To commemorate Banned Books Week, the always great Internet Archive has opened up access to 74 banned books. The collection features some serious pieces of literature (James Joyce’s Ulysses, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night, Huxley’s Brave New World, etc.); some traditional children’s classics (Winnie the Pooh); and some sinister books of unquestionable historical importance (Mein Kampf). These books can be downloaded in multiple digital formats, including sometimes ePub and Kindle formats. This gives you the ability to read the the works on the Kindle, iPad, Nook and other mainstream ebook readers. (See note below.) But the old fashioned computer will also do the job.
Censorship remains a serious problem in the US and beyond. The American Library Association recorded 460 attempts in 2009 to restrict books in US schools and libraries. But they estimate that this represents only 20–25% of actual attempts to censor. All of this censorship is neatly (and rather specifically) tracked on Google Maps.
NOTE: Please see our previous post describing how to add files to the Kindle. Meanwhile this page describes how to transfer ePub files to the iPad.
Where’s the link to the collection?
Sorry about that. I added it in the post. But it also here:
http://www.archive.org/details/bannedbooks
Cheers,
Dan
are they available for free indefinitely or is there a time limit related to Banned Books Week’s dates?
I think culture is also this: having masterpieces available to everybody at no cost.
This doesn’t mean you don’t always have to pay for culture (this discussion will take a lot of time), but a basic layer of commonly intended masterpieces should be available for free.
I have Kindle for the iPhone. I also have iBooks. What’s the easiest way to get some of these books from their download links onto my iPhone for future reading?
Most of these books are also available through LibriVox. So the question of large body of literature being available at no cost to the masses…solved. Now, how do we make sure the masses know where to find these works? Share the links every chance you get.
Winnie the Pooh for Kindle says “Not available due to issues with the item’s content”.
Oh, yeah, seditious indeed. I grew up reading that book, it’s amazing I’m not a commie pinko revolutionary.
Please.
The Winnie The pooh ebook from archive.org disabled, maybe by google ebooks I don’t no, no freedom on the web maybe, you get this message on access their ebook page, and removed from search you can find it by searching winnie the pooh and archive.org
Item not available
The item is not available due to issues with the item’s content.
http://www.archive.org/details/winniethepooh01miln
it’s funny, since apple gives it away for free in color with DRM ebook junk, on ipod touch or ipod ebooks app. but a non-color, yellowed pages, version looks kind of old, you can’t even access it, of course I downloaded it already, before they disabled it, it’s only bad for new web users maybe, it’s not like they even correct all the spelling errors this ebook has in it, it’s sad, that they do this to old books, no wonder people use torrent sites, you the stuff you have to put up with, the BS they do, only so google ebooks,or others that put the crappy google logo all over their ebooks, talk about stuff the normal users wish they would not do etc..etc..
Oh, yeah, seditious indeed. I grew up reading that book, it’s amazing I’m not a commie pinko revolutionary.
if the book is pdf format,we can use anybizsoft pdf converter to convert it.
I notice the link now says 68 books. I wonder if 6 of them had their bans lifted.
What about Google Play bookstore? None of these books are free there, unfortunately.
These banned books of our time and history need to be made available to the public so I thank the people working hard to make it possible for us who read seeing as the newer generation is brain washed by electronic devices I think it most important that reading be a major part of today’s scociety and also for fact of reason on the importance of literatures that could possibly illuminate history and other cultural importances that reveal and reflect the past so thank you to those of us out there who feel reading material is important to our scociety
Thank you so much for all you have done here. I am hoping someone might reply to my experience with “Howl”. Even if there is no response, I again thank you for your involvement in such a worthy project as this.
Hi
under the link https://archive.org/details/books?query=erotica&sin=&sort=-week&page=3
you’ll find many erotic books. But you’re getting only a limited preview, no free downloading.