Like squirrels collecting nuts it is easy to try to fill a hard drive with “useful stuff” – just to have it available at some later date. The stuff of interest right now are various books I like/need/reread/ that are licensed under Creative Commons licenses. Often when I come across a CC licensed book of interest I tend save the file on my hard drive and write about it on the blog.
When I recently recommended Deazley, R., Kretschmer, M. & Bently, L. (2010) Privilege and Property: Essays on the History of Copyright, in this entry I got a comment that I could support their bandwidth by hosting the book. An easy request to fulfill. I also began thinking about files that occasionally disappear from the web and I decided to resolve part of this issue as well.
So instead of only saving the Creative Commons licensed books I like on my hard drive I created a page on my other blog for the books. If you have a book you would like to recommend please leave a suggestion in the comments section.