Aristotle The Geek

Project Gutenberg is now probably well known to most internet users. But there exists another archive that provides, among other things, scanned copies of millions of books – the Internet Archive (IA), which also hosts the Wayback Machine.

A majority of these books are available as a result of agreements with various university libraries under which books that are no longer covered by copyright are digitized. While IA’s search engine is good enough, the Open Library (check scanned books to avoid “in copyright” listings from appearing) seems to provide better information and deep links. From fiction to religion to philosophy to science, it is a virtual treasure trove.