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Explore our curated collection of high-quality reading resources to build your Paper2Audio listening library. The sources below provide access to millions of public domain and open-access documents, ranging from historical archives and academic journals to international news reporting.

Books

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Project Gutenberg

Library of over 75,000 free ebooks, mostly public domain

Standard Ebooks

Smaller library of over 1,300 public domain ebooks with generally better formatting than Project Gutenberg

ManyBooks

Over 50,000 public domain and self-published ebooks

News & Articles

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The Conversation

News written for the public by academic experts

Dialogue Earth

Independent non-profit news source focusing on worldwide environmental and conservation topics

Global Voices

An international community of writers, bloggers, journalists and researchers reporting on global news.

ProPublica

Independent non-profit investigative journalism organization.

The New Humanitarian

Independent non-profit news agency focusing on humanitarian topics and stories from under-reported regions of the world.

Wikinews

A free-content news wiki with collaborative user-created news content.

Academic Papers

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arXiv

Open-access archive for over 2 million scholarly scientific articles

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Open-access directory of over 22,000 journals and 12 million articles in 91 languages

PubMed

Archive of biomedical and life science articles part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Libraries & Archives

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Digital Public Library of America

Large database of digital holdings of United States archives, libraries, museums and other institutions, mostly primary source texts.

Europeana

A web portal created by the European Union offering free access to over 53 million digitized cultural heritage items, including books and articles.

HathiTrust

A collaboration by academic and research libraries preserving over 19 million digitized items.

Library of Congress Chronicling America collection

Database with digitized copies of United States newspapers dating from 1770 to 1963 (use the "text" tab to find raw text versions).

Wikisource

Digital library of freely licensed or public domain primary source texts in a variety of languages

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