Finding books on the Internet

Miscellaneous General
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Searching here and there for resources, it makes you appreciate any book available online, so you don’t have to lose time going into a library. For many older books, not even a large library may help.

While far from perfect, online books are immediately accessible and ready to be quoted - if you can find them. Here are a few useful links to search online books at, feel free to add more!

Gutenberg.org, the oldest digital library with many books in the public domain, often old books and quite a few economical texts too.

The Internet Archive contains huge amounts of information, little of it useful… and then it can surprise with the oddest finds.

The Open Library boasts of having many books as well. Haven’t had any experience with it yet, but it looks hopeful.

Google Books have often only incomplete versions, but it should do for most quoting.

Last but not least, Mises.org has many Austrian and related books too!

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http://www.freebookspot.org/ npt so much for economics, but for other things, like technology etc.

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www.scribd.com has books also.

And of course eMule is always a decent shot too.

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Nothing can beat www.gigapedia.com

But you may have to take some pain to create an account there.

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Probably the best online collection of libertarian authors [ an some nasty conservatives ]

The Online Library of Liberty by the Liberty Fund

I recommend the French Industrialists.

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A little-known, but great book is “Complete Liberty: The Rise of Voluntary America.” You can purchase it or read the entire PD for free here → http://completeliberty.com/

I would also suggest Stephen Molyneaux’s books which you can purchase, read the PDF or listen to → http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/

Finally, while not 100% applicable to most here, “The Rape of The Constitution” can bu purchased or freely read in PDF format → http://www.rapeoftheconstitution.com/

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Page with the link at http://www.thementalmilitia.com/wiki/FreeBooks

Internet Archive Books (1,468,144 Scans/texts-- US, Canadian Libs, Open Source, G-berg, &c)
Gutenberg (>30,000 text/html)
Wikisource (121,071 texts Authors)
Wikibooks (open-content textbooks, ~27,000 modules)
U Penn Books (search multiple lists, >25,000)
Arthur’s Classic Novels (4,000 html texts)

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
American Deception.com (What the liars don’t tell you.)
Baen Sci-Fi (F’rinstance Retief!)
The 10 Bushcraft Books (by Richard Harry Graves, 1898-1971)
Farming Journey to Forever’s Farm Library
Foundation for Economic Education (economics and liberty books FEE book list)
Econ Lib (economics, markets, and liberty)
Fair Use Repository (books & essays, Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book)
Hesperian (Health & Empowerment, all their books)
The Lawful Path (Essays, Government, Reference, Security, Tactics)
Liberty Fund (100s about individual liberty, limited gov’t, and the free market)
Ludwig von Mises Institute Books (~180 great books on econ, history, liberty)
NetCtr.com (Modern and older works on current events, history, etc.)
Old and dusty books
Yamaguchy (mostly 1800s politics, econ, liberty with some more current)
Field Manuals, TMs, &c (Military How-To’s, equipment use)
More Field Manuals

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Thanks Junker. Here is a slightly formatted list for those who couldn’t read the original:

  • Page with the link at http://www.thementalmilitia.com/wiki/
  • FreeBooks Internet Archive Books (1,468,144 Scans/texts-- US, Canadian Libs, Open Source, G-berg, &c)
  • Gutenberg (>30,000 text/html)
  • Wikisource (121,071 texts Authors)
  • Wikibooks (open-content textbooks, ~27,000 modules)
  • U Penn Books (search multiple lists, >25,000)
  • Arthur’s Classic Novels (4,000 html texts)
  • The Internet History Sourcebooks Project
  • American Deception.com (What the liars don’t tell you.)
  • Baen Sci-Fi (F’rinstance Retief!)
  • The 10 Bushcraft Books (by Richard Harry Graves, 1898-1971)
  • Farming Journey to Forever’s Farm Library
  • Foundation for Economic Education (economics and liberty books FEE book list)
  • Econ Lib (economics, markets, and liberty)
  • Fair Use Repository (books & essays, Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book)
  • Hesperian (Health & Empowerment, all their books)
  • The Lawful Path (Essays, Government, Reference, Security, Tactics)
  • Liberty Fund (100s about individual liberty, limited gov’t, and the free market)
  • Ludwig von Mises Institute Books (~180 great books on econ, history, liberty)
  • NetCtr.com (Modern and older works on current events, history, etc.)
  • Old and dusty books Yamaguchy (mostly 1800s politics, econ, liberty with some more current)
  • Field Manuals, TMs, &c (Military How-To’s, equipment use)
  • More Field Manuals
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And thank you, Peter. I didn’t figure out how to format.
My page breaks disappeared.

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Big thanks for all the links! I’ve taken those more about economical topics, and put them into a custom search engine. Yep, you can make those and it’s quite easy (thanks Google). Now I can research!

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“…a custom search engine.”

Big thanks back. I tested “anarchy” and “Free Trade”.
The result was much better than standard Google— not
so much “junk” to pass through. I bookmarked it, so
thanks again.