User:Cristinac/Comparisons

How do online libraries that provide free access distinguish themselves from each other?

Is the PDF that one downloads from aaaaarg different from a PDF that one downloads from Monoskop? Here I am looking at what the possible similarities and differences are between four resources: aaaaarg, Monoskop, Public Library and textz.com.

aaaaarg.fail	Monoskop	Public Library	textz.com
it requires an account to download texts	it doesn't require an account, but the possibility for it exists	it doesn't require an account and the possibility for it doesn't exist	it doesn't require an account, however, the collection has a password
it has multiple contributors	it has multiple, but few contributors	it has multiple contributors that are also identifiable	it is not possible to contribute to the collection anymore
self described as: a conversation platform, or alternatively, a school, reading group or journal	self described as: a wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities	self described as: a collection of collections	self described as: a warez database for texts
created by Sean Dockray: an artist, a founding director of the Los Angeles non-profit Telic Arts Exchange, and initiator of knowledge-sharing platforms, The Public School and Aaaarg.org	created by Dušan Barok: an artist, writer and cultural activist involved in critical practise in the fields of software, art, and theory	created by Marcell Mars & Tomislav Medak: Marcell-a free software advocate, cultural explorer, and social instigator; Tomislav- a philosopher, a free software and free culture advocate and the project lead of Croatian Creative Commons team	created by Sebastian Lütgert: a writer, programmer, media artist and activist

Links to discussed libraries and other related websites:

• Public Library
• aaaaarg
• textz.com
• Monoskop
• unfold.thevolumeproject
• Genesis Library
• Catalogue of Liberated Books K_o_K
• ubuweb
• bookfi