Open Culture VS Open Library

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Open Culture mentions (7)

• Recent cult escapee seeking reading lists

  Take a gander at openculture.com and coursera.org for free classes. Source: over 1 year ago

• Websites for knowledge expansion

  Https://openculture.com/ maybe? Has lots of (free) content and resources on a wide range of topics from literature to movies. Source: about 2 years ago

• What are some useful/cool websites that you check on regularly, that are not social media?

  Openculture.com has a dizzying amount of public domain/free stuff for perusing, whether books, movies, music, or even some college courses. Source: about 2 years ago

• Useful Links

  Open Culture scours the web for the best educational media. We find the free courses and audio books you need, the language lessons & educational videos you want, and plenty of enlightenment in between. Https://openculture.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• What useful unknown website do you wish more people knew about?

  Openculture.com Watch free movies! Learn languages! Take educational courses! All for free! Source: over 2 years ago

Open Library mentions (263)

• MLIS books available digitally?

  Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 5 months ago

• NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month

  Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• is there any way to read books for free?

  Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 6 months ago

• YSK: You can access many old and out of print hiking books from the Internet Archive's Open Library

  The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 6 months ago

• Searching for a pharmacy book

  I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 7 months ago