What do you think of the series Forgotten Books?
I've seen their books of amazon but I never bought any. It looks like they also make them available for download on their website.
Actually looks pretty interesting. Makes you wonder why they are forgotten.
>>8284920
It's probably because they suck.
>>8284920
Most old books are forgotten.
>>8284936
Possible. But then again universities and schools choose very often for us what ends up as the educational standard. And I don't think that they always make their choices on a purely objective level.
>>8284949
>le conspiracy model
>>8284957
Not necessarily a conspiracy. It's just like Kant said, if we let someone pick everything for us, we might miss out on a lot of interesting stuff.
>>8284841
>Vegetable Gardening
>Home Gardening
Was Big Gardening trying to hold the secret knowledge of cultivating cucumbers from us all along?
>>8284979
Something might be a super special secret.
>>8284841
Website
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en
>>8284996
You're quick.
>>8284949
most likely this. in my reading I've come across many philosophers, statesmen, and historical figures who opposed the ruling opinions of their age and are never mentioned nor are their works.
I look for their books on Amazon, abebooks, or eBay and they haven't been in print for decades, sometimes longer. Besides every bookstore carrying the same Locke, Hobbes, Nietzsche, Marx selections, it kinda makes you wonder.
>The Belief of the Jewish People and of the Most Eminent Gentile Philosophers, More Especially of Plato and Aristotle, in a Future State: Briefly Considered; Including an Examination Into Some of the Leading Principles Contained in Bishop Warburton's Divine Legation of Moses; In a Discourse Preached Before the University of Oxford at St. Mary's, March 30, 1828; With Notes and an Appendix
Of course it's forgotten, how the fuck would anyone remember this shit?
>>8284841
This is great. Thank you.
They're one of those companies that mass-prints facsimiles. I have one from them—from back before I got smart and started buying used books.
It's not bad. They do an acceptable job.
>>8284841
I got Boole's Laws of Thought from them, and it was unreadable, with severe typographical errors in the notation and formulas crucial to understanding the text.
>>8285384
pithy
They have one free book everyday. Most of the times they are irrelevant for me.
>>8285384
kek'd
>>8284841
in what universe are the works of mark twain "forgotten"?
>>8284841
Croatian Tales of Long Ago is some GOAT-tier folklore and mythology
>>8289021
The Holy Bible isn't forgotten either.
these are an actual series? I assumed this was just the generic image amazon et al. give to certain books they don't have a proper cover for.
>>8289986
the bible is not on the list
several commentaries of the bible are on the list, but they are ten a penny
>>8284841
Anything on this list that ISN'T absolute shit?
>>8289188
>folklore
REEEEEEE
Mažuranić literally made up all of those stories herself.
It's a great book, though, I agree. I wonder how does the translation deal with some of the subtler phrases.
The printing kind of sucks tbqh
>>8290248
>pretentious pseud faggot: the post
I refuse to believe that you are familiar with all of the works, or even all of the authors in that image.
>>8290446
My copy of Lermontov's Demon is printed computer paper bound with staples. It's cheap, but they print to order.
>>8290468
I'm not, that's why I'm asking.
>>8290474
Might want to phrase it less arrogantly then, famalam.
>>8284841
I have one edition from them, Taras Bulba by Gogol.
It's and old-ass translation, but it works fine.
>>8284920
Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap.
This website is just some scam doing crappy prints of books in the public domain.
>>8284982
I put six inches on my cucumber with this one weird old trick!
>>8290474
excellent rejoinder
Does anyone have membership on their site?Could you download some .pdfs and send them to me?
>>8290763
post which ones you want at least
>>8290791
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/ThePoemsofOssian_10180169
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/ThePoemsofOssian_10199175
>>8290524
>This website is just some scam
The PDFs are free online and you can download them, what are you talking about?
>>8290803
Have you tried clicking the Download button?
...
>>8290810
I have. Then I get a pdf where every tenth page is asking me to buy the membership.
>>8290810
nvm, I just checked it....
>>8290806
The pdf's have missing pages, they ask for a full membership in order to give you the full book.
>>8290803
>https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/ThePoemsofOssian_10180169
https://archive.org/details/poemsofossiantr00macp
>>8290803
Have you tried
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/ossian/
https://archive.org/details/poemsofossianson07macp
http://www.exclassics.com/ossian/ossian.pdf
?
>>8290837
Shit... Well maybe you can use the site as a catalog of previews and then download the books that seem good from Gutenberg
Nearly all the books in this series is found on archive if not on project gutenberg. Pretty pointless imo unless you can't find a second hand copy
