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American Libraries
Colorful Favorites Goody Two-Shoes (details | read it) Publisher's chromolithographed pictorial wrappers c1888 Caw caw; or, the chronicle of crows (details | read it) The house that Jack built, a game of forfeits : to which is added, The entertaining fable of "The Magpie" (details | read it)... |
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Canadian Libraries
Internet Archive's 3 millionth book The Internet Archive and the University of Toronto are pleased to showcase two pamphlets from a volume of fifteen treatises on comets published from 1575 to 1606, as the Internet Archive's 3 millionth text: Galileo's Dialogo de Cecco di Ronchitti…de la... |
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Universal Library
The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning... |
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Community Texts
Open Source Books has been renamed to Community Books! (The URL is still the same, though.) These books are books contributed by the community. Click here to contribute your book! For more information and how-to please see http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#Texts_and_Books Uploaders, please... |
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Project Gutenberg
Books of Interest Alice Underground: being a facimile of the original book later developed into Alice in Wonderland (1882) (details | read it) The Dance (by An Antiquary): Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. (details | read it) Gulliver's Travels (details |... |
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Children's Library
Books of Interest Abroad (1882) (details | read it) What the moon saw : and other tales (1866) (details | read it) The crooked man and other rhymes (between 1851 and 1870) (details | read it) Carlo, or, Kindness rewarded (ca. 1870?) (details | read it) Jack and Jill and old Dame... |
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Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective... |
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Additional Collections
Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here. |
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