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"[2][3] It provides permanent storage of and free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books. As of October 2012, its collection topped 10 petabytes.[4][5] In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating for a free and open Internet. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. The Archive is a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium.[10] This non-profit digital library was officially designated as a library by the State of California in 2007.[11] History[edit] According to its website: World Wide Web archiving[edit]

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Bookstacks Free Online Books. DailyLit. FullBooks.com - Thousands of Full-Text Free Books. 20+ Places for Public Domain E-Books. Nothing beats holding an actual book in your hand, but sometimes it's nice to be able to download it and take it with you.

20+ Places for Public Domain E-Books

Especially if it's completely legal. That's why we've put together this list of 20+ sources for e-books for your use.And don’t forget to check out our new post where you can suggest the subjects of future toolboxes! This one was a suggestion from there! Downloadable AskSam.com/ebooks/ - A small selection of classic texts like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts. Baen Free Library - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels, mostly the first in an ongoing series to get you hungry for more.

BookRags.com - Small selection of free choices, and thousands more for premium members. Gutenberg.org - The first project for converting public domain works into a digital format; their selection now numbers over 5,000. ManyBooks.net - A large selection of books to be read on your PDA, cellphone, iPod, iPhone and more. HTML Only See also: Books by Title: Page by Page Books. Read Free Books Online! 1920s Magazine Information. Having pored over literally thousands of 1920s magazines in search of historic articles, the crew at OldMagazineArticles.com stands prepared to let you in on what we have learned about these magazines and what they say about the society that spawned them.

1920s Magazine Information

One of the most startling omissions we never expected was the lack of articles referring to the influenza pandemic of 1918, which caused the deaths of some 675,000 Americans and 50,000,000 people worldwide. It filled the hospitals, challenged the medical and funerary communities, forced face masks onto hundreds of thousands of people and changed the manner of living for millions as they attempted to avoid the disease; did the magazines make mention of this catastrophe? You bet they didn't. Do we know why? We sure don't. The fall from grace that magazine religion editors suffered seemed to have happened at an even quicker pace.

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