I downloaded as much as I could one or two years ago.

They're up to about 882,000 now, maybe half Russian, half English. How newly registered is this incarnation, OP?Ībout the size of the files: Library Genesis has torrent files available for all its books. I distinctly remember seeing this site come up as an alternative when libgen went down (it seems to be back up now). Open Library: More than one million e-books of classic literature to download.I'm 90% sure this database borrows heavily from the Library Genesis, or maybe you'd call it a fork. Internet Archive: The largest digital library for downloading e-books and audio-books for free.Ĩ. More than 100,000 books for consultation, download or on-line purchase.ħ. E-books, magazines, academic essays, software, music and radio.Ħ. An immense collection of books for consultation, including fiction, essay and poetry.ĥ. More than 33,000 e-books to read and download.Ĥ. A source for manuscripts, rare books, films, maps and more in multilingual format.Ģ. In no particular order, we recommend the following eight:ġ. The majority are invaluable sources of reference, but there are some, such as those listed below, that contain books, maps, films and audio-books that would be difficult to find in physical form. Thanks to the proliferation of the digitization of archives we now have hundreds of thousands of online libraries, and some of them are simply wonderful.

And although the book as an object remains unbeatable, when reading on a screen, a phone or a tablet we are simply repeating one of the most beautiful human activities: illuminating our brains with the glow of our gaze. It could be said that they are a phantom hideout so that books never disappear in the fog. Digital libraries are much more than easy access to literature and information, they are dwellings that expand our possibility to store books and read them under house arrest – or in the capricious territory that words demand.

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