YSK that the Internet Archive has digitized over 3.8 million books and counting, and all of them can be borrowed for free

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  • openlibrary

    One webpage for every book ever published!

    Also, https://openlibrary.org/

  • bypass-paywalls-chrome

    Bypass Paywalls web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.

    Get past pay walls https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Nobody.live

    View twitch streamers with zero viewers at nobody.live

  • ytdl-patched

    yt-dlp fork with some more features

  • EverythingToolbar

    Discontinued Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar] (by stnkl)

    Improved windows search. These two go hand in hand, and are required for anyone using Windows https://www.voidtools.com/ https://github.com/stnkl/EverythingToolbar

  • dupeguru

    Find duplicate files

  • jak-project

    Reviving the language that brought us the Jak & Daxter Series

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  • czkawka

    Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

  • web

    The source code for the Standard Ebooks website. (by standardebooks)

    Adding onto this, I also learned about Standard Ebooks a couple months back, which also carries public domain books, but "cleans up" those books to look nice and consistent on modern e-readers.

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