Free ebooks until Aug 4 at World eBook Fair
If this is inappropriate to post, just let me know and I'll remove it (or a mod could delete it); I'm not sure of the protocols for posting lists of books I haven't read.
The World eBook Fair is offering a collection of over 2 million ebooks, mostly in PDF format, until August 4th. (Most, perhaps all, of these are available on their original sites; right now, World eBook Fair is hosting all of these. After Aug 4, they'll be scattered again.)
The following collections include many, sometimes all, authors of color:
Asian Classics Input Project (4,300 PDF and TXT eBooks, 412 images)
The mission of the Asian Classics Input Project is to save the disappearing books containing the great ideas of the Eastern half of humanity and then make these books and ideas accessible to the world at large.
BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network (1123 PDF eBooks)
BuddhaNet™ is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an online cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests.
e-Asia Collection (1,800 PDF and LIT eBooks)
By building a collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources, e-Asia strives to contribute to the research and scholarship of East Asia. While the e-Asia project is based largely on resources held at the University of Oregon Library, its purpose is neither to duplicate nor displace printed traditional materials. Rather, by providing searchable full text, the digitalization efforts of e-Asia represent a new tool aimed at facilitating the information-gathering process.
(Includes a great many books *about* East Asia by white people. Also includes a great many government documents and newspaper articles that don't normally appear in ebook collections.)
eBooksBrasil (413 PDF eBooks)
Observe o status de copyright do título. Os direitos da obra pertencem aos respectivos autores ou são de domínio público. Os direitos de tradução, aos tradutores ou aos Editores. Os direitos de edição às editoras. Caso houver, involuntariamente, a quebra de algum direito patrimonial, favor comunicar a livros@eBooksBrasil.org e à Editora.
Você acessa o site da Editora ou e-mail clicando no nome da Editora logo após o autor.
(Obviously, books are in Portugese.)
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (1510 PDF eDocuments)
ETANA has digitized, and continues to digitize texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to Ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders. While the new electronic editions we have produced are under copyright, the ETANA project chooses to make these freely available for non-commercial teaching and research purposes.
Classic Chinese Literature Collection (PGCC's 199 Classic Chinese Literature Collection)
(I couldn't get these to work. I don't know if that's because I don't have Asian language support on my computer, or there's something odd about the links.)
Himalayan Acadamy Sacred Hindu Literature Collection
World Public Library is very pleased to announce the arrival of the Sacred Hindu Literature Collection of the Himalayan Academy. The collection features seven of the most beautiful eBooks in our holdings.
(Online ebooks only; could be downloaded but would have to be assembled.)
Islamic eBook Collection (78 PDF eBooks)
This collection of Islamic religious books was compiled to help spread the wisdom of Islam to the world. Recently, world events have created a misperception regarding the true beliefs of the nation of Islam.
In combating terrorism and protecting society against its evil consequences, Islam is a trail-blazer. Through clear-cut limitations that must not be trespassed, Islam urges the protection of human life, honor, property, religion and intellect.
Japanese eBook Collection (4008 PDF eBooks)
The Japanese Classic Literature and Education Publications Collection contains several thousand of the great classic literature of Japan. The collection also contains selected editions of publications produced for the Board of Education of Japan.
(Scanned documents in Japanese.)
Logos Wordtheque-Word by word multilingual library (34,210 PDF eBooks)
Logos context search facility Wordtheque. The Wordtheque is a powerful interface with a massive database (currently 707.737.941 words) containing multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts.
Project Madura (242 HTML & PDF eBooks)
The project has managed to release more than 300 important Tamil texts so far without any funding from any agency, government or private. Project Madurai is a collection of ancient Tamil texts, out of print books, and contemporary authors. Government of Tamil Nadu brought the works of around 25 20th Century authors into the public domain including Bharathiyar, Bharathidasan, Kalki, Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram and others. And there were writers like Jeyakanthan and Vairamuthu who voluntarily gave permission to the project to convert some of their works into e-texts. Today, the project covers even the works of expatriate Tamil authors from places like Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and other countries.
(In Tamil)
Personal P.S. I'm willing to convert things from PDF to more adaptable ebook formats on request. I'm rather swamped this weekend (Azkatraz starts tomorrow), but otherwise enjoy doc conversion work. I only read English, which limits my potential ability to convert many of these. (I might be able to convert the Tamil documents to Word documents, but I certainly couldn't fix the formatting.)
The World eBook Fair is offering a collection of over 2 million ebooks, mostly in PDF format, until August 4th. (Most, perhaps all, of these are available on their original sites; right now, World eBook Fair is hosting all of these. After Aug 4, they'll be scattered again.)
The following collections include many, sometimes all, authors of color:
Asian Classics Input Project (4,300 PDF and TXT eBooks, 412 images)
The mission of the Asian Classics Input Project is to save the disappearing books containing the great ideas of the Eastern half of humanity and then make these books and ideas accessible to the world at large.
BuddhaNet: Buddhist Information and Education Network (1123 PDF eBooks)
BuddhaNet™ is the result of a vision to link up with the growing world-wide culture of people committed to the Buddha's teachings and lifestyle, as an online cyber sangha. In this way, an ancient tradition and the information superhighway will come together to create an electronic meeting place of shared concern and interests.
e-Asia Collection (1,800 PDF and LIT eBooks)
By building a collection of digitized e-books and a database of full text web resources, e-Asia strives to contribute to the research and scholarship of East Asia. While the e-Asia project is based largely on resources held at the University of Oregon Library, its purpose is neither to duplicate nor displace printed traditional materials. Rather, by providing searchable full text, the digitalization efforts of e-Asia represent a new tool aimed at facilitating the information-gathering process.
(Includes a great many books *about* East Asia by white people. Also includes a great many government documents and newspaper articles that don't normally appear in ebook collections.)
eBooksBrasil (413 PDF eBooks)
Observe o status de copyright do título. Os direitos da obra pertencem aos respectivos autores ou são de domínio público. Os direitos de tradução, aos tradutores ou aos Editores. Os direitos de edição às editoras. Caso houver, involuntariamente, a quebra de algum direito patrimonial, favor comunicar a livros@eBooksBrasil.org e à Editora.
Você acessa o site da Editora ou e-mail clicando no nome da Editora logo após o autor.
(Obviously, books are in Portugese.)
ETANA: Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (1510 PDF eDocuments)
ETANA has digitized, and continues to digitize texts selected as valuable for teaching and research relating to Ancient Near Eastern studies. We have selected primarily editions that are outside of copyright, or with the permission of copyright holders. While the new electronic editions we have produced are under copyright, the ETANA project chooses to make these freely available for non-commercial teaching and research purposes.
Classic Chinese Literature Collection (PGCC's 199 Classic Chinese Literature Collection)
(I couldn't get these to work. I don't know if that's because I don't have Asian language support on my computer, or there's something odd about the links.)
Himalayan Acadamy Sacred Hindu Literature Collection
World Public Library is very pleased to announce the arrival of the Sacred Hindu Literature Collection of the Himalayan Academy. The collection features seven of the most beautiful eBooks in our holdings.
(Online ebooks only; could be downloaded but would have to be assembled.)
Islamic eBook Collection (78 PDF eBooks)
This collection of Islamic religious books was compiled to help spread the wisdom of Islam to the world. Recently, world events have created a misperception regarding the true beliefs of the nation of Islam.
In combating terrorism and protecting society against its evil consequences, Islam is a trail-blazer. Through clear-cut limitations that must not be trespassed, Islam urges the protection of human life, honor, property, religion and intellect.
Japanese eBook Collection (4008 PDF eBooks)
The Japanese Classic Literature and Education Publications Collection contains several thousand of the great classic literature of Japan. The collection also contains selected editions of publications produced for the Board of Education of Japan.
(Scanned documents in Japanese.)
Logos Wordtheque-Word by word multilingual library (34,210 PDF eBooks)
Logos context search facility Wordtheque. The Wordtheque is a powerful interface with a massive database (currently 707.737.941 words) containing multilingual novels, technical literature and translated texts.
Project Madura (242 HTML & PDF eBooks)
The project has managed to release more than 300 important Tamil texts so far without any funding from any agency, government or private. Project Madurai is a collection of ancient Tamil texts, out of print books, and contemporary authors. Government of Tamil Nadu brought the works of around 25 20th Century authors into the public domain including Bharathiyar, Bharathidasan, Kalki, Pattukottai Kalyanasundaram and others. And there were writers like Jeyakanthan and Vairamuthu who voluntarily gave permission to the project to convert some of their works into e-texts. Today, the project covers even the works of expatriate Tamil authors from places like Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka and other countries.
(In Tamil)
Personal P.S. I'm willing to convert things from PDF to more adaptable ebook formats on request. I'm rather swamped this weekend (Azkatraz starts tomorrow), but otherwise enjoy doc conversion work. I only read English, which limits my potential ability to convert many of these. (I might be able to convert the Tamil documents to Word documents, but I certainly couldn't fix the formatting.)