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A catalogue page for every book ever published, a good many of them borrowable straight in the browser.
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Open Library sits in Free Libraries under Learn, and we have it filed as coffee break — five to fifteen minutes of proper attention. It reads as useful and cosy.
Public-domain books, scanned art, academic archives and collections built by people who cared far too much about one subject. Bring time.
The preprint server where most physics, maths and computer science appears long before a journal touches it.
Centuries of natural history books scanned page by page, including illustrations nobody has looked at in decades.
The French national library's digital collection — manuscripts, maps, newspapers and photographs, millions of items deep.
Gigapixel scans from two thousand museums, plus the experiments that let you find your own face in a painting.
Seventeen million scanned volumes from research libraries, with full-text search running across the entire lot.
Books, films, software, concerts and the web itself, archived at a scale no other institution has come close to.
A vast and aggressively plain archive of religious and mythological texts, essentially unchanged since the old web.
Public domain books read aloud by volunteers, free to download, uneven in quality and endless in supply.