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Free Ebook Foundation

@FreeEbookFound

the Free Ebook Foundation is the charitable, non-profit home of @unglueit and Free-Programming-Books. Look for us @EbookFoundation@digipres.club

Joined November 2018
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Free Ebook Foundation (@[email protected])

39 Posts, 64 Following, 614 Followers · We create, maintain, and enhance systems that support public domain and free licensed ebooks for the benefit of all. We are a 501(c)3 charitable non-profit...

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Introducing Free-Programming-Ebooks SEARCH - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundation/6…
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67,000 Public Domain, 100,000 OA Ebooks, 200,000 Stars, 1 Mission - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundation/6…
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Unglue.it@unglueit5 Jan 2022
100,000 open access ebooks! blog.unglue.it/2022/01/05/10… #openaccess
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Campaign success, with help from our Monographs Fund. Not too late to pitch in! unglue.it/about/funds/#monog…
Unglue.it (@unglueit) profile pictureUnglue.it@unglueit17 Sep 2021
3 days left to support #openaccess by ungluing Librarian Mark Bilby's "As the Bandit I will Confess You" . unglue.it/work/482690/ Support is up to 44%.
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Unglue.it@unglueit18 Sep 2021
2 days left, and it's reached 50% of its goal!
Unglue.it (@unglueit) profile pictureUnglue.it@unglueit17 Sep 2021
3 days left to support #openaccess by ungluing Librarian Mark Bilby's "As the Bandit I will Confess You" . unglue.it/work/482690/ Support is up to 44%.
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Richard Poynder@RickyPo4 Jul 2021
The Ebook Turns 50; FEF Monographs Fund. blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/th… via @wordpressdotcom
The Ebook Turns 50; FEF Monographs Fund.

The Ebook Turns 50; FEF Monographs Fund.

On July 4, 1971, Michael Hart made the text of the Declaration of Independence available on the arpanet (which is now the Internet). Although books in digital form certainly existed before that, ma…

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On its 50th birthday, a bit about the political origins of the Ebook. go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2…
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A report from @gluejar of @FreeEbookFound about their 2020: - 3,770 links to free books, 1,254 free courses - books in 35 spoken languages & courses in 20 - their repo on @github has 170,459 stars, 4th of all repos on Github & up 26% from 2019 👏👏👏 github.com/EbookFoundation/f…
State of the Repo 2021 · Issue #5257 · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

State of the Repo 2021 · Issue #5257 · EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

The free-programming-books repo on GitHub grew significantly in 2020. As of January 12, 2021, it has 170,459 stars, fourth most of all repos on Github and up 26% from last year. The repo has been f...

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Our president has some posts on OA for backlist books: Fund the All-Stars, not the Discount Rack! go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2… go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2…
Great list! (Ours would reverse the order, of course.)
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6. You-Dont-Know-JS : github.com/getify/You-Dont-K… 7. Front-End-Checklist : github.com/thedaviddias/Fron… 8. Javascript-Questions : github.com/lydiahallie/javas… 9. Clean-Code-Javascript : github.com/ryanmcdermott/cle… 10. free-programming-books : github.com/EbookFoundation/f…
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CodersRank@CodersRank23 Dec 2020
Top repositories based on the number of ⭐s on @GitHub in 2020! Big Congrats to the makers & everyone who contributed! 🎉 🌟labuladong 🌟@StartupNextDoor 🌟@kamranahmedse 🌟@donne_martin 🌟@FreeEbookFound / @gluejar See more stats from this year: bit.ly/2WlLG8M
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338 developers helped us curate free-programming-books - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundation/3…
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Our "Free-Programming-Books" repo on GitHub received 1,314 @Hacktoberfest PRs and merged 559 (39%) of them (merges from 304 individuals)! Thank you to @digitalocean, @intel, @ThePracticalDev and 304 amazing open-source enthusiasts!
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Jack Dolgin@jbdolg27 Aug 2020
27/ I think my new favorite GitHub account belongs to @FreeEbookFound, run by @gluejar et al. They have over a 100 science books and 2,000 coding/math books that are free!
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60,000 ebooks on a Flash Drive? mailchi.mp/ebookfoundation/o…
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60,000 Ebooks on a Flash Drive? - mailchi.mp/ebookfoundation/o…
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Interesting use of free ebooks: @bilinualcom is making ebooks with multilingual annotations!
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Eric Hellman@gluejar3 Jun 2020
If you're in Italy, blocked from using project Gutenberg, you may be interested to know that the books are also on GitHub: gitenberg.org

Gitenberg Project - Gitenberg project

Gitenberg is a collaborative, open-source community that curates and publishes highly usable, attractive ebooks and interesting articles in the public domain. All books are free to use by anyone for...

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Eric Hellman@gluejar3 Jun 2020
Italy blocks Project Gutenberg: techdirt.com/articles/202005…
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