Google Surveys Google Tag Manager (noscript) End Google Tag Manager (noscript) SKIP TO MAIN CONTENT VICE VICELAND i-D United States en Video Podcasts News Tech Music Food Health Money Drugs Election 2020 Identity Games Entertainment Environment Travel Horoscopes Sex More Advertisement by Karl Bode Sep 10 2019, 2:26pm Share Tweet Image: Bibica via Getty Images A coalition of archivists, activists, and libraries are working overtime to make it easier to identify the many books that are secretly in the public domain, digitize them, and make them freely available online to everyone. The people behind the effort are now hoping to upload these books to the Internet Archive , one of the largest digital archives on the internet. As it currently stands, all books published in the U.S. before 1924 are in the public domain , meaning they’re publicly owned and can be freely used and co...