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Project Gutenberg

The text of 76,015 books in the reader was transcribed and proofread by Project Gutenberg's volunteers from editions that are in the public domain in the United States. We remove Project Gutenberg's own header and license text and set each book out for reading here; the words of the book are unchanged. Project Gutenberg does not require a credit; we name it here because its volunteers did the work. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. gutenberg.org

Library of Congress

17,978 scanned books come from the Library of Congress collection Selected Digitized Books, which states that its books are in the public domain and free to use and reuse. Credit: Library of Congress. The machine-read text was taken from the Common Pile collection, licensed CC BY 4.0. loc.gov

Wikisource

15,753 books were transcribed by Wikisource contributors. The books are in the public domain or under the free license shown on their page; the transcriptions are licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, and each page links the Wikisource page and its list of contributors. wikisource.org

Internet Archive

15,552 scanned books come from public-domain scans held by the Internet Archive. Each page links the scan. Most recordings on our listening pages also play from the Internet Archive's servers. archive.org

British Library

10,206 scanned books come from the British Library's Digitised Books collection, published under the Public Domain Mark 1.0. bl.uk

OAPEN and DOAB

3,391 books come from the OAPEN Library and 169 from the Directory of Open Access Books. These are open-access academic books. Each is used under the Creative Commons license its publisher chose; the license and the publisher's credit are shown on the book's page. Books under a "no derivatives" license are shown with their words unchanged. oapen.org · doabooks.org

Wolne Lektury

One Polish book and 1,548 Polish recordings come from the Wolne Lektury library of the Modern Poland Foundation, under the Free Art License 1.3 or CC BY-SA 3.0. Each page credits Wolne Lektury, and each recording names its reader. wolnelektury.pl

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LibriVox

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Project Gutenberg audio

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Audiocité

2 listening pages play recordings that their readers shared on Audiocité. Each page credits Audiocité and the reader, shows the license and links the recording. audiocite.net

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Wikipedia

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Wikidata

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Courses

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The Open University (OpenLearn) and TU Delft OpenCourseWare

2 courses come from OpenLearn and 2 from TU Delft OpenCourseWare, each under the Creative Commons license named on its course page, with the same credit and the same limits. open.edu/openlearn · ocw.tudelft.nl

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