Index

CONTENTS
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS                                                    5

IT'S A NUMBERS GAME                                                7

Offline File Sharing                                               8
On Piracy                                                          9
Basics of the Personal Portable Library                           11
Online and Offline - Bread and Butter                             13
Data Lockers                                                      14 
The Politics of Data Lockers                                      15
Data Lockers and Copyright                                        16
How are Personal Portable Libraries Used?                         18

TOWARDS A HISTORY OF THE PERSOHAL PORTABLE LIBRARY                20
The Angel of the Digital: Protecting Digital Scribes and Copyists 20
Ancient Libraries                                                 22
The Library of Alexandria                                         23
After Alexandria                                                  25
Alexandria Library - Personal Portable Library                    26
The Development of the Library, Medieval to Modern                27
The Case of Walter Benjamin’s Personal Semi-Portable Library      30

ON/OFF/LINE                                                       32
Online Precarity                                                  32
Napster                                                           34 
Library.nu                                                        36
Aaaaarg.org                                                       37
Archive.org                                                       38
Gutenberg Project                                                 38
Avaxho.me                                                         39
Libgen                                                            39
Others                                                            39
Offline Approaches                                                40
The Dead Drops Project                                            40
The PirateBox System                                              40
Copy This Drive                                                   41
deadSwap                                                          42
Datafield                                                         42
Marcell Mars                                                      42

FUTURES AND POTENTIALS                                            44
Optimal Scenarios                                                 44
Suboptimal Scenarios                                              45
The End? No End                                                   47

REFERENCES                                                        50