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A story from Vicki Tan on Medium
It describes that stack of unread books sitting on your nightstand, your desk, your floor… You know the ones — bought with the best intentions, filled with knowledge you genuinely want to absorb. But…
Californians have new access to 300,000 ebooks and audiobooks | KTVU FOX 2
Californians now have free access to 30,000 ebooks and audiobooks available from the California State Library's virtual bookshelf.
5 Books That Will Make You Smarter Than 97% Of People
And embrace effective lifelong learning
If You Only Read A Few Books In 2025, Read These
I can’t predict the future, so I don’t know what the year will bring, but I feel pretty confident in predicting that 2025 will be…
Want to read more books in 2025? This simple trick can help.
I tried it—and the results were fantastic.
Five Books That Offer Readers Intellectual Exercise - The Atlantic
Each of these titles exercises a different kind of reading muscle, so that you can choose the one that will push you most.
A Bookbinder Who Sets the Stage for Literary Revels
Dominic Riley has spent decades designing and creating new covers for special volumes, and teaching others how to do it, too.
The year is 2149 and…
Novelist Sean Michaels envisions what life will look like 125 years from now.
The Vital Necessity of Very Old Books (2023) | Hacker News
Philosophus Autodidactus | Hacker News
How to Live | Derek Sivers
The Best Book Ever Written | Hacker News
Libby - Welcome
All over the world, local libraries offer millions of ebooks and audiobooks. You can borrow them — for free, instantly — with a library card and Libby: the award-winning, much-loved app for libraries.
How to download ebooks from Library Genesis (libgen) for free
As a follow-up to my prior guide on how to use Sci-hub to download academic papers for free, here's a simple guide to use Library Gensis aka. Libgen. Library Genesis is another guerilla open access project, also run by people from the Russia-sphere. It's relatively easy to use. 1. Go to the Libg
Books — Stanford d.school
Books by the d.school designed for you. Our collection of books will help you adapt to change, see things in new ways, work well with others, and peer into our collective future. Boost your creativity, hone your design skills, and develop new mindsets for your work and life.
book notes | Derek Sivers
Zaum | Hacker News
Anna’s Archive
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Includes Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
archives.design
A curated, easier to browse graphic design repository for the Internet Archives
Five Books
If you're looking for the best books on any topic, Five Books has the world's largest collection of expert book recommendations.
Very Short Introductions - Oxford University Press
Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects - from Public Health to Buddhist Eth
Five Books: The best books on everything | Hacker News
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - LessWrong
For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming blog posts, Wikipedia articles, classic texts, podcast episodes, popular books, video lectures, peer-reviewed papers, Teac…
A visual book recommender
Recreating the used bookstore experience via contrastive learning, t-SNE, and 100M book reviews.
Open Library | Hacker News
Institute for the Future of the Book
Standard Ebooks
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.