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My Recreational Reading Log Staging Repository

(started 2022-07-25)

TLDR:

Supporting Material

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/
Digital Silk Road Project, a digital humanities research project about creating digital archives of cultural heritage based on collaboration between informatics and humanities -- with special emphasis on the Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books
The Biodiversity Heritage Library -- helping to "improve research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community."
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
1. 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
2. Find your library and sign in with your library card.
3. Browse or search to discover your next favorite book or audiobook.
4. Start reading & listening.
5. You can browse or search for books/audiobooks on Overdrive at https://www.overdrive.com/explore

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.
- History of engineering & technology on DOAB
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

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Repository History Notes and Testing Page

Just a short history of this site and a file for temporary markdown testing.

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