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  2. Project Gutenberg - Wikipedia

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    Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books or individual stories in the ...

  3. Open Library - Wikipedia

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    Open Library is an online project intended to create "one web page for every book ever published". Created by Aaron Swartz , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brewster Kahle , [ 5 ] Alexis Rossi, [ 6 ] Anand Chitipothu, [ 6 ] and Rebecca Hargrave Malamud , [ 6 ] Open Library is a project of the Internet Archive , a nonprofit organization .

  4. Inventory (library and archive) - Wikipedia

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    Random sampling of library collections can give a quick and clear assessment measure of a collection—whether the books are present, and whether those books present are in good physical condition. In 1982, the California State University libraries, suggested inventory procedures to insure that the 19 campus collections were secure and intact.

  5. Google Books - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft funded the scanning of 300,000 books to create Live Search Books in late 2006. It ran until May 2008, when the project was abandoned [135] and the books were made freely available on the Internet Archive. [136] The National Digital Library of India (NDLI) is a project under Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. The objective ...

  6. Internet Archive - Wikipedia

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    The Internet Archive is an American non-profit organization founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle that runs a digital library website, archive.org. [2] [3] [4] It provides free access to collections of digitized media including websites, software applications, music, audiovisual, and print materials. The Archive also advocates a free and open ...

  7. Z-Library - Wikipedia

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    Z-Library (abbreviated as z-lib, formerly BookFinder) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic texts and general-interest books. It began as a mirror of Library Genesis , but has expanded dramatically.

  8. Michael S. Hart - Wikipedia

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    Hart devoted his life after founding PG in 1971 to digitizing and distributing literature from works in the public domain with free and expired copyrights. The first e-books [5] [9] were typed in plain text format [6] [7] and published as text files; other formats were made available later. Hart typed most of the early e-books himself; later ...

  9. The History of the Runestaff - Wikipedia

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    The "terrifying ancient gods of Granbretan who were said to have ruled the land before the Tragic Millennium" are based on The Beatles: Jhone, Jhorg, Phowl and Rhunga.. Yet other gods from the "tragic millennium" are based on 20th Century British Prime Ministers Chirshil, the Howling God (Winston Churchill) and Aral Vilsn, the Roaring God (Harold Wilson), Supreme God) or writers: Bjrin Adass ...