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**Environmental Tip**: Generally prefer eBooks and Audiobooks over physical books - except second hand. Digitization - if done right - reduces used resources, used energy and waste.
'''Environmental Tip''': Generally prefer eBooks and audiobooks over physical books - except second hand. Digitization - if done right - reduces used resources, used energy and waste.


- <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Wikibooks-logo.svg/35px-Wikibooks-logo.svg.png" height="16"/> **[Wikibooks](https://en.wikibooks.org/)** and <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/46px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" height="16"/> **[Wikisource](https://en.wikisource.org/)** are part of the Wikimedia Foundation and therefore very trustworthy sources for e-books and papers.
* '''[https://en.wikibooks.org/ Wikibooks]''' and '''[https://en.wikisource.org/ Wikisource]''' are part of the Wikimedia Foundation and therefore very trustworthy sources for e-books and papers.
- <img src="https://ia902605.us.archive.org/21/items/texts/texts.png" height="16"/> **[Internet Archive: Free Books](https://archive.org/details/texts)** and <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Emojione_1F4DC.svg/1024px-Emojione_1F4DC.svg.png" height="16"/> **[Izzy's eBook library](https://ebooks.qumran.org/)** are great sources for freely licensed books too.
* '''[https://archive.org/details/texts Internet Archive: Free Books]''' and '''[https://ebooks.qumran.org/ Izzy's eBook library]''' are great sources for freely licensed books too.
- <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/LibriVox_ico.png" height="16"/> **[LibriVox](https://librivox.org/)** is another source for public domain audio books, but ❗️the site contains Google tracking. You can however access the entire catalogue and more from the <img src="https://ia600900.us.archive.org/32/items/audio_bookspoetry/audio_bookspoetry.png" height="16"/> **[Internet Archive: Audio Books & Poetry](https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry)** too.
* '''[https://librivox.org/ LibriVox]''' is another source for public domain audio books, but ❗️the site contains Google tracking. You can however access the entire catalogue and more from the '''[https://archive.org/details/audio_bookspoetry Internet Archive: Audio Books & Poetry]''' too.
- <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/36px-Commons-logo.svg.png" height="16"/> **[Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audiobooks)** has a small category for audiobooks.
* '''[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Audiobooks Wikimedia Commons]''' has a small category for audiobooks.
- You can find more DRM-free sources listed at [DefectiveByDesign](https://www.defectivebydesign.org/guide/ebooks).


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