Public-domain books, mirrored here, readable by everyone — including eyes-free.

The library is a growing local collection of public-domain books — works whose copyrights have expired and are free for anyone to keep, copy, and share. We host the files on this server rather than linking out, so a book you find here stays here.

The shelves — 6,804 books

Agriculture 209 books The science of the soil — crop rotation, drainage, fertilisers, and husbandry, from Roman treatises to experiment-station bulletins. Biochemistry 27 books Where chemistry meets the cell — fermentations, proteins, and the machinery of life at the molecular level. Biology 384 books Field guides, laboratory manuals, and the great naturalists — botany, zoology, bacteriology, and the living world observed up close. Chemistry 287 books Alembics to atoms — the laboratory shelf: analysis, synthesis, and the elements as they were first understood. Earth 679 books Geology, volcanoes, glaciers, and the deep past — Lyell, Agassiz, and the first attempts to read the planet's own archive. Engineering & Technology 999 books Steam engines, lathes, telegraphs, aeroplanes, fireworks and everything in between — the workshop shelf, 1700s to early 1900s. Ethics 274 books Right and wrong, argued plainly — moral treatises, conduct of life, and two thousand years of asking how we ought to live. Farming 128 books The working end of agriculture — soil, stock, machinery, and the practical manuals that fed the modern world. Mathematics 109 books Mental arithmetic to quaternions — Dudeney's puzzles, De Morgan's paradoxes, Carroll's tangled tale, and a century of textbooks. Philosophy 3,132 books From Plato to pragmatism in dozens of languages — the biggest shelf in the library, three thousand works of people thinking. Physics 576 books From Galileo's discourse to radio-activity — mechanics, optics, electricity, astronomy, and the atom, in the words of the people who found them.

Every book, three ways