribute the bandwidth costs amongst users, especially for the more popular titles, without being too much of a technical hurdle for our less geeky members, that could help.


Why not build the entire thing on bit torrent and have a few of the "geeky users" host initially? (then as more people download the content would get more and more distributed; though you'd have to have at least a few dedicated seeds.) My upload is only 2mb/s but for text I could serve a lot of people via torrent.


we "could" do this entirely cost free and organically, but that would take a bit more effort from the unpaid workers.

[Bill Ryan]

I have nearly 3,000 ebooks (about 25 Gb of material). Not sure yet how best to share all that! Uploading them individually would be a massive job. Easier would be to upload them in a small number of separate downloadable but still quite large files (maybe in categories)... but there's still a lot of work there. On the To Do list, though. :star:

A little more on this. The problem using WeTransfer (which we're using now) is that everything uploaded is automatically in a big zip file... so that there's no way to download one book from a large upload of hundreds (or even thousands). One would have to download them ALL, and then pick out the one book one wanted.

But (and Paul is looking into this) — if we used Amazon AWS, the facility might exist to just have a menu, just like the folder structure on your own computer, from which one could pick out and download a single book from all the others. That'd be ideal, if it's possible. We'll confirm.

[Ewan]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89530-Why-is-the-Smithsonian-hiding-history&p=1055154&viewfull=1#post1055154

"The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America; The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up" by Richard J. Dewhurst

Well this one is hard to find unless you already have it Bill?

[Bill Ryan]

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89530-Why-is-the-Smithsonian-hiding-history&p=1055154&viewfull=1#post1055154

"The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America; The Missing Skeletons and the Great Smithsonian Cover-Up" by Richard J. Dewhurst

Well this one is hard to find unless you already have it Bill?

Sorry! I don't have that. But there's an excellent (long!) summary here, if you've not already seen it.

https://grahamhancock.com/dewhurstr1

[ThePythonicCow]

But (and Paul is looking into this) — if we used Amazon AWS, the facility might exist to just have a menu, just like the folder structure on your own computer, from which one could pick out and download a single book from all the others. That'd be ideal, if it's possible. We'll confirm.
Well, it's possible, in theory. The question which will remain unanswered for a little while is how far I can get. I've figured out what basic pieces I need, and how they go together, and I've started working on the initial, simplest form of it. My Post #6 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89860-The-Avalon-Library-discussion-and-requests&p=1058656&viewfull=1#post1058656), above, has the overall architecture.

I understand that uploaders, starting with Bill, would like to easily be able to select oodles of stuff on their local drive, quickly and easily, and then upload it all, keeping separate files separate. But some work will be desirable on each item, collecting a bit of metadata, such as title, author, publication date, and brief description.

I understand that browsers and downloaders would like to be able to browse the material in various ways, such as a Table of Contents, by author, searching, by user provided ratings and reviews, ...

I'm pretty sure that not all of the above will happen ... at least not anytime soon. But I hope to get enough up to get it working that it is usable, and then be able to refine it, as available interest, energy and focus allow.

[Anchor]

Yes, indeed — I have nearly 3,000 ebooks (about 25 Gb of material). Not sure yet how best to share all that! Uploading them individually would be a massive job. Easier would be to upload them in a small number of separate downloadable but still quite large files (maybe in categories)... but there's still a lot of work there. On the To Do list, though. :star:

Uploading large numbers should not be too hard. Most of these services expose a file transfer service like SFTP or FTPS facility (even FTP if you dont care about security), it is pretty standard, and you could use then use something like filezilla to log in to that and then you simply drag and drop the files, filezilla takes care of the rest.

I have not been able to determine if Wetransfer supports this owing to the annoying lack of technical information that is available on their website - every premium host I use does support this though so perhaps they do.

[ThePythonicCow]

Most of these services expose a file transfer service like SFTP or FTPS facility
Aha - that was the key to the design I was looking for - Thanks!

Amazon S3 storage does not have anything like an SFTP or other conventional file uploading interface. It has it's own API, the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/Welcome.html). I found one Mac program, Panic's Transmit (https://www.panic.com/transmit/), that could handle that API with a user friendly interface similar to what it provides for SFTP services, but in general, user friendly interfaces to S3, from a variety of systems, Windows, Linux and Mac, are few and far between these days, and none of the user friendly ones are free that I know of.

However I now know exactly how I can make a full featured SFTP server, that I can run on any old cheap VPS server, even the $5/month fly-by-night ones, that any SFTP client, which are widely available for a variety of clients (e.g., Filezilla) can work with easily.

I will be blending pieces of tmpfs (a Linux RAM disk), OpenSSH (the best open source SSH and SFTP server), and tar or cpio. I will store the library meta-data (file and directory names and attributes, but not the file contents) as a tarball or cpio archive, in its own S3 file, along with the contents of each uploaded file, as their own distinct S3 files. When someone (who is allowed to upload to our Library, such as initially Bill) wants to browse or update whatever they have uploaded, they will fire up their favorite SFTP client, connect to the server running my program as if it were just another SFTP server, and browse and upload to their heart's content (within any per-account limits.) My server program, a modified OpenSSH SFTP server, will convert those SFTP commands to and from the Amazon S3 API, the tarball or cpio archive to and from a tmpfs file system, run the adapted OpenSSH SFTP code against that tmpfs file system, and update our AvalonLibrary store on Amazon S3 accordingly.

If I were hiring an experienced programmer to code this, I might expect it to take (wild guess) six months. However I happen to have exactly the right skill set (except for being relatively new to the S3 API, which I have been looking for an excuse to learn for a decade now) for this job, and I have done surprisingly similar adaptions in the past, with very high quality results, in just a couple of weeks. I am older and slower now, so I am estimating "a few" weeks.

This should provide a long term, quality, solution for people uploading to our Library. As soon as I have this piece coded and working, I can move over to Amazon S3 whatever has already been uploaded to WeTransfer. This solution should also provide a piece of code that I can release into the open source world, that others might actually find useful -- a better way to upload to S3 that allows using existing SFTP clients. Packaging and releasing open source projects is also one of my deep skill sets.

The questions of how best to browse, search and access the library remain. Initially, it can continue to be via postings here, such as in Bill's thread The Avalon Library (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library), just with links to the files on Amazon S3, instead of to WeTransfer. We (I) will move over the files from WeTransfer to S3, when it's ready, if I succeed at the above task, and update the links in Bill's The Avalon Library (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library) thread.

I was toying in my mind with various combinations such as above, but it wasn't until I read your post, Anchor, that it all came together into the "right" solution.

(Don't worry if almost none of the above made any sense ... I'm a happy camper and off to do a bit of the sort of file system and interface munging coding that I have been expert in for many decades.)

[ThePythonicCow]

This solution should also provide a piece of code that I can release into the open source world, that others might actually find useful -- a better way to upload to S3 that allows using existing SFTP clients. Packaging and releasing open source projects is also one of my deep skill sets.
Well well ... thinking that the obvious name for such a project would be "s3fs", I want searching to see if that name was taken.

It was ... "s3fs" is an S3 file system mounted using the "fuse" faux file system wrapper available in Linux (rather than the "tmpfs" file system I mentioned above.)

It looks like someone may have beaten me to the interesting part of this, with an already mature and well used open source product.

So perhaps this doesn't get to be a new open source project for me, and perhaps my "few weeks" can be made a little quicker and easier.

I'll have to evaluate the suitability of the existing "s3fs" project for our use in The Avalon Library, and I'll still have to connect the other pieces, such as the SFTP server (using OpenSSH) and user account management. But that's more "system admin" work than it is "serious hacking" work.

Perhaps ... offhand, without having looked, it's not obvious to me how the s3fs project can maintain a reasonable permission model for multiple users, since those per-file attributes (owner, group and read-write-exec perms) are not per-file attributes of Amazon S3 files.

[RunningDeer]

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-smiley-with-sign-055883_zpsxnoktfes.GIF

Paul, aside from FTP (a Fetch software which is my meager attempt to pretend that I know more than I do)...what you said...is way over my head. But I still wanted to send along a
great-big-appreciation-and-thanks.

............http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/smilies/smileys-smiley-with-sign-878515_zpsv7bx8wio.gif

..........................http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Recovered/smileys-smiley-with-sign-962426_zps7ejkc4zt.GIF

[Carmody]

Ingo Swann: Penetration. (http://www.wanttoknow.info/ufos/penetration.ingo_swann.pdf) (probably in Bill's big ebook file)

[Bill Ryan]

Ingo Swann: Penetration. (http://www.wanttoknow.info/ufos/penetration.ingo_swann.pdf) (probably in Bill's big ebook file)

Was that a request to make the book available, or to access it yourself? I couldn't quite tell! :)

(It's here —> http://projectavalon.net/Ingo_Swann_-_Penetration_-_The_Question_of_Extraterrestrial_and_Human_Telepathy.pdf)

[Aurelius]

does anyone have the following:

1. the documentary Michael Horn put together on Billy Meier called "And Did They Listen" ?

2. an archive of Daniel Fry's monthly newsletter called "Understanding" (particularly the first 2 - 3 yrs) ?

... thank you in advance !

[TargeT]

Paul, aside from FTP (a Fetch software which is my meager attempt to pretend that I know more than I do)...what you said...is way over my head. But I still wanted to send along a
great-big-appreciation-and-thanks.


Listed from worst to best:

TFTP = Trivial File Transfer Protocol (Uses UDP (user datagram protocol) instead of TCP (Transmission control protocol); this means the connect is "best effort" & not guaranteed)
FTP = File Transfer Protocol (unsecure, been around for ever, uses TCP)
FTPS = Secure File Transfer Protocol (better, passwords aren't sent in clear text anymore, traffic is SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) tunneled (encrypted))
SFTP is a protocol which uses the file transfer services of an SSH server (or equivalent provider), so the protocol is SSH (Secure Shell) as opposed to SSL.

You weren't too far off ;)

[Vektor]

Does avalon library maybe have a book named Cosmic Top Secrets by William Hamilton III ... if it does can someone send it to me , thanks :)






Reply from Bill: No I haven't! I'd like to read it myself. I've copied this request post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9462-Interesting-Free-Books-in-PDF&p=1064206&viewfull=1#post1064206) to the Interesting Free Books in PDF thread.

[ThePythonicCow]

A brief update - for the last couple of weeks, I've been distracted with other matters in my life, but those items are mostly resolved - just one item left which shouldn't take more than an another day.

I have been setting up a new home for the Avalon Library, using the "cloud" storage of Amazon's Web Services (AWS), which will provide a longer lasting, higher quality, solution, for (usually) less money. Amazon only charges for what is used (stored, uploaded and/or downloaded), not a fixed amount, and so long as you pay your bill, there is no practical limit.

I have been using the Amazon cloud as one of our forum's back up servers for several years now. For example, the bill for last month's use of Amazon by my backups was the Grand Total of $0.17 <grin>. The Avalon Library usage would be a bit more, depending on amount downloaded, but still likely quite small.

Uploading by Bill and any others he chooses to provide material would be via SFTP, a protocol that is well supported by a variety of Windows, Mac and Linux file transfer clients, to a web server that I am developing. As of three weeks ago (before I got distracted a wee bit) I had that web server working well enough that I could use it, but it still needed some rough edges polished off, before anyone else would find it usable.

Downloading would initially by via a link embedded in a post here on the forum, just as it is now with WeTransfer hosted files. I will move the files that Bill is currently hosting on WeTransfer over to the Amazon service, so that we can then stop the monthly WeTransfer fee.

I and others have considered various ideas for other ways of indexing, organizing and searching the Library, in addition to posts on Avalon threads such as this, but none of those ideas have yet crystallized into committed projects, resources, or schedules.

Within a day or two, I expect to resume working on this next phase of this Avalon Library project, getting the Amazon cloud based version working and getting the existing Library moved over from WeTransfer to Amazon. I estimate that I have another week or two left to finish that phase (though asking a software programmer how long something will take is not a reliable way to predict the future.)

[Bill Ryan]

A brief update -What this means, in practical terms (we believe!) is that once all that's in place, I can upload all my e-books — a lot of them — and have them individually selectable, rather than having to download a huge 1 Gb file just for one specific book. That should makes the Library pretty useful, we think.

[norman]

The pay per use thing probably implies a need to keep data storage and transfere to a prudent limit.

That's tricky, as regards the ideas that have swirled around my head jently in recent weeks. Simple because I have a notion that Avalon multi-media could be a growing thing around here, and multi-media is hefty on the data mass.

My "ideal" scheme, would be sub groups of shareable sub folders that can be given their own limited access and folder management tools.

With that kind of setup, Avalon could develop it's own multimedia network/etc where contributing editors producers and so on can handle whatever file sharing and finishing they need to do.

Having the library right there as part of the complex could be great.


Having said that, as I was writing it, I realised that may be far more than has so far been anticipated.

[RunningDeer]

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/Photoshop/Paul-cow_zps0m3ca7fs.JPG
♡

[togetherasone]

May I request or ask for some of Lou Baldin's books please.
And if anyone has an old condensed transcript of his online Q&A that was 473 pages.

Thanks!

[Bill Ryan]

May I request or ask for some of Lou Baldin's books please.
And if anyone has an old condensed transcript of his online Q&A that was 473 pages.


Yes, I have all that. Right here: :thumbsup:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library&p=1066641&viewfull=1#post1066641

[Wide-Eyed]

Ingo Swann: Penetration. (http://www.wanttoknow.info/ufos/penetration.ingo_swann.pdf) (probably in Bill's big ebook file)

Was that a request to make the book available, or to access it yourself? I couldn't quite tell! :)

(It's here —> http://projectavalon.net/Ingo_Swann_-_Penetration_-_The_Question_of_Extraterrestrial_and_Human_Telepathy.pdf)

Excellent read , thanks for that Bill it was one of the first things I down loaded from PA when I signed up here, BTW, I thought I told either Paul or posted that I have several years of The International Remote Viewing Association - IRVA's annual conferences on DVD with probably 15 lectures or presentations per year from their members. If Paul PM's his address I will send them down to Texas. My friends worked extensively with Ingo Swann . It might be a good interview for you Bill.

[togetherasone]

May I request or ask for some of Lou Baldin's books please.
And if anyone has an old condensed transcript of his online Q&A that was 473 pages.


Yes, I have all that. Right here: :thumbsup:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library&p=1066641&viewfull=1#post1066641

Thanks Bill! :highfive:

[norman]

Searchable.

I'm wondering if there's a simple free application that lays out all the title and header data of many kinds of textual and time-based media files, and gives good clear tools to standardize it all and make it incredibly searchable. (?)http://i1371.photobucket.com/albums/ag289/mclies2/barcode-progress_zps78697742.jpg

[ThePythonicCow]

BTW, I thought I told either Paul or posted that I have several years of The International Remote Viewing Association - IRVA's annual conferences on DVD with probably 15 lectures or presentations per year from their members. If Paul PM's his address I will send them down to Texas. My friends worked extensively with Ingo Swann . It might be a good interview for you Bill.

Ah - you did post of this, here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89699-A-request-for-funding-for-a-resource-to-benefit-all-members&p=1056917&viewfull=1#post1056917).

I should have replied at the time, sorry.

One concern for me is personal ... remote viewing doesn't happen to be a particular focus of mine at present, so I wasn't eager to spend the time uploading them to the Avalon Library (once I have that Library working on Amazon cloud storage.)

If, as you said in the above linked post, you have some 35 DVD's, and if each DVD is mostly full, say 4 GBytes (gigabytes) each, then at 3 cents per month per GByte for cloud storage, that's about 4*35*.03 or about $4/month for storage. This in and of itself is more than the total amount of space allowed on Bill's WeTransfer account that we're using right now, so sharing these via the Avalon Library will have to await my completing the move to the Amazon cloud. The cost to us for each download of each DVD, if it has say 4 GBytes, at $0.09 per GByte, which is $0.36 (36 cents per DVD download). Someone downloading all 35 DVD's would cost us 35 * 0.36 == $12.60. Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage (S3) pricing is available here (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/).

Because video files are bigger, video costs more than audio, which in turn costs more than textual documents such as pdf's.

So ... this starts to get complicated :).

Perhaps someone with a decent Internet connection and an interest in remote viewing would be able to volunteer to upload this material to our Avalon Library Amazon cloud storage, when the time comes.

Perhaps I'll to develop a way to throttle downloads and/or to share download bandwidth between people doing downloads using bittorrent, ... All that will require more thought and development, beyond the initial work to move the Avalon Library to the Amazon cloud. However just providing unlimited public access to large amounts (100's of GBytes) of interesting data freely downloadable could get more expensive than we'd like, and it could do this quickly. The Amazon cloud can easily handle thousands, perhaps millions, of simultaneous high bandwidth downloads.

There's a good chance that developing a way to throttle downloads will be the next task on my todo list, once I have the initial Amazon cloud based Avalon Library working. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a number of facilities that can be used to implement such a throttle ... it's just a "small matter of programming".

===

P.S. - I see that the IRVA Remote Viewing Conference Videos are available at the IRVA Library (http://www.irva.org/library/index.html) for downloading for IRVA members only. IRVA membership starts at $45/year (http://www.irva.org/join/index.html). So it would seem to me to be unfair to IRVA for Avalon to provide that material for free.

[Wide-Eyed]

BTW, I thought I told either Paul or posted that I have several years of The International Remote Viewing Association - IRVA's annual conferences on DVD with probably 15 lectures or presentations per year from their members. If Paul PM's his address I will send them down to Texas. My friends worked extensively with Ingo Swann . It might be a good interview for you Bill.

Ah - you did post of this, here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89699-A-request-for-funding-for-a-resource-to-benefit-all-members&p=1056917&viewfull=1#post1056917).

I should have replied at the time, sorry.

One concern for me is personal ... remote viewing doesn't happen to be a particular focus of mine at present, so I wasn't eager to spend the time uploading them to the Avalon Library (once I have that Library working on Amazon cloud storage.)

If, as you said in the above linked post, you have some 35 DVD's, and if each DVD is mostly full, say 4 GBytes (gigabytes) each, then at 3 cents per month per GByte for cloud storage, that's about 4*35*.03 or about $4/month for storage. This in and of itself is more than the total amount of space allowed on Bill's WeTransfer account that we're using right now, so sharing these via the Avalon Library will have to await my completing the move to the Amazon cloud. The cost to us for each download of each DVD, if it has say 4 GBytes, at $0.09 per GByte, which is $0.36 (36 cents per DVD download). Someone downloading all 35 DVD's would cost us 35 * 0.36 == $12.60. Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud storage (S3) pricing is available here (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/).

Because video files are bigger, video costs more than audio, which in turn costs more than textual documents such as pdf's.

So ... this starts to get complicated :).

Perhaps someone with a decent Internet connection and an interest in remote viewing would be able to volunteer to upload this material to our Avalon Library Amazon cloud storage, when the time comes.

Perhaps I'll to develop a way to throttle downloads and/or to share download bandwidth between people doing downloads using bittorrent, ... All that will require more thought and development, beyond the initial work to move the Avalon Library to the Amazon cloud. However just providing unlimited public access to large amounts (100's of GBytes) of interesting data freely downloadable could get more expensive than we'd like, and it could do this quickly. The Amazon cloud can easily handle thousands, perhaps millions, of simultaneous high bandwidth downloads.

There's a good chance that developing a way to throttle downloads will be the next task on my todo list, once I have the initial Amazon cloud based Avalon Library working. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a number of facilities that can be used to implement such a throttle ... it's just a "small matter of programming".

===

P.S. - I see that the IRVA Remote Viewing Conference Videos are available at the IRVA Library (http://www.irva.org/library/index.html) for downloading for IRVA members only. IRVA membership starts at $45/year (http://www.irva.org/join/index.html). So it would seem to me to be unfair to IRVA for Avalon to provide that material for free.

Thank you for your research time and detailed reply regarding DVD's, I would not want to be unfair to IRVA or have PA saddled with expense. Perhaps we'll find select lectures and presentations that would serve the library while benefiting IRVA. I will look into it and get back to PA.:thumbsup:

[Vektor]

Do you have Cosmic Top Secrets by Hamilton III?

[Rhah]

I would like to request a .pdf copy of the book called "Why Johnny Can't Come Home" by Noreen Gosch.. I have searched high and low for a copy but haven't been able to find it anywhere. Neither in print or digital.

I did notice that they were still selling copies on the official website johnnygosch.com, though, unfortunately, i do not own a credit card. Plus I have also come to understand that Noreen Gosch might actually not have ownership over this website anymore.

So, if anyone happens to have a copy in .pdf format, I would very much appreciate it if you would be willing to share it with us. Thanks! :)

[Bill Ryan]

Do you have Cosmic Top Secrets by Hamilton III?

I should answer this, as it was addressed directly to the library... my apologies for not doing so.

I did look, and was surprised to find that I didn't have it. I'd be interested to see it, too.


I would like to request a .pdf copy of the book called "Why Johnny Can't Come Home" by Noreen Gosch.

I don't have that... of course, maybe another member might, or might well be able to help you buy it.

[RunningDeer]

I would like to request a .pdf copy of the book called "Why Johnny Can't Come Home" by Noreen Gosch.. I have searched high and low for a copy but haven't been able to find it anywhere. Neither in print or digital.

I did notice that they were still selling copies on the official website johnnygosch.com, though, unfortunately, i do not own a credit card. Plus I have also come to understand that Noreen Gosch might actually not have ownership over this website anymore.

So, if anyone happens to have a copy in .pdf format, I would very much appreciate it if you would be willing to share it with us. Thanks! :)

Here’s a 32 page pdf (http://www.johnnygosch.com/images/chap.pdf), I’m not sure if it’s the full version of “Why Johnny Can't Come Home" by Noreen Gosch and an interview article (http://hubpages.com/politics/The-Tragedy-Of-Johnny-Gosch) with Noreen Gosch that includes three videos and lastly, a Youtube video:


WHY JOHNNY CAN'T COME HOME
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Published on Jul 26, 2015

The Johnny Gosch Foundation:
http://johnnygosch.com/

As most of you already know, Noreen Gosch is the mother of Johnny Gosch. When Johnny Gosch was 12 years of age and working as a paperboy for the Des Moines Register newspaper, he was kidnapped not far from his home. It was a quiet Sunday morning, around 6A.M. on September 5, 1982, when Johnny had left his home on foot to collect his assigned stack of newspapers to deliver around his quintessential "Leave It To Beaver" neighborhood. Just as he was about to pick up his bundle of newspapers, he was forcefully nabbed off the street, shoved into the back seat of a strange car, drugged, and permanently removed from his family. Johnny's childhood would be destroyed while his family was shattered and consigned to a life of endless grieving.

Years later, on February 5, 1999, in a civil action in a U.S. District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, Paul Bonacci painstakingly recounted the sordid, heart breaking details of Johnny Gosch's abduction and forced participation in an elite government sponsored pedophile sex slave ring, that dehumanized and controlled its young, hapless victims using techniques such as drugs, murder, satanic rituals, sexual abuse, and torture, resulting in MPD (multiple-personality disorder). The children were systemically programmed and "zombified" as part of the CIA's ongoing, under-the-radar MK-ULTRA (MK = mind control) mind control program.

Bonacci's attorney was John DeCamp, who later authored a revealing and ground breaking book called The Franklin Cover-Up, which is a no-holds-barred expose of the pedophile ring that had abducted both Johnny Gosch and Paul Bonacci. Paul Bonacci knew what he was talking about regarding Johnny Gosch's kidnapping in 1982. Why? Because he was there! Bonacci's role within the pedophile ring was simultaneously that of a victim and a perpetrator. Actually, the then 16 year old Paul Bonacci was the person who had lured and then forced Johnny into the back of the car that screeched away on that fateful September morning. It was Bonacci who had helped drug Johnny, and then proceeded to initiate him into the group, his new "family", by sexually assaulting him.

Bonacci himself had been abducted and pressed into service as an MK-ULTRA sex slave by Lawrence E. King, a high ranking Republican operative who managed Franklin Savings and Loan in Omaha, Nebraska as a front for an internationally organized pedophile ring. He ran this pedophile ring for the benefit of government, military, and big business elites, whose patronage included political blackmail, snuff films, kiddy pornography, prostitution, illegal arms and drug running, extortion, and money laundering. This was the same Larry King who allegedly ran the infamous midnight "call-boy" tours of the White House, along with Craig Spence. Amazingly, the White House pedophile story was headlined by the Washington Times, on June 29, 1989.

This brings us full circle back to Noreen Gosch. She has been an indefatigable seeker of the truth in all things related to her son's kidnapping. It was Noreen's personally funded private detectives, not the police or any branch of law enforcement, who finally uncovered the culprits who were behind Johnny's kidnapping, including why they had chosen him, for what purpose, and what they had done to him as a result.

Noreen has been instrumental in exposing organized pedophilia, its infrastructure and some of the personalities behind it, as well as helping to expose the pedophile network's interlocking relationships with elite hierarchies of political, military, and corporate power.

For the past 23 years, Noreen has dedicated her life to educating parents, politicians, police, teachers, children and anyone who would listen to the sordid facts behind child abductions in America, including the hidden menace of organized pedophile rings.

Noreen's continued goal is to bring out the truth on Johnny's kidnapping and is prepared to do what ever is necessary.

Noreen wrote "Why Johnny Can't Come Home" which has been available in bookstores since November 2000. It is the story of her eighteen-year journey to solve Johnny's case.

WHY JOHNNY CAN'T COME HOME

Book Content:

SECTION ONE

1 THEY HAVE NO CRIME…. I HAVE NO SON!
2 SURVIVAL… A WAY OF LIFE FOR NOREEN GOSCH
3 CIA ON THE SCENE 1983
4 JOHN GOSCH .......JOHNNY’S FATHER
5 JOHNNY DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
6 BILL
7 ON THE AUCTION BLOCK

SECTION TWO

8 THE FRANKLIN COVER-UP
9 PAUL BONACCI…. WHAT HE ENDURED
10 THE BONACCI DOCUMENTS -
11 A MAN CALLED RUSTY….
12 SENATOR JOHN DECAMP – …RELUCTANT HERO
13 TED GUNDERSON... MAN WITH A MISSION
14 THE FINDERS
15 FBI FRIEND OR FOE
16 N.A.M.B.L.A.
17 SATANISM IN AMERICA
18 MINDCONTROL, MONARCH AND MKULTRA

SECTION THREE

19 NATIONAL SECURITY ACT
20 CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
21 MEDIA CORRUPTION
22 LOCKED UP AT ABC
23 WHY JOHNNY CAN’T COME HOME
24 EPILOG… GRIEF BY LOSING A CHILD

[RunningDeer]

Do you have Cosmic Top Secrets by Hamilton III?


I did look, and was surprised to find that I didn't have it. I'd be interested to see it, too.


http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii610/WhiteCrowBlackDeer/william_zpstmoczche.jpg


While you search, here’s twelve pages of excerpts (http://lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/DulceAndOtherUndergroundBasesAndTunnels/DulceAndOtherUndergroundBasesAndTunnels.pdf) from ‘Cosmic Top Secret,” by William H. Hamilton.

[Atlas]

Cosmic Top Secret by William F. Hamilton 1991

https://pictures.abebooks.com/BOOKHAPPYBOOKS/md/md17010664489.jpg

Download PDF (https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44908464/avalon/docs/books/Cosmic%20top%20secret%20%20Americas%20secret%20UFO%20program.pdf) (150 pages)

[uzn]

Been searching for this book for a while now:
Book: Name-runes and occult coat-of-arms
Author: Tarnhari
Publishing date: 1915
33560
It´s mentioned in the Book "The occult Roots of Nazism" by Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke
https://archive.org/details/TheOccultRootsOfNazism_201602
but they left out the pictures in the online Version

[Bill Ryan]

Been searching for this book for a while now:
Book: Name-runes and occult coat-of-arms
Author: Tarnhari
Publishing date: 1915
33560
It´s mentioned in the Book "The occult Roots of Nazism" by Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke
https://archive.org/details/TheOccultRootsOfNazism_201602
but they left out the pictures in the online Version

Try this?

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_The_Occult_Roots_of_Nazism_Secret_Aryan_Cults_and_Their_Influence_on_Nazi_Ideology_2004.pdf

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_The_Occult_Roots_of_Nazism_Secret_Aryan_Cults_and_Their_Influence_on_Nazi_Ideology_2004.gif

(Actually, just checked... no illustrations there, either.)

Other books by Nicolas Goodrick-Clarke:

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_The_Western_Esoteric_Traditions_A_Historical_Introduction_2008.pdf

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_The_Western_Esoteric_Traditions_A_Historical_Introduction_2008.gif

~~~

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_Hitlers_Priestess_Savitri_Devi,_the_Hindu-Aryan_Myth,_and_Neo-Nazism_2000.pdf

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_Hitlers_Priestess_Savitri_Devi_the_Hindu-Aryan_Myth_and_Neo-Nazism_2000.gif

~~~

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_Black_Sun_Aryan_Cults,_Esoteric_Nazism_and_the_Politics_of_Identity_2001.pdf

http://projectavalon.net/Nicholas_Goodrick-Clarke_Black_Sun_Aryan_Cults,_Esoteric_Nazism_and_the_Politics_of_Identity_2001.gif

[ThePythonicCow]

What I am working on (too soon to know if I will succeed) will have multiple copies of the data, at multiple locations, which could easily include various world-wide locations, all served up via a public facing web server that can easily run on any small VPS server.
Well, I took a few months off from this Avalon Library project ... doing other stuff.

But in the last few weeks I have returned to this project, and I now have the website AvalonLibrary.net working. I have copied the files that Bill had uploaded to WeTransfer.com over to AvalonLibrary.net. The implementation uses riofs (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), a caching userspace filesystem that serves as a front end for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/), with backups integrated into my existing Avalon backup services.

I have changed the existing WeTransfer.com (we.tl) links in Bill's various posts to material that he has already uploaded on The Avalon Library (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859-The-Avalon-Library) thread to point to this new AvalonLibrary.net website instead.

I have also moved to the Avalon Library a few of the larger, more popular, files that I had shared in times past, and updated the posts on the forum linking to them.

What does this mean for users of this Library:

Now when you go to download something that is in the Avalon Library, the download will start directly from that posted AvalonLibrary.net link posted, instead of first requiring an additional couple of clicks on the WeTransfer site.
Unlike WeTransfer, you can view the entire list of what has been uploaded, at http://AvalonLibrary.net. There are two subdirectories there, so far: http://AvalonLibrary.net/Bill and http://AvalonLibrary.net/Paul.

What might happen sometime soon (perhaps within weeks):

The http://AvalonLibrary.net web page is really simple and ugly. Perhaps it is ugly enough that Bill will be motivated to code up a prettier version <grin>.
Once we am sure this is all working, then Bill and I can unplug our WeTransfer subscription, saving a few dollars a month. My riofs/S3 implementation can handle more files, and typically cost less.

What might happen longer term:

Bill says he has more good stuff to upload, which he might get around to doing, over time, now that we can handle a larger library economically.
We have other files that have already been uploaded in years past, with Bill uploading to the main Project Avalon web server, and mysellf uploading to my ThePythonicCow.us web server. It makes sense to move these files, especially the larger ones, to the AvalonLibrary.net server. I have already moved a few such files, as part of testing this system during development.
If it ever happened that Bill was working with someone else who also had contributions for the library, we have the possibility of my adding that other person to the list of authorized uploaders, so that they can upload directly to the Avalon Library, without having to send the files via Bill's internet connection in Ecuador.
Since we now control this file sharing service, not WeTransfer, we lower the risk of unexpected changes in the terms of service and we improve our ability to adjust the service to provide quality service to Avalon members and guests, for minimal cost.


Oh - if I broke something - let me know :).

[Fanna]

If ya'all need books, I have so many great pdfs that are too big for me to attach on the interesting books in pdf (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9462-Interesting-Free-Books-in-PDF) thread.

I love you guys.

[Fanna]

I think you just broke my brain. I found the "manhunt" file in Bill's library.

MOVING ON! I think I will read 200 Years Together tonight.

[Bill Ryan]

:bump:

The Avalon Library is now well-stocked and well re-engineered. Please see here (and also also my post below that):


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89859&p=1136524#post1136524

Because that's a 'closed' thread (for our announcements only), all discussion, comments, feedback and suggestions are most welcome here.

[Ewan]

Well done Paul :clapping:

And just in case it wasn't an entirely solo effort, well done all.

[Valerie Villars]

http://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170717

What a great storyteller. Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa" Mod's please move this to a thread you see fit.

[Bill Ryan]

http://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20170717

What a great storyteller. Isak Dinesen's "Out of Africa".

Thanks! Now archived here: :thumbsup:


http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Karen%20Blixen%20-%20Out%20of%20Africa.pdf

[Tintin]

Hi all

I'm not sure this has been posted anywhere yet, and, indeed, some of these texts I'm pretty certain are already 'housed' in Avalon's Library.

Here's what looks like a really useful resource:

Wendy Connors, Archive, Audio, UFO website
https://www.redhill.net.nz/ufo/audio/u/?dir=UFOs%20and%20Aliens

Plenty of UFO, and alien related material that looks as if it is all in one very useful place :happythumbsup:

[Tintin]

Originally posted here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?102788-The-Black-Vault-Resource-website), an extremely useful looking resource which was shared with me by a contact earlier.

http://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/#

This site looks as if it does provide a quite fascinating journey for those with a sense of adventure and possibly rock solid material to aid you in whichever area of research you may be interested in.

[Bill Ryan]

Just a note here. (And bumping the Library! :) )

I'm uploading more material all the time: another 44 PDFs just this morning, for example. I don't always make any kind of announcement when that happens.

The ebooks folder now has 1,469 items in it, not including a lot that's in specialized subfolders. Both members and non-members routinely send me things, and next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)

So, do please check in and browse around periodically. This is all for you. :star:


http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks

[Bob]

root: http://avalonlibrary.net/

a LOT more there :)

[Valerie Villars]

There is a wealth of knowledge in older, classic literature. It does open doors.

Kristen Lavransdatter is one of my favorites and the author won the Nobel Prize for Literature for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristin_Lavransdatter

[Bill Ryan]

Next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)



Done. 64 magazines, all here:


http://avalonlibrary.net/NEXUS_magazines_English




root: http://avalonlibrary.net (http://avalonlibrary.net/)

a LOT more there :)

Yes, Bob's 100% right: a LOT more there. As I posted yesterday, please do browse freely and explore. :thumbsup:

[Bill Ryan]

Next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)



Done. 64 magazines, all here:


http://avalonlibrary.net/NEXUS_magazines_English




root: http://avalonlibrary.net (http://avalonlibrary.net/)

a LOT more there :)

Yes, Bob's 100% right: a LOT more there. As I posted yesterday, please do browse freely and explore. :thumbsup:

:bump:

Bumping this. :) I've been adding more books all the time... literally too many to list here. Do please look around. It's one giant browser page, so a regular page search may find anything you're interested in, or all the books by a certain author.


http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/

[Praxis]

I just looked and noticed you do not have a copy of the Mass Psychology of Fascism by Reich. I have a PDF of it if you would like to have a copy of it for the library Bill.

[Bill Ryan]

I just looked and noticed you do not have a copy of the Mass Psychology of Fascism by Reich. I have a PDF of it if you would like to have a copy of it for the library Bill.

Many thanks... just send it to me by e-mail (bill@projectavalon.net), and I'll be delighted to add it.

[Valerie Villars]

I thought it would be nice to have the "Declaration of Independence" in the library. It's still a beautiful piece of writing.

http://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

[Bill Ryan]

I thought it would be nice to have the "Declaration of Independence" in the library. It's still a beautiful piece of writing.

http://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

Done. :thumbsup:


http://avalonlibrary.net/The_Declaration_of_Indeopendence.pdf

[Omni]

Next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)



Done. 64 magazines, all here:


http://avalonlibrary.net/NEXUS_magazines_English

I'm reading a nexus magazine PDF and think nexus mag is pretty awesome. It would appear that those 64 magazines are high quality reading.

[Valerie Villars]

I just thought about this. Do you have "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac? That book changed my life.

[Bill Ryan]

I just thought about this. Do you have "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac? That book changed my life.




:thumbsup:


Jack Kerouac - On The Road
http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Jack%20Kerouac%20-%20On%20The%20Road.pdf



Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Jack%20Kerouac%20-%20The%20Dharma%20Bums.pdf

[Valerie Villars]

Oh my gosh, thank you. I have the biggest smile on my face. :sun:

[Bill Ryan]

A kind member sent me a very appreciative e-mail about the Avalon Library (you know who you are! :sun: ), and so I thought I might share my reply.

~~~



Hi there, and many thanks for your kind words. Yes, Paul's put a lot of work into setting up the Library structure, and I've been uploading more and more books all the time. So many, in fact, that I only occasionally announce specific new books on the forum. There'd just be too many.

The total file size of the ebooks folder (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/) at the moment is 15.4 Gb. Depending on how they're counted, there are about 2,000 books in there now. Some of them I've hunted quite hard for specifically, and I've been delighted to track them down. (I'm gradually getting quite good at it!) I often convert the formats, and many of them I believe are unique on the net as PDFs. It's actually quite a lot of work sometimes, but I have to say I'm totally proud of it.

And yes, there are a few duplicates, but many of those are changes in the filenames which I've amended or corrected (or, in one or two instances, they're just different/alternative scans or OCRs): but in each case I left the original file in there, in case someone's linked the URL somewhere on some blog. I'd not want those to suddenly go to a '404 Not Found' for them.

Thanks again, and it's much appreciated. It's nice to know that more and more people are gradually realizing it's all there. I do believe it's now the best free e-book library on the net.

My very best wishes to you ~ Bill

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)



Done. 64 magazines, all here:


http://avalonlibrary.net/NEXUS_magazines_English

I'm reading a nexus magazine PDF and think nexus mag is pretty awesome. It would appear that those 64 magazines are high quality reading.

Definitely. I got a box of them in the attic, and many more old magazines and publications like them. I'll never get rid either, part of my awakening :)

[Retief]

A very good friend of mine is in the process of writing a novel subject matter along the lines of the bell ect. I told him the Avalon Library is the best resource on the web as far as I know along these lines. I thank Bill and everyone else involved for making it happen and keeping it going.

[arwen]

It's nice to know that more and more people are gradually realizing it's all there. I do believe it's now the best free e-book library on the net.

Fully agree! A Treasure Trove, a Gold Mine, absolutely the Best on the Net.

What would add even more value (although not absolutely necessary, it is excellent as it is), would be some sort of feature to search by author, title and subject category. Not necessary to index/classify at the level of the Dewey Decimal or other systems, but as the collection grows, it may become necessary to have some sort of searchable and retrieval categorization beyond alphabetical listing.

That would need 1) Tech plug-in (if not possible it stops right there) 2) Volunteers to Index and Catalogue the items, at a basic level, and which would be a fun project (presuming the world does not end in the meantime ;) )

Much Love to you, Bill, and thank you for your excellent work.

[arwen]

Next to be uploaded, probably tomorrow, will be a large collection of Nexus Magazine pdfs. (That's the kind of thing that would be in its own subfolder. VERY good stuff there, btw.)



Done. 64 magazines, all here:


http://avalonlibrary.net/NEXUS_magazines_English

I'm reading a nexus magazine PDF and think nexus mag is pretty awesome. It would appear that those 64 magazines are high quality reading.

Yes, they are excellent! Another similar magazine I found to be in the same league was New Dawn (https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/)magazine - I subscribed to them years ago and unfortunately was not able to keep my back copies. They do have a few of their articles (https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/category/articles)openly accessible if no back copies are available for the library.

[norman]

Another magazine I discovered in the 80s but never actually owned my own, was OMNI.


I first learned about the animal mutilations by reading a copy of that.

[Retief]

I used to like Omni back in the day. Supposedly you can get back copies at https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine. But, like Scientific American I eventually realized it was just another outlet for the orthodox view of our state of affairs.

[Omni]

A kind member sent me a very appreciative e-mail about the Avalon Library (you know who you are! :sun: ), and so I thought I might share my reply.

~~~



Hi there, and many thanks for your kind words. Yes, Paul's put a lot of work into setting up the Library structure, and I've been uploading more and more books all the time. So many, in fact, that I only occasionally announce specific new books on the forum. There'd just be too many.

The total file size of the ebooks folder (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/) at the moment is 15.4 Gb. Depending on how they're counted, there are about 2,000 books in there now. Some of them I've hunted quite hard for specifically, and I've been delighted to track them down. (I'm gradually getting quite good at it!) I often convert the formats, and many of them I believe are unique on the net as PDFs. It's actually quite a lot of work sometimes, but I have to say I'm totally proud of it.

And yes, there are a few duplicates, but many of those are changes in the filenames which I've amended or corrected (or, in one or two instances, they're just different/alternative scans or OCRs): but in each case I left the original file in there, in case someone's linked the URL somewhere on some blog. I'd not want those to suddenly go to a '404 Not Found' for them.

Thanks again, and it's much appreciated. It's nice to know that more and more people are gradually realizing it's all there. I do believe it's now the best free e-book library on the net.

My very best wishes to you ~ Bill

Did you know Bill that registrars have an option for redirecting links? You could take the old url and put it through the AvalonLibrary.net registrar and redirect any older urls to the newer links and eliminate duplicates for maximum aesthetics. I have had to re-upload PDFs to my multimedia company subdomain and that is the optimal way I have found. I particularly like it because it doesn't split the SEO into two links.

[ThePythonicCow]

Did you know Bill that registrars have an option for redirecting links?
There's a good chance I misunderstand your suggestion Omni, but it seems to me that you are discussing link redirects from one website to another. I am pretty sure that Bill was discussing having the same document loaded on AvalonLibrary.net by two different file names.

[Omni]

Did you know Bill that registrars have an option for redirecting links?
There's a good chance I misunderstand your suggestion Omni, but it seems to me that you are discussing link redirects from one website to another. I am pretty sure that Bill was discussing having the same document loaded on AvalonLibrary.net by two different file names.
Yes, Bill was talking about duplicates under two file names. My suggestion is take the older one and grab the link from it; make a redirect to the new one - and then delete the duplicates as they may confuse people and are bad for SEO, it splits the SEO of the PDF links into two. From what I have heard by carrying out a permanent redirect it puts a lot of the SEO of the redirect link into the destination.

On one of my registrars you can forward/redirect any link from a hosted domain to any link destination on the web. This can be useful for many things, e.g. what Bill described. I have done this for my PDF domain.

[ThePythonicCow]

On one of my registrars you can forward/redirect any link from a hosted domain to any link destination on the web. This can be useful for many things, e.g. what Bill described. I have done this for my PDF domain.

This does not even make sense to me :). I must not be understanding something here.

I do not see any way that a DNS registrar could redirect, for example, http://avalonlibrary.net/oldfilename.pdf to http://avalonlibrary.net/newfilename.pdf, with the same domain name avalonlibrary.net in both links.

All that the DNS registrar does, regarding a IPv4 DNS domain name mapping such as for avalonlibrary.net, is to answer the question "What IP address is avalonlibrary.net located at?". It does this by directing DNS lookup requests for that avalonlibrary.net to some DNS server that knows that avalonlibrary.net is located at 198.143.158.132.

None of this DNS apparatus tracks in any way the file name space within a web server. It just gets users to the right IP address for a domain name.

If you had a file in http://serverA.net/some_file_name.html that you wanted to let users access using a URL with some other domain name, say http://serverB.net/some_file_name.html, then I suppose that a registrar could setup its DNS apparatus to send all requests for any file on "serverB.net" A records to "serverA.net", but that is not Bill's situation with avalonlibrary.net.

[Omni]

This does not even make sense to me :). I must not be understanding something here.

Seen here:

http://zip.universalaspects.io/images/redirect.png

You can take an avalon library url (at the avalon library registrar if it has this option) and redirect it into any link you desire. Namecheap.com has this (perhaps your registrar does).

[ThePythonicCow]

You can take an avalon library url (at the avalon library registrar if it has this option) and redirect it into any link you desire. Namecheap.com has this (perhaps your registrar does).
These 301 permanent redirects apply to the domain name, not to just a specific filename within a domain.

If I use 301 redirects to redirect one file on a website, to some other website, I redirect all files.

If I use 301 redirects to redirect files, the same file name, by the same path name, is requested from the new server that the 301 redirected traffic to.

Bill wants to have two file names for the same content on the same server, not one file name, that can be asked for on one server, which gets redirected to a second server.

[norman]

What's the possibility of having a new section of the forum that is a page full of live audio streams available simply by clicking on them.


Is there a widget that can do that or a tweak to do it?

[norman]

What's the possibility of having a new section of the forum that is a page full of live audio streams available simply by clicking on them.


Is there a widget that can do that or a tweak to do it?




errr. . . just in case the idea needs a few audio stream URLs to experiment with, here's a bunch of them that I use:






Advent Radio [ old Art Bell Shows ]

http://37.187.79.56:10534




The Ultimate Art Bell [ old Art Bell shows ]

http://198.27.120.235:8450




Alex Jones Show

http://stream-mp3.infowars.com/




KGRA-digital Broaadcasting

http://s6.voscast.com:7948




Rense Radio Network

http://s2.voscast.com:9958




Richie Allen

http://108.163.223.242:8102/stream?type=.mp3




Republic Broadcasting 1

http://216.240.133.177:2005




Revolution Radio Studio A

http://198.178.123.2:8054




Revolution Radio Studio B

http://s2.voscast.com:8186




War Room with Owen Shroyer

http://192.240.107.134:80/warroom




Roswell UFO Channel

http://listen.radionomy.com/TheUFOChannel




----------------------------
MUSIC


Laurel Canyon Radio

http://s10.voscast.com:7858




Chromanova.fm - Chillout Psybient

http://176.31.123.212:8192

[Caliban]

Speaking of being kind, I find it amazing how all these copyrighted works are blithely posted here as if their authors didn't sweat blood and put years and years into those 50 or 100 thousand words that in one click go up for free. Voila.

Are any of the authors - or their heirs or rep's - contacted to see if it's okay with them? I highly doubt that. At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book. Professional or semi-professional writers look at this and gnash their teeth. If this continues, watch books go the way of the music industry. During his lifetime, Dick struggled to stay afloat. A writer's life ain't easy. Buy the books if you like them.

[Bill Ryan]

Speaking of being kind, I find it amazing how all these copyrighted works are blithely posted here as if their authors didn't sweat blood and put years and years into those 50 or 100 thousand words that in one click go up for free. Voila.

Are any of the authors - or their heirs or rep's - contacted to see if it's okay with them? I highly doubt that. At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book. Professional or semi-professional writers look at this and gnash their teeth. If this continues, watch books go the way of the music industry. During his lifetime, Dick struggled to stay afloat. A writer's life ain't easy. Buy the books if you like them.

Thanks! For information, the statement about Philip K. Dick's works on Wikimedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adjustment_Team.djvu) (where his books are free to download) reads:





This work is in the public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain) because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rule_of_the_shorter_term) for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart) for further explanation.

[Caliban]

Speaking of being kind, I find it amazing how all these copyrighted works are blithely posted here as if their authors didn't sweat blood and put years and years into those 50 or 100 thousand words that in one click go up for free. Voila.

Are any of the authors - or their heirs or rep's - contacted to see if it's okay with them? I highly doubt that. At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book. Professional or semi-professional writers look at this and gnash their teeth. If this continues, watch books go the way of the music industry. During his lifetime, Dick struggled to stay afloat. A writer's life ain't easy. Buy the books if you like them.

Thanks! For information, the statement about Philip K. Dick's works on Wikimedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adjustment_Team.djvu) (where his books are free to download) reads:





This work is in the public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain) because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rule_of_the_shorter_term) for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart) for further explanation.


That's great Bill -- what about the hundreds of other authors' work you've put up? Are they too out of copyright?

[Bill Ryan]

Speaking of being kind, I find it amazing how all these copyrighted works are blithely posted here as if their authors didn't sweat blood and put years and years into those 50 or 100 thousand words that in one click go up for free. Voila.

Are any of the authors - or their heirs or rep's - contacted to see if it's okay with them? I highly doubt that. At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book. Professional or semi-professional writers look at this and gnash their teeth. If this continues, watch books go the way of the music industry. During his lifetime, Dick struggled to stay afloat. A writer's life ain't easy. Buy the books if you like them.

Thanks! For information, the statement about Philip K. Dick's works on Wikimedia (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adjustment_Team.djvu) (where his books are free to download) reads:



This work is in the public domain (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain) because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rule_of_the_shorter_term) for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Hirtle_chart) for further explanation.


That's great Bill -- what about the hundreds of other authors' work you've put up? Are they too out of copyright?

Many are, but not all of them. If we receive a copyright message, we instantly remove the book in question.

It should be noted that in almost every case (all but 3 or 4 in about 2,000) the books have been found elsewhere on the net, where they were uploaded long ago. All we've done is gathered them together in one place.

The service we provide here — with no money being made at all — is the hunting and finding, which can actually sometimes be quite a job.

[Ba-ba-Ra]

That's great Bill -- what about the hundreds of other authors' work you've put up? Are they too out of copyright?


Caliban, Since I'm an author I can give you an opinion from that perspective. I realize this is just my perspective and other authors might differ.

I have books on Amazon. For hard copies I receive about a $1.00 royalty per sale - unless they are sold used, which many are and then I receive nothing. For Kindle additions I receive about $2.00.

If hard copies are bought direct from publisher (via bookstores), I receive about $3.00 That rarely happens to most authors anymore.

The only way an author makes any real money is:
a) if they sell 50,000 or more copies via bookstores every year (and my personal experience has been the publishers have not been completely honest in sending royalties and as far as I know there is no way to check)
b) the author purchases the books themselves from their publisher who usually sells to the author at half price and then goes out on the road to sell them direct. Usually at book signings at stores, fairs, etc.

Think of all the books that are sold used both in used book stores and on Amazon and other websites. Nothing is paid to author in those cases.

I say give Bill a break, he is educating many by offering this online (no different than selling used), and I'm guessing that most of the authors would be thrilled to know their information is getting out there.

[RunningDeer]

At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/write.gif You bring up good points, Caliban. 98% of the time I'll: 1) add a link 2) a book cover graphic 3) an Amazon summary. I say 98% because I'm having second thoughts about promoting a company that drives local mom and pop stores out of business and has harsh work conditions for their employees.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/reading.gif More often than not, it’s because of the free pdfs, I’ll purchase the physical copy. I prefer them to pdfs. I’ve been known to purchase an electronic edition while waiting for a physical copy. Freebies are a good way for me to learn of new authors and purchase their other books.

[Bill Ryan]

Freebies are a good way for me to learn of new authors and purchase their other books.

Yes... and also to search through a PDF (which is very easy to do, taking only moments) to research a name, a place, or a reference. Just that. Not to read it from cover to cover. :)

Very few people are going to spend hundreds (maybe thousands!) of $$ buying hard copy books just in case there's a paragraph in there somewhere that's useful for a research project. Quite a few of the PDFs of books on the internet are poorly formatted; they're NOT high-quality reproductions of the original, at all. But the text is usually complete and fully searchable, and that can be very valuable.

[Valerie Villars]

At the very least link to a way to PURCHASE the book.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/write.gif You bring up good points, Caliban. 98% of the time I'll: 1) add a link 2) a book cover graphic 3) an Amazon summary. I say 98% because I'm having second thoughts about promoting a company that drives local mom and pop stores out of business and has harsh work conditions for their employees.

http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/reading.gif More often than not, it’s because of the free pdfs, I’ll purchase the physical copy. I prefer them to pdfs. I’ve been known to purchase an electronic edition while waiting for a physical copy. Freebies are a good way for me to learn of new authors and purchase their other books.

I was going to say the same thing on the other thread and then decided to stay out of it, but often I buy a book because I read it online (or a part of it) and liked it so much I bought it.

And I have been having some Amazon guilt about this recently.

[RunningDeer]

I was going to say the same thing on the other thread and then decided to stay out of it, but often I buy a book because I read it online (or a part of it) and liked it so much I bought it.

And I have been having some Amazon guilt about this recently.

Sometimes, I'll add an extra Avalon donation as a "Thanks for the freebies, Bill". http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/yes.gif

I rationalize Amazon purchases because the closest book store is 30+ miles away. I use to spend hours in there, 5-7 days a week. My 2003 car says, “Dear RunningDeer, stop all ya runnin’. Time to save on gas, miles and wear 'n' tear. Put that money into ya books."


putt-putt.........................http://avalonlibrary.net/paula/smilies/car.gif

[Valerie Villars]

Same here.

When I went to LA in 94, there were no cell phones and anytime someone would call for me at my aunt's apartment, she would say, "She's at the bookstore again." :flower:

[Caliban]

Sorry Ba-Ba-Ra, Bill doesn't get a break here. I'm looking out for the poets, the artists and the authors to get a break. You can "break" it down any way you want in terms of sales and profits-- it's still Stealing. Yes, I said it. How does this differ from going into B&N and filching a book? You should be defending the writers, my dear, not those who take from them with no return. (I know you give a lot back, Bill, this isn't directly to you)

I wish all were like Running Deer who does give back to those who give us so much. It takes a long time to write a book and far longer for it to rise to the surface to be put down in paragraphs. Every pdf posted should include a link to the publisher or another site to BUY the book, if it's a living author or a still-copyrighted work.

On edit, the fact that these books have been mostly "gathered" from other sites doesn't mitigate the reality of what is actually occurring. Avalon's not like other sites, is it? I'm saying that far more thought should go into this ---

[Bill Ryan]

This is an interesting discussion.

@Caliban, does the Interesting Free Books in PDF (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9462-Interesting-Free-Books-in-PDF/page35) thread sit easy with you? Where members post links to books that are online elsewhere?

Should Avalon close and delete that thread? (That's a serious question for you. Not a rhetorical one.)

When members copy and paste articles here, as we all often do, should we each always first check carefully with the author for copyright release? (And do you do that, yourself?)

Periodically we DO occasionally get asked to delete copied articles from threads, which always totally bewilders me. I've never copyrighted anything I've written, or filmed, in my life. I doubt I ever will.

Back in Project Camelot days, Kerry Cassidy and I made a point to state clearly that NOTHING we did ever was copyrighted. We never wanted it to be. (Why would we?)

And we never charged a penny for anything, either. The information we shared was not ours to sell. We relied 100% on donations.

And (while we're on that subject! :) ): if you're (admirably) concerned about people working hard to educate and provide information for others, with nothing close to adequate remuneration:

In the two years you've been here with us, I presume benefiting to at least quite some considerable extent, have you ever made a donation to Avalon?

I don't think so, but [genuinely] please forgive me if I'm wrong. If you have indeed never made a donation, is your outlook that you only gladly offer money when there's definitively something for sale? (That's rather crudely put, and not intended to be a push-back: I'm just pointing out that these issues are NOT black and white, by any means at all.)

I could say, you don't get a break, either. :)

:bearhug: :beer: :bearhug:

[Bill Ryan]

For interesting reference, do see Caliban's post on the Interesting Free books in PDF thread, from 2015:


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9462-Interesting-Free-Books-in-PDF&p=967982&viewfull=1#post967982

... and also, the 5 replies that followed.

One of them was mine, in which I wrote (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?9462-Interesting-Free-Books-in-PDF&p=968813&viewfull=1#post968813): (it's interesting to look back on this, 3 years later. I was glad to see I said almost exactly the same thing! :) )

~~~



Many thanks for this, and it's a tricky subject. In 95% (or more) of the instances of books referenced on this thread, the books are out there already in PDF form — somewhere on the net. What the contributors to this thread are almost always doing is linking to existing locations.

I have quite often re-uploaded existing PDFs of books to the Avalon server, but that's just after (e.g.) adding the cover to the text PDF. That's merely for presentational purposes.

In one instance, with Fritz Springmeier and Cisco Wheeler's seminal book The Illuminati Formula Used to Create an Undetectable Total Mind Controlled Slave, I spent an entire day, maybe two, cleaning up the existing 800 page 'internet' copy, reformatting and editing typos after the fairly poor quality OCR (Optical Character Recognition). I posted that on the Avalon server, too.

Sometimes we receive e-mails from the authors or their representatives, asking us to kindly remove a link to a book. When that happens, we comply immediately — and I always send a gracious reply.

[Caliban]

No, and I shouldn't get a break, I don't deserve one. ;)

No, I don't think you should delete the library. I'm just speaking out for some of them who might want to speak out. Acknowledgment. I don't know what the answer is. Buy one of their books if you've got some bread. Or do something either for them or someone, some energy should be exchanged, preferably for the creator. How about sending the writer, if they're around, a little note thanking him/her. In other words, don't just take.

I have mixed feelings about copyright too. You're probably more enlightened on that than me. I still think it's cool to shell out some bucks for something you love and cherish. Speaking of which, you are right. I haven't donated. I think it's time I did. Good point, and touche.

Edit - I know you're all about the information moving.

[Bill Ryan]

@Caliban — thank you: I do appreciate the debate. It's genuinely interesting. I also totally appreciate your courtesy, which is present in everything you do.

:flower:




When members copy and paste articles here, as we all often do, should we each always first check carefully with the author for copyright release? (And do you do that, yourself?)

Periodically we DO occasionally get asked to delete copied articles from threads, which always totally bewilders me.

Here's a perfect case in point. There was one thread, from several years back, that just consisted of half a dozen posts by one member, all of which were copied-and-pasted website articles that promoted that website author's book. The text presented was an extract from the book, which was linked and referenced in the articles, and it was faithfully and accurately copied in the posts.

The theme was spiritual development, using a particular meditation technique. I didn't even know about the thread... there are thousands here, spread across the years, that the mods just are unaware of. It's impossible to read everything!

It was brought to my attention by the author of the book, who wrote to ask for it to be deleted as it was copyrighted. I looked on their current site, and the articles weren't even there any more. Only the book, for sale.

I was just baffled. We were giving them a free advertising platform. The articles were well-written, illustrated, and interesting, and the book looked interesting, too.

What we were seeing was a kind of instinctive, irrational territoriality. The fact that we were helping them never seemed to cross the author's mind. He just never wanted a thing of his to be copied... whatever it was. It was his fixed worldview.

But, of course, he was entitled to that. We did as we were asked, and deleted the entire thread. Now no Avalon members will ever know what his book was. And I can't remember, either. :)

~~~

Here's another example. though no book was involved here. Many reading this will be familiar with our very own Skywizard (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/member.php?13275-Skywizard), whose hobby and great life's interest is archeology. He posts really interesting threads on archeological matters and new discoveries, and I know for a fact they're greatly appreciated by the community here. He simply copies existing articles and news items which he's found various specialist websites, and he always carefully links back to the original.

We received a VERY angry letter from the owner of one of the sites, demanding that a certain thread that'd come to her attention be deleted, as it was copyrighted. I wrote back, very politely, explaining that all we were doing was giving their site publicity, and that the articles were all faithfully reproduced, with full accreditation.

It made no difference. The person was truly hostile. I wrote to Skywizard to explain and apologize, and we had to delete his [very interesting] thread. So he no longer copies articles from that site any more.

Everyone loses: the members here don't even know that site exists now, and at their end, they don't get the traffic. (Or the advertising revenue!)

~~~

This is all worthy of a Human Condition (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?178-The-Human-Condition) thread in itself. It does seem to me that at a fundamental level it's actually about fear, or fear of loss, at least to some extent.

What emotional reassurance or relief did those two people above ^^ experience from their actions? Did our removal of their articles in some way help them sleep better at night, or feel less anxious? Did they feel they were victorious in some kind of territorial contest or challenge? Was Avalon threatening in some way? Was it all about control? Or ego?

A little over a year ago, one of my threads went viral, to some degree. It was the first post on my The Truth about Corey Goode (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?97313-The-Truth-about-Corey-Goode) thread, which was an important one. It was picked up and multiply re-posted — often without attribution! — all over the place. Some sites attributed it to another site which had copied it... etc etc. But I truly didn't mind: I wasn't insecure about anything. I was just delighted that the info was out there and being widely read.

If I wanted to be famous (or rich!) I'd be working hard to have my own radio show, my own weekly livestream in which I'd croon over all the wonderful questions I was asked (OMG! :facepalm: ), my own Twitter feed, my own Facebook page, my own Instagram account, and a bunch of other social media platforms, some of which I may not even know about.

I'd have part of Avalon behind a paywall, a bunch of interviews the second hour of which only subscribers could access, and I'd also monetize my YouTube videos (NONE of which I've ever monetized in any way, which nowadays may be almost unique).

And even the library would be behind a paywall, though I really DO think that'd be unethical. (However, I do put a LOT of hours into it. The value I add is finding the books elsewhere on the net. I'm really quite good at that now.)

I just refuse to play that dog-eat-dog, gravy-train, feed-the-ego, competitive game. My approach is that I don't need to advertise or promote myself (or the forum). The right people will always find who and what they need to find, at the perfect time for them. The universe works that way.

It's a remarkable, magical process, and it's all about quality, not quantity.

:sun:

:focus:

[Foxie Loxie]

"Quality, not quantity"! Kindred souls here on Avalon!! :heart:

[Bill Ryan]

A routine update here, in case folks may not be fully aware.

The Avalon Library (http://avalonlibrary.net) continues to grow steadily. Only a very small proportion of new uploads are posted as updates on the forum.


In the ebooks section (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/), there are now over 2,300 books, including some which are very hard to find.
In the main section (http://avalonlibrary.net), there are over 100 documentaries and other videos, including YouTube items which have been censored or removed.
And there's a Coast to Coast AM section (sftp://bill_avlib:@avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/) with over 300 Coast to Coast radio shows.

That, and much, much more. There are some very rare and interesting items in there. We're really proud of it... do check it out regularly. It's all for you.

:flower:

[iamofopenmind]

A routine update here, in case folks may not be fully aware.

The Avalon Library (http://avalonlibrary.net) continues to grow steadily. Only a very small proportion of new uploads are posted as updates on the forum.


In the ebooks section (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/), there are now over 2,300 books, including some which are very hard to find.
In the main section (http://avalonlibrary.net), there are over 100 documentaries and other videos, including YouTube items which have been censored or removed.
And there's a Coast to Coast AM section (sftp://bill_avlib:@avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/) with over 300 Coast to Coast radio shows.

That, and much, much more. There are some very rare and interesting items in there. We're really proud of it... do check it out regularly. It's all for you.

:flower:

Gutted that the ebook section of The Avalon Library has gone. Missing it already. Do you plan on bringing it back Bill?

[Bill Ryan]

A routine update here, in case folks may not be fully aware.

The Avalon Library (http://avalonlibrary.net) continues to grow steadily. Only a very small proportion of new uploads are posted as updates on the forum.


In the ebooks section (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/), there are now over 2,300 books, including some which are very hard to find.
In the main section (http://avalonlibrary.net), there are over 100 documentaries and other videos, including YouTube items which have been censored or removed.
And there's a Coast to Coast AM section (sftp://bill_avlib:@avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/) with over 300 Coast to Coast radio shows.

That, and much, much more. There are some very rare and interesting items in there. We're really proud of it... do check it out regularly. It's all for you.

:flower:

Gutted that the ebook section of The Avalon Library has gone. Missing it already. Do you plan on bringing it back Bill?

I'm afraid we can't, in its present form.

The main issue is that only a small proportion of all the books there were copyrighted. Many were old and hard to find, extremely valuable reference material that I only personally ever used to search for keywords and find short sections to quote or highlight in posts. But taken all together, it was a fantastic, huge encyclopedia, the best doors-wide-open literary library on the net.

What's needed is to sift through them all — 2,300 of them — and weed out the ones that are (or may be) copyrighted. But that's really an enormous task.

A book published in 1925 may have a copyright notice in the preface, but has that expired? (Probably, but who knows for sure?) And in the case of authors who have passed (like Jim Marrs, Ingo Swann, Colin Wilson, and many others), who owns the copyrights now — if they do? And how to find out? I can't e-mail Jim now to ask him. :)

So the entire issue is fraught. In the bigger picture, the real issue is the internet, and that so much is now widely available (or at least searchable) in a vast, global information cloud. Every book that was ever listed there is also elsewhere on the net.

They may be hard to find, so all we sought to do was to assemble all this in one place to save people searching for hours. In a way, it was just a list of search results, all predigested. We just did the grunt work for others, and like presenting a platform for the forum itself, this was our pleasure.

Regarding the threat of action taken against us, we were just an easy target. And the reason why we were an easy target, of course, is that it had become too big. We never tried to stay hidden. All we ever wanted to do was be of service to the community.

It was like hippies in the 70s sharing their LPs with one another. But the internet makes it extremely easy to copy and share, and the entire 15th century concept of copyright, with all its facets and nuances and restrictions, is now quite a debating point — probably among everyone but authors.

A personal note.

When I was publishing a great deal of original material, in Project Camelot days, nothing was copyrighted. Not a word, and not a single video. Nor did we ever sell anything. We wanted people to go copy it and spread it all around.

I've never monetized a YouTube video, either. Not one. I just refuse.

The standard paradigm is:



"I've got this thing that I think you may want, but I'm not going to let you have it unless you give me money first."
My paradigm is:



"I've got this thing that I think you may want, so please help yourself — and if you want to donate something, I'll be grateful. But I'm not counting on it. It's all up to you."
But I know I see the world differently from almost everyone else. So many people on the net are about money. But I just can't think that way. If I did, Avalon would be covered with advertising, and half of it would be behind a paywall. So my ethics are solid. They're just not quite the same as most other people's.

[iamofopenmind]

A routine update here, in case folks may not be fully aware.

The Avalon Library (http://avalonlibrary.net) continues to grow steadily. Only a very small proportion of new uploads are posted as updates on the forum.


In the ebooks section (http://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/), there are now over 2,300 books, including some which are very hard to find.
In the main section (http://avalonlibrary.net), there are over 100 documentaries and other videos, including YouTube items which have been censored or removed.
And there's a Coast to Coast AM section (sftp://bill_avlib:@avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/) with over 300 Coast to Coast radio shows.

That, and much, much more. There are some very rare and interesting items in there. We're really proud of it... do check it out regularly. It's all for you.

:flower:

Gutted that the ebook section of The Avalon Library has gone. Missing it already. Do you plan on bringing it back Bill?

I'm afraid we can't, in its present form.

The main issue is that only a small proportion of all the books there were copyrighted. Many were old and hard to find, extremely valuable reference material that I only personally ever used to search for keywords and find short sections to quote or highlight in posts. But taken all together, it was a fantastic, huge encyclopedia, the best doors-wide-open literary library on the net.

What's needed is to sift through them all — 2,300 of them — and weed out the ones that are (or may be) copyrighted. But that's really an enormous task.

A book published in 1925 may have a copyright notice in the preface, but has that expired? (Probably, but who knows for sure?) And in the case of authors who have passed (like Jim Marrs, Ingo Swann, Colin Wilson, and many others), who owns the copyrights now — if they do? And how to find out? I can't e-mail Jim now to ask him. :)

So the entire issue is fraught. In the bigger picture, the real issue is the internet, and that so much is now widely available (or at least searchable) in a vast, global information cloud. Every book that was ever listed there is also elsewhere on the net.

They may be hard to find, so all we sought to do was to assemble all this in one place to save people searching for hours. In a way, it was just a list of search results, all predigested. We just did the grunt work for others, and like presenting a platform for the forum itself, this was our pleasure.

Regarding the threat of action taken against us, we were just an easy target. And the reason why we were an easy target, of course, is that it had become too big. We never tried to stay hidden. All we ever wanted to do was be of service to the community.

It was like hippies in the 70s sharing their LPs with one another. But the internet makes it extremely easy to copy and share, and the entire 15th century concept of copyright, with all its facets and nuances and restrictions, is now quite a debating point — probably among everyone but authors.

A personal note.

When I was publishing a great deal of original material, in Project Camelot days, nothing was copyrighted. Not a word, and not a single video. Nor did we ever sell anything. We wanted people to go copy it and spread it all around.

I've never monetized a YouTube video, either. Not one. I just refuse.

The standard paradigm is:



"I've got this thing that I think you may want, but I'm not going to let you have it unless you give me money first."
My paradigm is:



"I've got this thing that I think you may want, so please help yourself — and if you want to donate something, I'll be grateful. But I'm not counting on it. It's all up to you."
But I know I see the world differently from almost everyone else. So many people on the net are about money. But I just can't think that way. If I did, Avalon would be covered with advertising, and half of it would be behind a paywall. So my ethics are solid. They're just not quite the same as most other people's.

Well thank you anyway for providing this much needed service, it was a fabulous resource and has given myself and many others countless hours of enjoyment. Back to torrents I guess :bigsmile:

[Valerie Villars]

It's a real shame. I used to use it very often because a subject I knew nothing about was recommended and the reading material provided. Very seldom will I buy a book just based on a preface or a short synopsis. I almost always buy books I have read because I know it's something I want in my library. Often I would buy a book by an author because I was able to first read other works by that author and found their work valuable.

However, I completely understand why it had to be pulled. It's just no one really benefits from it not being there.

[RogueEllis]

Is there anything I can do to help with this? I volunteer to volunteer!

[Pexdog99]

Hi Bill

don't suppose you still have the web links for any of these books? So many of this 'free' links to books now need to register and pay.

Even many Gutenburg scanned books end up on amazon kindle selection!

Otherwise find a country that has no copyright laws, see below, not much choice - San Marino??

The following countries have no known copyright relations with the United States.
Afghanistan
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Iran
Iraq
San Marino
Turkmenistan

[Bill Ryan]

Hi Bill

don't suppose you still have the web links for any of these books? So many of this 'free' links to books now need to register and pay.

There's an Avalon team working right now to establish what can safely be in the library, and what can't. That might take a couple of weeks or more, but after that it'll all be relaunched. We have many books which are pretty much open source, and the job — not a small one! — is to identify what should be excluded.

See this Members-only thread:


Volunteers needed for a Library Project (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?108239-Volunteers-needed-for-a-Library-Project)

[p+52]

Don't know who the member is that is contributing the Coast to Coast AM archives, but wonder if there will be another set of recent shows added soon?

[Bill Ryan]

Don't know who the member is that is contributing the Coast to Coast AM archives, but wonder if there will be another set of recent shows added soon?The [very kind!] Avalon member has asked to be anonymous, but the way we work it is that if any shows come to our attention that we really think the community would appreciate being archived and posted, then we make a special request. (And of course, that can be retrospective, as a C2C member can go back quite a number of years to download past shows.)

[p+52]

Don't know who the member is that is contributing the Coast to Coast AM archives, but wonder if there will be another set of recent shows added soon?The [very kind!] Avalon member has asked to be anonymous, but the way we work it is that if any shows come to our attention that we really think the community would appreciate being archived and posted, then we make a special request. (And of course, that can be retrospective, as a C2C member can go back quite a number of years to download past shows.)

Thank you Bill. The requested anonymity of the member is certainly understandable, and I thank him (her) for their contributions.

I'd like to propose requesting 1 recent show: the one from Dec 22 which included an interview of someone I will be meeting in a couple weeks, astronomer and former JPL employee Marian Rudnyk about his UFO encounter (very near to where I live) in Southern California.

[Bill Ryan]

I'd like to propose requesting 1 recent show: the one from Dec 22 which included an interview of someone I will be meeting in a couple weeks, astronomer and former JPL employee Marian Rudnyk about his UFO encounter (very near to where I live) in Southern California.

Here you go: :thumbsup:

Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp - Marian Rudnyk - Dec 22 2019 - Hour 1.mp3
http://avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/Coast%20to%20Coast%20AM%20with%20George%20Knapp%20-%20Marian%20Rudnyk%20-%20Dec%2022%202019%20-%20Hour%201.mp3
Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp - Marian Rudnyk - Dec 22 2019 - Hour 2.mp3
http://avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/Coast%20to%20Coast%20AM%20with%20George%20Knapp%20-%20Marian%20Rudnyk%20-%20Dec%2022%202019%20-%20Hour%202.mp3
Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp - Terry Lovelace - Dec 22 2019 - Hour 3.mp3
http://avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/Coast%20to%20Coast%20AM%20with%20George%20Knapp%20-%20Terry%20Lovelace%20-%20Dec%2022%202019%20-%20Hour%203.mp3
Coast to Coast AM with George Knapp - Terry Lovelace - Dec 22 2019 - Hour 4.mp3
http://avalonlibrary.net/Coast_to_Coast_AM_audio/Coast%20to%20Coast%20AM%20with%20George%20Knapp%20-%20Terry%20Lovelace%20-%20Dec%2022%202019%20-%20Hour%204.mp3

[Parsi-X]

hello team PA.. I am looking for any books on Indrid Cold - Moth man prophecies// visitors from lanulos

[Tintin]

hello team PA.. I am looking for any books on Indrid Cold - Moth man prophecies// visitors from lanulos

Thanks very much for this request Parsi-X. Bear with me here; I'll probably need to have a dig around tomorrow (UK) now but it's flagged on my 'to do'. I'm pretty certain 'Mothman' material is in the library. Hang on in there :highfive:

[Parsi-X]

i have a few e-books from william mills tompkins, micheal e salla that I would be happy to share if anyone wants them or for the library, please let me know :)

[Bill Ryan]

hello team PA.. I am looking for any books on Indrid Cold - Moth man prophecies// visitors from lanulos

Thanks very much for this request Parsi-X. Bear with me here; I'll probably need to have a dig around tomorrow (UK) now but it's flagged on my 'to do'. I'm pretty certain 'Mothman' material is in the library. Hang on in there :highfive:Here's a bunch of books which all feature the word 'Indrid' (an unusual word!):


John Keel - The Mothman Prophecies.pdf
John Keel - The Cosmic Question.pdf
John Keel - The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings.pdf
John Keel - The Eighth Tower.pdf
David Icke - Tales From The Time Loop.pdf
Michael Talbot - The Holographic Universe.pdf
Allen Greenfield - Secret Rituals of the Men in Black.pdf

Here's the download link, valid for 7 days till 2 April 2020:


https://we.tl/t-wGqZEfymOh (80 Gb)

[Frank V]

hello team PA.. I am looking for any books on Indrid Cold - Moth man prophecies// visitors from lanulos

Thanks very much for this request Parsi-X. Bear with me here; I'll probably need to have a dig around tomorrow (UK) now but it's flagged on my 'to do'. I'm pretty certain 'Mothman' material is in the library. Hang on in there :highfive:Here's a bunch of books which all feature the word 'Indrid' (an unusual word!):


John Keel - The Mothman Prophecies.pdf
John Keel - The Cosmic Question.pdf
John Keel - The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings.pdf
John Keel - The Eighth Tower.pdf
David Icke - Tales From The Time Loop.pdf
Michael Talbot - The Holographic Universe.pdf
Allen Greenfield - Secret Rituals of the Men in Black.pdf

Here's the download link, valid for 7 days till 2 April 2020:


https://we.tl/t-wGqZEfymOh (80 Gb)


Indrid Cold is apparently the proper name of a human-like extraterrestrial, who was part of the investigations in the paranormal documentary series Hellier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellier_(TV_series)) ─ John Keel and his books are mentioned in the series. The whole series is available on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2NwCAEpwXKuHIc2v6jgXw), as well as freely downloadable in very high resolution from the investigators' own website (https://www.hellier.tv/), although I would recommend not going the route of the high-resolution videos right away due to the fact that the overall bandwidth of the internet is very badly compromised right now.

Over at the sister forums The One Truth and Eye-Rise, we've got a complete playlist of both seasons, with direct links to each individual episode from an index in the opening post(s). I was going to do that here as well, but as you've already undoubtedly noticed, the circumstances haven't exactly been ideal for such an endeavor, with the server periodically being unavailable and all that.

So, to summarize, here are the links where you can watch the whole series so far ─ five episodes for Season One, ten episodes for Season Two:


The One Truth ─ single thread, both seasons (https://jandeane81.com/showthread.php/13307-Hellier)
Eye-Rise ─ Hellier Season One (http://eye-rise.com/forum/showthread.php?11551-Hellier-Season-1)
Eye-Rise ─ Hellier Season Two (http://eye-rise.com/forum/showthread.php?11552-Hellier-Season-2)
YouTube ─ Planet Weird channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCH2NwCAEpwXKuHIc2v6jgXw)
hellier.tv ─ the project's own website (https://hellier.tv) (very high resolution only)


Here's a quick trailer. ;)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XkbF35lZEk


Given that the series is available for free, it would also make for a very good addition to the Library, but then we'd need a whole lot more storage space and a lot more bandwidth than we currently have, because each of the high-resolution videos is between 1.5 GiB and 3 GiB in size. So if Bill and Tintin approve of this material as an addition to the Library, then it would only be after we've moved over the entire Project Avalon infrastructure to a more powerful server with more storage space and more bandwidth, which will probably happen simultaneously with the upgrade from vBulletin 4 to vBulletin 5.

:)

[Tangri]

hello team PA.. I am looking for any books on Indrid Cold - Moth man prophecies// visitors from lanulos

Thanks very much for this request Parsi-X. Bear with me here; I'll probably need to have a dig around tomorrow (UK) now but it's flagged on my 'to do'. I'm pretty certain 'Mothman' material is in the library. Hang on in there :highfive:Here's a bunch of books which all feature the word 'Indrid' (an unusual word!):


John Keel - The Mothman Prophecies.pdf



John Keel - The Complete Guide to Mysterious Beings.pdf
John Keel - The Eighth Tower.pdf
David Icke - Tales From The Time Loop.pdf
Michael Talbot - The Holographic Universe.pdf
Allen Greenfield - Secret Rituals of the Men in Black.pdf

Here's the download link, valid for 7 days till 2 April 2020:


https://we.tl/t-wGqZEfymOh (80 Gb)


Hi Bill,

" John Keel - The Eighth Tower.pdf" downloads as

John Keel - The Cosmic Question.pdf. again

[Parsi-X]

hello all.. I am looking to read Meet the Hybrids by Barbara Lamb and Miguel Mendoca..would anyone here have a copy? Thank you :)

[Parsi-X]

Has anyone got a copy of Dr Salla's new book on China's SSP? RISE OF THE RED DRAGON: CHINA’S SECRET SPACE PROGRAM?

[Bluegreen]

Unavailable for free at present time

:)

https://michaelsalla.com/2020/04/20/new-book-rise-of-the-red-dragon-origins-threat-of-chinas-secret-space-program/

[Parsi-X]

Here you go: https://concen.org/sites/default/files/torrents/Rise%20of%20the%20Red%20Dragon.epub_.torrent


Unavailable for free at present time

:)

https://michaelsalla.com/2020/04/20/new-book-rise-of-the-red-dragon-origins-threat-of-chinas-secret-space-program/

[Parsi-X]

Hello does anybody have a copy of LINK - An Extraterrestrial Odyssey by Dr Jonathan Reed? Thank you

[Bill Ryan]

Hello does anybody have a copy of LINK - An Extraterrestrial Odyssey by Dr Jonathan Reed? Thank youI checked, and I'm afraid we don't have it — and I can't find it online, either. (But do be aware, Jonathan Reed is a hoaxer.)

[Parsi-X]

hello would anyone have the following ebooks? Thank you in advance.

Meet The Hybrids by Barbara Lamb + Miguel Mendonca
Being with the Beings: The How and the Why of ET Contact by Miguel Mendonca






From Bill: not in the library, I'm afraid, and after a bit of a search online I can't [yet] find any ebooks.

[Sunny]

I used to be able to sort the Avalon Library by date, so I could see anything new quickly. I haven't been able to do that recently. Is it still possible to sort by date?

[Bluegreen]

No . . . . .

[Bill Ryan]

I used to be able to sort the Avalon Library by date, so I could see anything new quickly. I haven't been able to do that recently. Is it still possible to sort by date?Not since the server migration.... that was one of the small things that broke (or stopped working!). But we've asked Tommy to add the up-down "sort" option to the various columns. It should be quite easy to do. We fully agree how useful it can be.

[Sunny]

Would it be possible to have a thread that announces new material posted to the Avalon Library, with a link?

It takes a long time to find new things posted by scrolling down the page.

[Tintin]

Would it be possible to have a thread that announces new material posted to the Avalon Library, with a link?

It takes a long time to find new things posted by scrolling down the page.

Hi there :flower:

Thanks for asking.

We do have a search function built in to the library now - if you try a search on what you are looking for eg: fauci, mikovits,covid or really just about anything I'd hope that it'd pop up fairly quickly for you. If there is something that isn't there that you think should be by all means please do let me know and I'll try and source it.

And you've reminded me: I must provide an update to everyone soon about what's been happening to the library the past few months or so. There's been a lot!

I'll usually post these here (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/forumdisplay.php?183-Library-Updates) :highfive:

[Parsi-X]

would anyone have a copy of "ETs among us part 4"? this is the most elusive part. thank you :)

[Matthew]

I can't find it from a search, but might have missed it. Someone on twitter gave me a link to Fiona Bartlet's book, "Eyes Wide Open". Seems like a good fit, thought I would put it up for consideration :cocktail:

https://burners.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/eyes-wide-open-_fiona-barnett_first-edition_august-2019.pdf

[kfm27917]

The book can be downloaded for free at
https://1lib.us/book/5499087/1517e7

[Bluegreen]

would anyone have a copy of "ETs among us part 4"? this is the most elusive part. thank you :)

You could try this if you want

ETs Among Us 4: The Reality of ET/Human Hybrids

2NHPGFZCrHc
https://loadvid.com/ets-among-us-4-the-reality-of-et-human-hybrids-barbara-lamb-cybela-clare-cybela-clare/

[mojo]

After checking the Contents of the library please consider a new request American Marxism by Mark Levin. Thanks Bill for allowing requests.





From Bill:
We're quite good at finding things, but so far I've NOT been able to locate this as a PDF. If anyone happens to have it, please do email it to myself (bill@projectavalon.net) or Tintin (tintin@projectavalon.net). THX.

[mojo]

Hi Bill & team,

... was wondering if the Avalon Library can download Kindle type PDFs that are listed on Amazon? I remember sending a gift card to Bill from Amazon and it would be easy way to donate getting more books for the Library. I really appreciate this resource you created here for us.

[Bill Ryan]

Hi Bill & team,

... was wondering if the Avalon Library can download Kindle type PDFs that are listed on Amazon? I remember sending a gift card to Bill from Amazon and it would be easy way to donate getting more books for the Library. I really appreciate this resource you created here for us.That's a nice idea. :sun: However, as best I know, Kindle books are in their own special format. (It is possible to convert them, but I have no clue how to do that.)

And (I believe) if a Kindle book is bought, it can be electronically lent to another person for a specified period, but only one person can read it at a time. So all in all (again, as best I know), it's not really an open-source kind of thing.

[ThePythonicCow]

Please consider adding the movie A Child's Voice (https://tinyurl.com/ysxx36u6) to the Avalon Library.

A currently working link is posted at Post #58 of Panel: World Pedophile/child 'sacrifice' (ritualized murder!) network (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89447-Panel-World-Pedophile-child-sacrifice--ritualized-murder---network&p=1464890&viewfull=1#post1464890).

Thanks.

[meat suit]

Please consider adding the movie A Child's Voice (https://tinyurl.com/ysxx36u6) to the Avalon Library.

A currently working link is posted at Post #58 of Panel: World Pedophile/child 'sacrifice' (ritualized murder!) network (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89447-Panel-World-Pedophile-child-sacrifice--ritualized-murder---network&p=1464890&viewfull=1#post1464890).

Thanks.

yes please, add to library, that link only seems to work in the US.

[lake]

Please consider adding the movie A Child's Voice (https://tinyurl.com/ysxx36u6) to the Avalon Library.

A currently working link is posted at Post #58 of Panel: World Pedophile/child 'sacrifice' (ritualized murder!) network (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89447-Panel-World-Pedophile-child-sacrifice--ritualized-murder---network&p=1464890&viewfull=1#post1464890).

Thanks.

yes please, add to library, that link only seems to work in the US.

Here it is if you wish ....

HZvNgoTvAom0

Bitchute link instead .... if you wish to download then use this bitchute seed

https://seed151.bitchute.com/yDJUUCKqbu5W/HZvNgoTvAom0.mp4

[Tintin]

Please consider adding the movie A Child's Voice (https://tinyurl.com/ysxx36u6) to the Avalon Library.

A currently working link is posted at Post #58 of Panel: World Pedophile/child 'sacrifice' (ritualized murder!) network (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?89447-Panel-World-Pedophile-child-sacrifice--ritualized-murder---network&p=1464890&viewfull=1#post1464890).

Thanks.

yes please, add to library, that link only seems to work in the US.

'T'is done :thumbsup:

https://avalonlibrary.net/A_Childs_Voice.mp4

[Franny]

After checking the Contents of the library please consider a new request American Marxism by Mark Levin. Thanks Bill for allowing requests.





From Bill:
We're quite good at finding things, but so far I've NOT been able to locate this as a PDF. If anyone happens to have it, please do email it to myself (bill@projectavalon.net) or Tintin (tintin@projectavalon.net). THX.


This book can be found at the link below. It is in epub format and can be converted to PDF, mobi for Kindle and other formats on the website, then downloaded. Emailed the link to Tintin for inclusion in the library :thumbsup:

https://1lib.us/book/16897822/4a9f02

[mojo]

Is it possible to acquire Richard Dolans book on the secret breakaway societies & space force? Thank you

[Bill Ryan]

Is it possible to acquire Richard Dolans book on the secret breakaway societies & space force? Thank youNot really! Richard is a friend of the Avalon Forum, and wouldn't be very pleased or impressed if we featured his books in the library.

[PlasmaVortex]

Can we have Bill Still; The money masters?

[PlasmaVortex]

Can we have Sherlock Holmes murder by decree 1973 I believe

[lake]

Can we have Bill Still; The money masters?

Me being a tad confused .... so please excuse!

Do you mean the 3 1/2 hour video or is there a book as well?

I have the transcript of the video if that is what you are after?
I can make it a pdf!

[PlasmaVortex]

Can we have Bill Still; The money masters?

Me being a tad confused .... so please excuse!

Do you mean the 3 1/2 hour video or is there a book as well?

I have the transcript of the video if that is what you are after?
I can make it a pdf!

I think it deserves a place in the annals of Avalon but obviously that's down to bill/tintin. Either/or, but the video is preferable. It can really give a cold calculated analysis to the extent of financial chicanery subjected to everyone on earth, but it's presented in a way that's accessible by multiple generations, given the arcane nature of banking it demystifys the banking system perfectly.

[lake]

I think it deserves a place in the annals of Avalon but obviously that's down to bill/tintin. Either/or, but the video is preferable. It can really give a cold calculated analysis to the extent of financial chicanery subjected to everyone on earth, but it's presented in a way that's accessible by multiple generations, given the arcane nature of banking it demystifys the banking system perfectly.

Cool .... here is the video

https://xsac.uk/uploads/video/money/The Money masters - how international bankers gained control of America.mp4

And .... give me a minute or so and I will post the video transcript :)

Edit to add:

Please excuse the fact that I do not care about the quality of a video .... I just care about the information NOT being removed!

[lake]

And .... give me a minute or so and I will post the video transcript :)


Well .... thank you as you have just shown to me (albeit unknowingly) that 2 sites I run seem to be linked via databases?!?!?

Currently no idea why .... but interesting none the less!

Sorry the pdf of the video transcript will have to wait for the moment.
But actually you should be able to get the PDF from this link .... although the PDF is not perfect!
Listening to the video .... the transcript is not exact .... but isn't too bad!

https://xsac.uk/Money%20Masters%20text.pdf

[PlasmaVortex]

And .... give me a minute or so and I will post the video transcript :)


Well .... thank you as you have just shown to me (albeit unknowingly) that 2 sites I run seem to be linked via databases?!?!?

Currently no idea why .... but interesting none the less!

Sorry the pdf of the video transcript will have to wait for the moment.
But actually you should be able to get the PDF from this link .... although the PDF is not perfect!
Listening to the video .... the transcript is not exact .... but isn't too bad!

https://xsac.uk/Money%20Masters%20text.pdf

thankyou for your efforts kind sir

[lake]

Can we have Sherlock Holmes murder by decree 1973 I believe

https://seed131.bitchute.com/M0YyHr7r0rLQ/ccG5r2HDW4nM.mp4

https://seed131.bitchute.com/M0YyHr7r0rLQ/ccG5r2HDW4nM.mp4