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Post by Hermit » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:25 pm

This thread is meant to be a resource centre rather than for discussion.

Existentialist1844 started a thread called What's on your bookshelf?. It made me wonder what links you know of to books that are available online. Although I prefer to read books on actual paper, the digital versions are so much easier to look particular parts up on. This thread is meant to give links for that purpose to resources.

The most obvious one is Project Gutenberg. It contains copies of more than 28,000 books. They are all out of copyright, so you won't find any recent publications, but the library is great for classics. Project Gutenberg also maintains sites for books originally written in French, German and other languages.

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin, including all six separate editions of Origin of Species.

Marx/Engels Collected Works. Not complete, and caveats apply, (see introductory note) but quite extensive.

The Athenaeum Library of Philosopy. Again, mostly out-of copyright material

A Russian site that contains excellent copies of nine of Richard Dawkins' books, including The God Delusion and the latest edition of The Selfish Gene. Use <Ctrl-F> and "Watchmaker" (don't use the quote marks) to get to them. I don't know if Dawkins would be pleased about this, although I'm sure he must know about it.

Speaking about books the copyright of which has not run out yet, I have found full copies of all five volumes of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker trilogy. :biggrin:

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:30 pm

United States Army Green Books (PDF)

Hyperwar, A Hypertext History of WWII.

WWII Resources

Complete books, documents, etc.,

The Antebellum United States Navy

SecNav Annual Reports, Naval Registers, Documents regarding the manning, equipage, and development of the USN prior to the War of Northern Aggression. (And documents on the suppression of the slave trade.)
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Post by Hermit » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:03 pm

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Post by maiforpeace » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:18 pm

Nice! Thanks Seraph and Gawdzilla!
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:22 pm

Internet Archive. Out of copyright books, interesting to me for the ever-shifting perspective on events.

Combined Arms Digital Research Library.

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Post by Hermit » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:47 pm

Perhaps I should have mentioned that this thread is meant to be about literature that can be read/downloaded for free.
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Post by DRSB » Sat Apr 16, 2011 3:51 pm

Seraph wrote:Perhaps I should have mentioned that this thread is meant to be about literature that can be read/downloaded for free.
In this link that I posted the membership is free and there are many books there, even totally new, also for free, it is like a library.

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Post by Hermit » Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:09 pm

Do you know any direct links for a book, or a collection of books without having to wade about in other stuff? That's what this thread is meant to be about.

A couple more: Island and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
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