I was led to the Internet Archive (archive.org) , which you may know as the “Way Back Machine”, by this blog post UsableMarkets - Graphic Presentation, the book (the blog post and referenced book are interesting… Funny how we can learn better PowerPoint/graphing from a time before computers…) today.
I didn’t realize that so many free eBooks could be found here.
Let’s start with looking at a book’s landing page. Check out the Graphic Presentation book, Internet Archive - Graphic presentation (1939)
On the left, do you see all the different formats you can get this book in? Online, PDF, Text, Kindle, EPub and more.
Okay, that’s pretty cool. Now we follow the breadcrumbs back to the American Libraries
Let me call out a number for you…
That’s eBooks available there…
You can browse by Library/Collection, Title or Author
In my brief very unscientific spot checking, this million plus entries all seem to actually be eBooks in one form or an other. And that’s just in the American category…
Following the breadcrumb trail back another step…
Yep, that’s 2.2 million eBooks! Wow…
That should be enough to keep you busy for a while. :)
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