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Where to find e-books
- Standard Ebooks, a curated collection of free and libre ebooks. Via reddit.
- Project Gutenberg, a large collection of free ebooks.
- Litteraturbanken, svenska klassiker. Via egen länknot.
- Z-Lib ,
z-lib.orgdomain seized, access via TOR or "personal domains" instead. - Library Genesis
- Anna's Archive, an open-source search engine for shadow libraries like Sci-Hub, Libgen, and Z-Library that aims to catalog all books in existence. Via TorrentFreak.
- The Internet Archive books collection. Very varying quality, some only for lending (via libraries), not download.
- Open Library, an open, editable library catalog by the Internet Archive. I'm not sure how it relates to IA's book collection.
- OpenStax, a growing collection of chemistry/physics/math textbooks made available under open licenses.
- World Bank's open knowledge repository, over 34000 publications.
- BookFinder, a search engine for new, used, and out-of-print books.
- AbeBooks, another search engine for used and out-of-print books.
- Helda Open Books, monographs from different disciplines written/edited by University of Helsinki faculty.
Managing your ebook collection
- Calibre, the software for managing all aspects of your ebook library. Created by Kovid Goyal, maintained by hundreds of contributors. Project repo.
- For a full-fledged web interface to your Calibre library, look no further than Calibre-web. Just like Calibre's built-in server, Calibre-web also supports OPDS, which makes it easy to integrate with mobile apps such as Librera Reader.
- COPS, a Calibre PHP OPDS server. A less-powerful alternative to Calibre-web, in my opinion. But it served me well for some time before I discovered Calibre-web.
Tools for finding e-books
Reading e-books
Recently discovered Thorium Reader. Works very nicely on the Linux desktop and connects to our Calibre-Web OPDS server. My Ansible role.
Foliate is another nice desktop ebook reader. My Ansible role.
For reading on Android I use Librera Reader.
More links
- A not entirely bad guide to Calibre (desktop only) by MakeTechEasier.
- Library Athena, books from Project Gutenberg neatly displayed for reading in the browser.
- https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ynipok/pirated_ebook_site_zlibrary_vanishessending/
This directory provides an index of 1506 books published across 79 Pressbooks networks. Search and filter books by keyword, subject matter, license, and more.
Via Edtech Factotum
Web-based book. Looks really interesting. By Matthew Butterick, 2014.
Via Amolith.
Here's a library of thousands of book illustrations from old books, with searchable name, artist, source, date, which book it was in, etc.
Via Jason Kottke
- Volume I - Methodology and African Prehistory
- Volume II - Ancient civilizations of Africa
- Volume III - Africa from the Seventh to the Eleventh Century
- Volume IV - Africa from the Twelfth to the Sixteenth Century
- Volume V - Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- Volume VI - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
- Volume VII - Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935
- Volume VIII - Africa since 1935
Our Calibre library has PDFs of the above books.
Under preparation by UNESCO:
- Volume IX
- Volume X (full-text not yet available)
- Volume XI
Links
A publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content.
Drivs av Svenska Akademien.
Litteraturbanken är en ideell förening med följande medlemmar Kungliga biblioteket, Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien, Språkbanken vid Göteborgs universitet, Svenska Akademien, Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland och Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet.