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    1. Westo
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      The Libby app + a library card is fantastic.

      The Libby app + a library card is fantastic.

      1 vote
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    JoshuaJ
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    For textbooks see: https://openstax.org/subjects And https://libretexts.org/

    For textbooks see:

    https://openstax.org/subjects

    And

    https://libretexts.org/

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    1. dvc
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      I'll piggyback a more specialized textbook resource off your comment: The American Institute of Mathematics is a patron to the open textbook initiative that are audited and free.

      I'll piggyback a more specialized textbook resource off your comment: The American Institute of Mathematics is a patron to the open textbook initiative that are audited and free.

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    dredmorbius
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    Amongst the ... legal ... sources: Project Gutenberg The Internet Archive, notably the Open Library. IA also host a large number of audio books, including much of Libravox. Libravox, for audio...

    Amongst the ... legal ... sources:

    • Project Gutenberg
    • The Internet Archive, notably the Open Library. IA also host a large number of audio books, including much of Libravox.
    • Libravox, for audio books in the public domain.
    • Wikisource. Note that this is not Wikipedia, but one of the ancillary Wikimedia projects.
    • I've just come across the Online Books page.
    • Local public and/or academic libraries may offer additional options. Registering at a local community college may give you offsite access to much of its collection.

    And of course, LibGen, ZLib, and Sci-Hub, for other works.

    Books / documents from all these sources can be sideloaded onto many e-ink tablet ebook readers. I've been using an Onyx BOOX for the past few years and am pretty happy with it. (See recent comments for an overview.)

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      petrichor
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      Notably also Anna's Archive, which is a functional successor to both LibGen and ZLib. I believe Standard Ebooks sources their books from Project Gutenberg to typeset them.

      Notably also Anna's Archive, which is a functional successor to both LibGen and ZLib.

      I believe Standard Ebooks sources their books from Project Gutenberg to typeset them.

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        dredmorbius
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        Good points. AFAIU Anna's Archive is a firehose / corpus that would be downloaded in bulk. I'm not aware of any interfaces which permit selecting individual items from it. And yes, SEB largely...

        Good points.

        AFAIU Anna's Archive is a firehose / corpus that would be downloaded in bulk. I'm not aware of any interfaces which permit selecting individual items from it.

        And yes, SEB largely sources from Gutenberg, though there are other sources as well:

        Standard Ebooks takes ebooks from sources like Project Gutenberg...

        https://standardebooks.org/

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          petrichor
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          I think you're confusing Anna's Archive with the Pirate Library Mirror (which was originally somewhat separate, they've now been rolled together). Anna's Archive has a web interface akin to...

          I think you're confusing Anna's Archive with the Pirate Library Mirror (which was originally somewhat separate, they've now been rolled together). Anna's Archive has a web interface akin to Archive.org.

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          1. dredmorbius
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            Indeed I was and thanks for the clarification!

            Indeed I was and thanks for the clarification!

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  4. Azuretower
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    For audio books you can make them yourself, sort of. https://speechify.com/ I don’t know where the line is between free and paid tiers but you can upload epubs that you get from places like...

    For audio books you can make them yourself, sort of. https://speechify.com/

    I don’t know where the line is between free and paid tiers but you can upload epubs that you get from places like project Gutenberg or Standard Ebooks and make audio books out of them.

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  5. st3ph3n
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    Excellent resource, thank you!

    Excellent resource, thank you!

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  6. elgis
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    Does anyone know of similar projects for books in other languages?

    Does anyone know of similar projects for books in other languages?

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