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- Project Gutenberg – Library of over 60k free eBooks https://www.gutenberg.org/ 80 comments
- 'Bartleby the Scrivener' – Herman Melville (1853) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11231 3 comments
- Hall of Mirrors (1953) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29720/pg29720-images.html 9 comments
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- Thirty-Seven Days of Peril (1871) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30924 2 comments
- Technology Bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Technology_(Bookshelf) 12 comments
- Simple HTML parsing library https://gutenberg.org 8 comments haskell
- What is your favorite Project Gutenberg title? https://www.gutenberg.org/ 12 comments books
- Ma in Italia hanno oscurato il progetto gutemberg? https://www.gutenberg.org 48 comments italy
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4367 6 comments history
- Did Sir Thomas Gresham really drink diamonds? http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm 3 comments history
- Project Gutenberg is now uploading books published in 1923 http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/58585 57 comments books
- Project Gutenberg is the world's largest digital library of over 57,000 free ebooks. Contains some of the most important literary works in history. https://www.gutenberg.org 385 comments books
- Project Gutenberg is the single most important, heavily underutilized, underrated resource in existence http://www.gutenberg.org 1176 comments books
- Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - a great popular maths book from 1909 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13447 3 comments math
- Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg!! http://www.gutenberg.org/ 10 comments books
- Project Gutenberg offline - domain not re-registered. http://www.gutenberg.org 5 comments technology
- Books (re)sources https://www.gutenberg.org 3 comments books
- Chrome extension notifies users when books are available for free as E-books/Audiobooks [i'm the designer] http://www.gutenberg.org 179 comments books
- Essay by George Eliot: "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists." The funniest literary criticism I have ever read. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28289/28289-h/28289-h.htm#page178 10 comments books
- Free ebooks by Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ 67 comments books
- Don't forget to check Project Gutenberg for free, legal, public domain e-books before you pay for them! https://www.gutenberg.org 24 comments books
- For serendipitous discovery of books, I created r/RandomGutenbergFinds, whereby if you click the Random Button it'll immediately serve up 30 random selections from Gutenberg's library of approximately 50,000 books - If you find something interesting, please submit it here :) http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?sort_order=random 5 comments books
- I found a really old book at a used book shop. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3999/3999-h/3999-h.htm 8 comments books
- Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here! Christmas Eve is upon us! 'A Christmas Carol' readers: Did you finish? What do you think of the book? http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm 4 comments books
- Which of these old-timey humour books are worth reading and why? http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Humor_(Bookshelf) 7 comments books
- The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilmore http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1952/1952-h/1952-h.htm 10 comments books
- What lost treasures have you found? http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7947 7 comments books
- Not sure how many of you know this already, but Project Gutenberg offers tons of free Ebooks. If its public domain chances are they have it. http://www.gutenberg.org/ 6 comments books
- I believe Chapter 94 of Moby Dick to be the most subversive piece of writing in all American literature. Discuss. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2701/2701-h/2701-h.htm#link2HCH0094 15 comments books
- Amazing book on colonial period of Korea http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13368 3 comments history
- Plato's "Timaeus" http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1572 5 comments philosophy
- Europe As It Should Be: "the boundaries of the various nations as they would look if the bulk of the people of each nationality were included in a single political division." - Louis Paul Bénézet (1918) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11200/11200-h/map24.jpg 58 comments europe
- The Oldest Code of Laws in the World b.c. 2285-2242 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17150/17150-h/17150-h.htm 5 comments history
- "The Grand Inquisitor" from Dostoyevsky's 'The Brothers Karamazov', a reflection on religious morality perhaps unsurpassed in its philosophical economy. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.html#toc85 4 comments philosophy
- Moby-Dick read by a robot: has anyone actually sat through this embarrassment? http://www.gutenberg.org/files/9147/mp3/9147-003.mp3 3 comments books
- "To My Old Master" - A letter from a former slave to his previous owner, after he had been requested to come back and work on his farm after the war ended. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38479/38479-h/38479-h.htm#page_265 4 comments politics
- Favourite book on Project Gutenberg? http://www.gutenberg.org/ 5 comments books
- Emily Post's "Etiquette in Society", free on Project Gutenberg. My, how society has changed. Some of these sections/comments are shocking; others, hilarious. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14314/14314-h/14314-h.htm 10 comments books
- Best Repository for Public Domain Philosophy Books? http://www.gutenberg.org/ 6 comments philosophy
- Thus spake Zarathustra: problem with understanding a God argument. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1998/1998-h/1998-h.htm#2H_4_0030 18 comments philosophy
- The Harvard Classics Bookshelf; a 51-volume anthology of classic works of world literature http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Harvard_Classics_%28Bookshelf%29 7 comments books
- Reddit, if you had a lot of free bandwidth, what legal torrents would you seed? http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_CD_and_DVD_Project#Downloading_Via_BitTorrent 53 comments technology
- The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, free for download. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/731 7 comments history
- Just finished War and Peace... http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2600/2600-h/2600-h.htm#2H_4_0370 5 comments books
- The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell - philosophy takes patience, so forget youtube and read the book for free at Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5827 4 comments philosophy
- Not a book, per se, but has anyone read Alexander Pope's Essay on Man? http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2428 10 comments books
- Where to find E-Books for new e-reader owners and old! http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page 30 comments books
- Brilliant and hilarious calculus textbook from 1910 available for free on Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/files/33283/33283-pdf.pdf 118 comments math
- The Gutenberg Science Fiction Bookshelf http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf) 19 comments books
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- Children prefer to read books on paper rather than screens http://theconversation.com/children-prefer-to-read-books-on-paper-rather-than-screens-74171 3448 comments
- Opinion | Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should all be outraged. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/opinions/incarcerated-pennsylvanians-now-have-to-pay-150-to-read-we-should-all-be-outraged/2018/10/11/51f548b8-cbd9-11e8-a85c-0bbe30c19e8f_story.html 2369 comments
- The Cost of Reading in Prison: In West Virginia it’s 5 cents a minute | Book Patrol http://bookpatrol.net/the-cost-of-reading-in-prision-in-west-virginia-its-5-cents-a-minute/ 1432 comments
- 10 Benefits of Reading: Why You Should Read Every Day - LifeHack http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/10-benefits-reading-why-you-should-read-everyday.html 536 comments
- Taking From The Vulnerable: JPay, States Charge Incarcerated For Free Ebooks https://bookriot.com/2019/12/05/jpay-project-gutenberg/ 401 comments
- Whither Eucalyptus? - Jamie Montgomerieâs World Wide Web Log http://www.blog.montgomerie.net/whither-eucalyptus 375 comments
- GitHub - auctors/free-lunch: A curated list of free Windows software, online services and resources. Feel free to contribute! https://github.com/auctors/free-lunch 216 comments
- Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly - by Adam Mastroianni https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly 146 comments
- GitHub - mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites: A list of awesome lightweight websites without all the bloat https://github.com/mdibaiee/awesome-lite-websites 137 comments
- West Virginia Inmates Will Be Charged by the Minute to Read E-Books on Tablets https://reason.com/2019/11/22/west-virginia-inmates-will-be-charged-by-the-minute-to-read-e-books-on-tablets/ 127 comments
- Build UNIX, not Uber | thesephist.com https://thesephist.com/posts/legacy/ 120 comments
- eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed | University Library | University of Adelaide http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controversy/chapter3.html 106 comments
- Index 1,600,000,000 Keys with Automata and Rust - Andrew Gallant's Blog https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/ 93 comments
- Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/ 86 comments
- eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed | University Library | University of Adelaide http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79n/ 76 comments
- eBooks@Adelaide has now officially closed | University Library | University of Adelaide http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/pessimism/chapter6.html 70 comments
- How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-youtube-are-fueling-the-next-frontier-of-password-cracking 64 comments
- How Standard Ebooks serves millions of requests per month with a 2GB VPS; or, a paean to the classic web - Alex Cabal https://alexcabal.com/posts/standard-ebooks-and-classic-web-tech 63 comments
- A look at VDO, the new Linux compression layer https://www.redhat.com/de/blog/look-vdo-new-linux-compression-layer 63 comments
- Authors are resisting AI with petitions and lawsuits. But they have an advantage: we read to form relationships with writers https://theconversation.com/authors-are-resisting-ai-with-petitions-and-lawsuits-but-they-have-an-advantage-we-read-to-form-relationships-with-writers-208046 48 comments