Wow! Tonnes of Free Books!
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public. Its mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge.
The Internet Archive began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today they have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and work with 625+ libraries and other partners through their Archive-It program to identify important web pages. Today their archive contains:
475 billion web pages
28 million books and texts
14 million audio recordings (including 220,000 live concerts)
6 million videos (including 2 million Television News programs)
3.5 million images
580,000 software programs
Who Can Use The Internet Archive?
Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive. They work with thousands of partners globally to save copies of their work into special collections.
Because they are a library, they pay special attention to books. Not everyone has access to a public or academic library with a good collection, so to provide universal access it is important to provide digital versions of books.
You can find out more about the Internet Archive at https://archive.org/about/
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