#papersbed

I apologize for the blog being so inactive for some months now, I’ve been busy with other projects and book hunting has been slow.

Maybe this isn’t something this blog’s followers will care terribly about, but I wanted to make my decision known just in case. I won’t be fully scanning any book in my collection unless they’re very rare finds, there’s a very small chance of reprinting and/or the author is dead. If the book is a recent release, I probably won’t go beyond the cover, and so and so. Positive licensing experiences, negative publishing experiences, meeting artists recently and social media making it easier to closely follow them has planted in me the seeds of guilt over making someone’s work available for free when they might still be living off artbook selling.

A part of me wants to share everything I have, but another part of me wants to show respect to creators. My experience in this hobby has always been tied to piracy but I’m trying to change that. I love these works, and I want to be fair to the people involved in their release.