adamrice / #library

https://annas-archive.org/

"The largest truly open library in human history. We mirror Sci-Hub and LibGen. We scrape and open-source Z-Lib, DuXiu, and more. 37,668,190 books, 105,786,988 papers — preserved forever."

http://www.panix.com/~footage/harpers.pdf

Harper's article on the Prelinger Library (which is online after all). Parts of this read like something out of a David Foster Wallace story.

http://home.earthlink.net/~alysons/library.html

Harper's ran an article on the Prelinger Library about a year ago, which I just read. I'd heard of the Prelinger Archive before, but never imagined it was the work of a couple of countercultural autodidacts. Fascinating

http://openlibrary.org/

sort of like the IMDB for books