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The Internet Sacred Text Archive is a Santa Cruz, California based website dedicated to the preservation of electronic public domain texts, specifically those with significant cultural value.  https://www.sacred-texts.com/

HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. https://www.hathitrust.org/

Google Books Search the world’s most comprehensive index of full-text books. https://books.google.com/

Northern Illinois University‘s Digital Library (NIUDL) consists of unique digital collections. https://digital.lib.niu.edu/ https://digital.lib.niu.edu/islandora/object/niu-amarch%3Acollection

Library of Congress > Digital Collections Contains 17 million catalog records for books, serials, manuscripts, maps, music, recordings, images, and electronic resources in the Library of Congress collections. https://www.loc.gov/collections/ https://catalog.loc.gov/

Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published https://openlibrary.org/

Free eBooks – Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/

DIGITAL COLLECTIONS University of South Carolina Libraries https://digital.library.sc.edu/ Special collections at University Libraries offer students and scholars a rich, hands-on research and learning experience. https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/university_libraries/browse/index.php

The South Carolina Digital Library provides free access to historic materials, such as photographs, manuscripts, journals, books, oral histories, objects, etc. illustrating the history and culture of South Carolina from over 40 cultural heritage institutions across the state. Over 200,000 items have been added so far. https://scmemory.org/

Books and Magazines for Visually Impaired https://www.benicialibrary.org/ebooks/disabled

Bookshare makes reading easier. People with dyslexia, blindness, cerebral palsy, and other reading barriers can customize their experience to suit their learning style and find virtually any book they need for school, work, or the joy of reading. https://www.bookshare.org/cms/

Over 1 Million Digital Books Now Available Free to the Blind and Print-Disabled https://blog.archive.org/2010/05/06/over-1-million-digital-books-now-available-free-to-the-blind-and-print-disabled/

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. https://archive.org/index.php

Ancestor Hunters! https://www.theancestorhunt.com/

U.S. Capitol https://www.congress.gov/ http://www.visitthecapitol.gov/

How to make a Face Mask https://www.deaconess.com/How-to-make-a-Face-Mask