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The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries.  Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations.  It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.

The Internet Archive is a website containing around a million public domain ebooks created by scanning page images from books in various libraries.  Because of this the ebooks have pages that look like the books they came from, including illustrations and other page decorations.  It may be the best source of free books for younger readers, as well as for books in languages other than English.

This Activity will use the [http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php Advanced Search] capabilities of the Internet Archive website to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.

This Activity will use the [http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php Advanced Search] capabilities of the [http://www.archive.org/index.php Internet Archive website] to enable browsing the website's catalog, getting information on the books therein, and downloading these books to the Journal. Its user interface is similar to the offline catalog search of Read Etexts, but where that Activity is used for both getting books and reading them this one will concern itself only with getting the books, so they may be read with the Read Activity.

== Current Features ==

== Current Features ==