archivio grafton9 @grafton9@post.lurk.org

with a small donation you can help us buying out of print #books and #zines on flea markets and web shops
http://sostieni.link/23671

everything will be digitized and published on Internet Archive, for free, forever.
we don't spend money on infrastructure, neither on hardware. everything is lo-fi, low quality.

i tre colpi mortali che hanno ucciso la stampa. una delle più complete e brillanti analisi sul declino del #libro nella nostra società

La morte del libro, Erica Moira Pini, AAA Edizioni (1996)
https://archive.org/details/la-morte-del-libro/page/n0
https://radicalbiblio.wordpress.com/2019/07/11/la-morte-del-libro/

more: https://youtu.be/ABDJtpq1lzw
Genesis and the TOPY was there

Europe Against the Current, in 1989 in Amsterdam, was a festival on Alternative-Independent-Radical Information carriers.

these are the only informations i've found online:
https://archive.org/details/EuropeAgainstTheCurrent
http://imaginarymuseum.org/ETS/ETSeng.html
http://imaginarymuseum.org/imp_archive/AAA//AAAbib/TijenEuropeAgainst.html

do you know someone that was there and keeps the printed phamplet?

from today to sunday, in Milan: a temporary newsstand exposing independent publishing from 1960 to 2019
https://www.facebook.com/events/567221580719138/
https://youtu.be/JMHqGl0c4Po

this is our toolbox, for #books and #zine digitization.

are you using something similar? let's talk!

* some flatbed scanners, A4 size, the cheapest available on the market.
* Vuescan https://www.hamrick.com/ for managing the flatbed scanners. not free software, not cheap, but worths the money. the image editing functions will spare you time
* a DIYBOOKSCANNER https://www.diybookscanner.org/ - not the newest version, the previous, made in wood. buyed a kit from a producer in Latvia, in late 2013.
* 2 cameras: Nikon 1 J4 (black)
* this script: a simplistic wrapper around gphoto2 for acquisition from the cameras https://github.com/danyq/diybookscanner

a bunch of bash scripts, using some of these tools:
* vips https://libvips.github.io/libvips/
* imagemagick https://imagemagick.org/
* jpegexitorient https://github.com/CiderMan/jpegexiforient
* jbig2enc https://github.com/agl/jbig2enc
* feh image viewer https://feh.finalrewind.org/
* bagit https://github.com/LibraryOfCongress/bagit-python
* ia cli https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive

the biggest part of the job is done using scantailor-advanced: https://github.com/4lex4/scantailor-advanced
it's a bit of pain to recompile on macos, but it works great.
cpu requirements are intensive, so sometimes we prefer to spin a temporary windows desktop in amazon aws ec2 just for the minutes of processing

introducing self: Grafton9, a diy archiving initiative of italian books, zines and journals of autonomous left and grassroots squats, of late '90s (but not only). very low quality, very low profile, a lot of activities on hacking tools and software for digitization and publishing on the web, and collecting rare published materials.

https://grafton9.net
https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection:grafton9

everything can be browsed, downloaded, keeped offline.