Places to get ebooks

Apart from your local library (for example Brisbane City Council free ebooks and audiobooks), here are some useful sites:

• Project Gutenberg -- the same guy that invented the movable type printing press also made this website for distributing books that are out of copyright, I guess.
• Standard EBooks -- beautifully formatted free ebooks.
• Open Library -- part of the Internet Archive. (which is great!)
• Google ebook store - access to the topselling free ebooks

There is a system called Library Genesis or LibGen, currently available at https://libgen.is/ which allows you to find ebooks. It's similar to sci-hub.

Free audio books at:

• http://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
• librivox
• https://audiobookreviews.com

And:

On iOS, for those of us addicted to convenience, the Oldio app provides free Audible-style listening to Librivo
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• "Non-resident" library cards - as a way to get access in overdrive to more collections.
• https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/EBook_Lending_Libraries#Widely_Accessible_Libraries_and_Subscription_Services

And another thing is the smithsonian open access:

• https://www.si.edu/openaccess

...where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian's images-right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections-with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian's 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo

(I'm not really sure where/how to catalog that? When will I need this? It has awesome old pictures, and machines and diagrams and drawings of animals and places and buildings...)

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