Following up on our item posted on November 27, where we talked about the online repository of the very influential Popular Electronics magazine, today we take a look at three other repositories that store a large chunk of the history of science and technology… Also comics!
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RACHEL (Remote Areas Community Hotspots for Education and Learning) is a Linux distro designed to be used with a Raspberry Pi. The Pi is then used as a server in computer classrooms with bad or no Internet connections. Although RACHEL is very similar to the stock Raspbian distribution, it also sets up a web server and…
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The Folger Shakespeare Library is sharing tens of thousands of high resolution images on their site covering book covers, inside pages from original volumes, manuscripts, engravings, and costumes. The detailed and high quality photos and scans are free for use for any purpose, as long as you attribute the Library. [Show slideshow] The only problem…
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OpenCulture.com, apart from serving up engrossing daily articles and videos on art, literature, and culture in general; contains within its sidebars a true treasure trove of links to free books, films, courses, language lessons, and lectures. WARNING: Visiting this site can seriously impair your work productivity. Do you run a site like OpenCulture.com and would…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York is creating an ever expanding library of art books that users can freely read online and, in many cases, download as high quality PDFs for reading offline. The books are lavishly illustrated, written by top experts in the field, and cover all eras, styles and geographic regions.…
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Carlos BenÃtez over at etnassoft has put together a comprehensive collection of mostly open and free books that you can browse and download for free. He has collected in one easily searchable and browsable site over 2500 books, with titles on technical issues, programming, computer administration, design and so on. The site also includes comics,…
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