Donate to the Fair Use Repository
The Fair Use Repository at fair-use.org is an effort to allow for easy citation of documents online. We compile, and (where necessary) transcribe electronic copies of (1) documents in the public domain, and (2) the portions of documents cited in fair use by participating researchers. We are working to make citation easy for human researchers and readers to use, and to encourage, by example, best practices in using semantic XHTML to mark up the passages of printed documents that we transcribe.
We put texts online in the hopes that they will be enjoyable, and useful to
readers and researchers. If you benefit from the work that has gone into the
Fair Use Repository, one way you can support the project is with a one-time or
an automatic monthly donation. I have a small annual budget of costs for
technical services and labor that are necessary to keep fair-use.org
online and operating. Donations allow this site to remain reader-supported.
Otherwise, I have to rely on the (very small) amount of revenue that I get
through Google ads to help keep up with the site's expenses. So, for what it's
worth, if you donate, then one side benefit is that it helps you and me free
ourselves from ad clutter. Every month that I receive at least $10.00
in gifts, I can (and will happily) take down the Google ads for one month (from
date that the total for that month hits $10.00). If you're interested
in helping get the ads taken down permanently, be sure to check out
the section below on setting up an annual gift or monthly
pledge.
If you would like to support this project, you can make a secure online donation using PayPal:
Sustaining Pledges
The most effective way for you to support the Fair Use Repository is to establish an automatic gift. Annual or monthly contributions provide money that I can count on to meet regular operating expenses and to budget for future needs. You can set up an annual donation or a monthly contribution through PayPal. Everything's painlessly automatic; you can, of course, choose to cancel at any time.
| $25.00 Annual |
$5.00 Monthly |
$10.00 Monthly |
$20.00 Monthly |
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| domain names | ads removed | electric |
My bills
This is a rough estimate of the expenses of maintaining the
fair-use.org website together with a modest estimation of the basic
living expenses involved in sustaining the home office and labor for building,
maintaining, and expanding the Fair Use Repository. Rather than try to calculate
an operating budget per se for the website (which would require some basically
arbitrary guesses at how to assign a wage to the labor that goes into
transcriptions and development), I have simply set my fundraising goal at
self-sustenance: the purpose is to make it possible to sustain
fair-use.org without worrying about bills, housing or food.
Primary domain registrationfair-use.org |
$8.99 / year | |
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| Primary bandwidth provider
Connection, 5 static IPs |
$120/month | $1,440.00 / year | Backup bandwidth provider
For load balancing and failsafe mechanism. |
$56 / month | $672.00 / year |
| Server maintenance and upgrades | $100.00 / year | |
| Rent
Home office, server space |
$350 / month | $4,200.00 / year |
| Gas and Electric
Averaged out over 12 month period
| $85 / month | $1,020.00 / year |
| Meals
Even a monk in the Scriptorium has to eat. |
$10 / week | $520.00 / year |
| Total fundraising goal | $7,660.99 |