(started 2022-07-25)
This is where I maintain a list of the books that I am reading or have read or are considering reading since 25 July 2022 (when I started tracking my reading).
Sources for Out-of-Copyright - Open-Access eBooks
- Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/
- The Univ. Penn. Online Books Page at https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ (An index of over three million online books freely readable on the Internet)
- Standard Ebooks https://standardebooks.org/
- Internet Archive https://archive.org/ and https://archive.org/details/inlibrary
- Tufts Univ. Perseus Digital Library https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections
- Tufts Digital Library https://dl.tufts.edu/catalog
- Evans Early American Imprint Collection https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans?cginame=text-idx;id=navbarbrowselink;key=subject;page=browse
- World Digital Library (WDL) projec https://www.loc.gov/books/collections/ or the broader https://www.loc.gov/collections/ from the U.S. Library of Congress
- Baen Free Library (science fiction) https://www.baen.com/
- Smashwords https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/home/1/free/any
Sources for Audio Books
- All free at https://librivox.org/ This is an all-volunteer effort. The quality of the recordings varies, but a large percentage are excellent.
- Project Gutenberg Audio Books,
- Human-read https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1
- Computer-generated audio https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/2
- In partnership with Microsoft, Proj.Gutenberg has started high quality, computer-generated audio recordings of open source texts. See their initial list of titles cached here [large 1.5MB file] or the original at: https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-public/Website/browse.html [larger ~2.6MB]
- Overdrive/Libby from my local public library. One of the greatest city services available after water and sewer. With Libby, the library reading app, you can borrow ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more from your local library for free (OK -- your library pays a generally small fee for each resource you read. Consider making an annual donation to your library.). Libby is the newer library reading app by OverDrive. See: https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby
- Download and open Libby on your device.
- Find where to download the app or watch a short video on getting started on the Libby help page
- Find your library and sign in with your library card.
- Browse or search to discover your next favorite book or audiobook.
- Start reading & listening.
- You can browse or search for books/audiobooks on Overdrive at https://www.overdrive.com/explore
- Download and open Libby on your device.
Sources for Commercial and "Open Access" Books
- Ebooks via Overdrive/Libby from my local public library. You can browse or search for books/audiobooks on Overdrive at https://www.overdrive.com/explore (see the OverDrive/Libby bullet above for more information).
- Directory of Open Access Books https://www.doabooks.org](https://directory.doabooks.org) and https://directory.doabooks.org/discover. DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
- unglue.it and https://ebookfoundation.org/unglueit.html
- Some Free Programming Books https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ and search the list at https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books-search/
- NASA's ebook collection https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html
- Taylor & Francis Open Access Book program https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/books
- Access Taylor & Francis Open Access Books https://www.routledge.com/our-products/open-access-books/accessing-oa-books
- Routledge Open Access Books https://www.routledge.com/our-products/open-access-books/accessing-oa-books
- Taylor & Francis Open Access Journal program https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals
- Access Taylor & Francis Open Access Journals https://www.tandfonline.com/openaccess/openjournals
- Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) online library https://www.oapen.org
- Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) https://oaspa.org/
- Bloomsbury Collections: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord&browse&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess
- And some books still under copyright are available at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/inlibrary
Repository History Notes and Testing Page
Just a short history of this site and a file for temporary markdown testing.