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General Discussion / Re: Copyright?

Last post by cathgrl - April 09, 2025, 08:48:35 AM

With the recent executive order eliminating federal funding for libraries and museums, this has ramifications for interlibrary loan services. My school library website will have limited issues as far as I am concerned. Intastate interlibrary loan availability will be affected, according to my school library personnel (I live out of state) and my state library personnel. Thank goodness there are books available at isidore.co and other locations that are downloadable. Archive.org had issues with hackers in fall 2024 that had the website unavailable for weeks.

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Forum-Related / Re: Suggestions & Problems

Last post by Geremia - April 05, 2025, 01:46:52 PM

I use Calibre for my home library as well and it has an option to search the internet for books via an icon labeled "get books". It has a variety of sources that can be searched, such as Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg & numerous others. Unfortunately, Isidore.co is not one of those options.

Oh, you want to add a store to Calibre for the Isidore.co library?
There is an OPDS feed: https://isidore.co/calibre/opds/navcatalog/4f6e6577657374
And the OPDS Client plugin that allows importing books from OPDS feeds.

But I think you'd like an "Isidore.co Store" made. They're basically plugins.

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Forum-Related / Re: Suggestions & Problems

Last post by justjeff - April 05, 2025, 10:16:16 AM

Their search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them.

LibGen already has most of the books from the Isidore.co library. Isidore.co is 6,192 books. It's tiny compared to shadow libraries' collections like Anna's Archive's 43,206,948 books.

Sorry, I should have spelled my question out better. It started on the subject line, so it was unclear. I have added the following edit in blue: to that original post to hopefully clear things up a bit:

Their search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them. I suppose that is hardwired in, but I am no power user of Calibre. Perhaps there is an option to add your site to their list, or maybe there is a plug in or extension that would do so?

added via edit: I use Calibre for my home library as well and it has an option to search the internet for books via an icon labeled "get books". It has a variety of sources that can be searched, such as Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg & numerous others. Unfortunately, Isidore.co is not one of those options. I am wondering, if there is a way to add Isidore.co to those options so that if I come across a reference to a book I could do the search across multiple online platforms at once, including Isidore? Ideally, there is some way to manually add websites to their search engine database, but if not, perhaps there is already an extension that someone is aware of that could add St. Isidore &/or other sites?

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Catholic Resources / Happy feast of St. Isidore of ...

Last post by Geremia - April 04, 2025, 08:40:04 PM

St. Isidore, --  , Saint of the Day, as told by St. Louis meteorologist Mike Roberts on Covenant ...

Happy feast of St. Isidore of Seville today, encyclopedist, patron of this forum, author of the Etymologies, and brother of St. Leander!

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Catholic Resources / April 4 Saint Isidore Of Sevil...

Last post by justjeff - April 04, 2025, 08:16:48 PM

St. Isidore, --  , Saint of the Day, as told by St. Louis meteorologist Mike Roberts on Covenant ...

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Forum-Related / Re: Suggestions & Problems

Last post by Geremia - April 04, 2025, 08:08:21 PM

Their search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them.

LibGen already has most of the books from the Isidore.co library. Isidore.co is 6,192 books. It's tiny compared to shadow libraries' collections like Anna's Archive's 43,206,948 books.

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Forum-Related / Re: Suggestions & Problems

Last post by Geremia - April 04, 2025, 08:06:18 PM

It also looks like the google books link is no longer valid.

I don't remember what palisadehealer had in that Google Drive link anyways.

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Forum-Related / Re: Suggestions & Problems

Last post by justjeff - April 04, 2025, 01:29:32 PM

P.S. I was able to gather some more materials from friends... may I send them to you for as contribution to the collection of sound Catholic materials?

(There are also various books of cultural worth, but most of them are specifically concerned with understanding, living, and propagating the Faith.)


https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bIs0TAC1bS9HppLwvgCitgRkwN-78w9F?usp=sharing


Here is a link to the cloud storage where I've transferred them... I hope these may help many more souls! Again, thank you so much for all your kind work.

Perhaps this is old news, but it looks like the libgen site was seized by the feds. Hopefully my browser didn't provide them with a referrer link.

It also looks like the google books link is no longer valid.

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#9

Forum-Related / Is there a way to change Calib...

Last post by justjeff - April 04, 2025, 01:15:12 PM

Their search engine has a selection of sites that they peruse, but Isidore.co is not one of them. I suppose that is hardwired in, but I am no power user of Calibre. Perhaps there is an option to add your site to their list, or maybe there is a plug in or extension that would do so?

added via edit: I use Calibre for my home library as well and it has an option to search the internet for books via an icon labeled "get books". It has a variety of sources that can be searched, such as Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg & numerous others. Unfortunately, Isidore.co is not one of those options. I am wondering, if there is a way to add Isidore.co to those options so that if I come across a reference to a book I could do the search across multiple online platforms at once, including Isidore? Ideally, there is some way to manually add websites to their search engine database, but if not, perhaps there is already an extension that someone is aware of that could add St. Isidore &/or other sites?

[Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX)]

#10

Anti-Modernism / Re: Traditional Catholic Group...

Last post by Geremia - April 04, 2025, 11:44:17 AM

Here's a summary of the transcript:

The video provides an overview of Catholic groups skeptical of Vatican II, categorizing them into Una Cum and Sedevacantist groups. Here's a structured summary:

Una Cum Groups

• Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX): Largest traditional group, accepts the Pope but rejects parts of Vatican II. Uses the traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missal), rejecting the Novus Ordo's viability.
• Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP): Accepts Vatican II, uses both 1962 and pre-1955 Mass forms, viewing the Latin Mass as their specific charism.

Sedevacantist Groups

• Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI): Rejects the current Pope, uses pre-1955 Mass, notable for The Singing Nuns.
• Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV): Rejects Vatican II, uses pre-1955 Mass, operates a YouTube channel and monastery.
• Roman Catholic Institute (ICR): Split from SSPV, similar beliefs, runs a school and uses pre-1955 Mass.
• Most Holy Family Monastery: Advocates "stay-at-home" sanism, rejects Church authorities.

Other Groups

• Old Catholic Churches: Split over Vatican I, now largely liberal, some more traditional.
• Independent Groups: Elect their own Popes, e.g., Palmarian Catholic Church with its own Missal, and former SSPX seminarian David Boden as Pope Michael.

This summary highlights each group's main beliefs, Mass practices, and notable features, providing a clear overview of the discussed Catholic groups.

It doesn't seem to discuss the question of the validity of Novus Ordo sacraments (besides the Mass)—notably, whether episcopal consecration, priestly ordination, and baptism are valid in the Vatican II new sacraments:

There's even more variety of opinion on this (even among some particular trad groups).