The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections, and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
One of the best features of the Internet Archive is the many types of content they collect. The Moving Image and Audio collections by Internet Archive are very substantial, as is the massive Text Archive.
Try the archive's site OpenLibrary for an interface to the published books on archive.org and links to other online book collections.
The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.
Hints for Using OpenLibrary
OpenLibrary's goal is to create a webpage for EVERY book, but not every title has an e-book along with it. To find OpenLibrary's over 1,000,000 books, you should to follow these susggestions:
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This book can be read online or downloaded in the following formats: PDF, plain text (.txt), Daisy, ePub, DjVu, Mobi or sent to a Kindle. |
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This book can be borrowed if your library participates in Overdrive.com. |
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This format is for the visually impaired, and you need a "key" or special code from the Library of Congress to unlock this format. |