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.org domain 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.
• OAPEN, Online library of open access academic books, operated by the National Library in The Hague.
• DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books), community-driven, operated by OAPEN.

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

• libby a commandline tool to search and download books from Library Genesis. Via lazybear.

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
• https://tenforward.social/@jeffcutsinger/113084913783829362

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