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American Libraries
Colorful Favorites Goody Two-Shoes (details | read it) Publisher's chromolithographed pictorial wrappers c1888 Caw caw; or, the chronicle of crows (details | read it) The house that Jack built, a game of forfeits : to which is added, The entertaining fable of "The Magpie" (details | read it)...
1,001,787 items
Canadian Libraries
200,000th Canadian Text! Songs of a Sourdough By Robert W. Service (details | pdf) Internet Archive Canada has reached a milestone, in scanning its 200,000th book! We want to thank everyone involved, who have made Internet Archive Canada a success here in Toronto First and foremost, the...
201,663 items
Universal Library
The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning...
31,383 items
Project Gutenberg
Books of Interest Alice Underground: being a facimile of the original book later developed into Alice in Wonderland (1882) (details | read it) The Dance (by An Antiquary): Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D. (details | read it) Gulliver's Travels (details |...
20,377 items
Children's Library
Books of Interest Abroad (1882) (details | read it) What the moon saw : and other tales (1866) (details | read it) The crooked man and other rhymes (between 1851 and 1870) (details | read it) Carlo, or, Kindness rewarded (ca. 1870?) (details | read it) Jack and Jill and old Dame...
3,322 items
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions joined together to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. They are developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective...
34,423 items
Additional Collections
Additional collections of scanned books, articles, and other texts (usually organized by topic) are presented here.
51,753 items