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author: reilly-smith
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title: 'WANTED: Open Libraries'
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date: '2017-02-16 00:15:00'
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cover: 'gutenberg-banner.jpg'
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It always bears repeating around here: LBRY’s destiny is nothing short of the most reliable and rich library on earth... despite the illegible abbreviation “LBRY.”
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To expedite the process, we have [an open bounty](https://lbry.io/bounty/publish-open-content) for the world’s free and digitized libraries in order to aggregate them onto one big (decentralized) shelf: LBRY’s network of gracious content hosts.
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One pierre1024, a member of the [LBRY Chat community](http://chat.lbry.io/), has claimed quite a big fish…
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Project Gutenberg is an open project that has digitized 54,000 free pdf, epub and Kindle books.
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Hundreds of historical archives are now available on LBRY, including:
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- The Economic Consequences of the Peace by Keynes
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- A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey
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- Journal of a Voyage to Brazil by Callcott
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- How Jerusalem Was Won by W. T. Massey
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- Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
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The project was started by the late Michael Hart in 1971 with the digitization of the US Declaration of Independence. Make a donation [to Project Gutenberg here](https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Needs_Your_Donation), and enjoy thousands of books now available on LBRY.
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**Not on LBRY yet?** [Download here](https://lbry.io/get). Have a big library bounty to claim? Email reilly@lbry.io and take all the glory.
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