More classic Quaker books available online

Geeky read­ers out there might want to know that Google Books is now mak­ing many of its out-of-print col­lec­tion avail­able as down­load­able and print­able PDFs. They list 42,500 entries under “Soci­ety of Friends”:http://books.google.com/books?q=%22society+of+friends%22&btnG=Search+Books&as_brr=1 I’m unsure whether this is books with that phrase or pages inside books with that phrase, but either way that’s a lot of read­ing. A quick breeze turns up some good titles. Thanks to “Tech Crunch”:http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/30/google-allows-downloads-of-out-of-copyright-books/ for the Google news. Old­er online book projects worth a men­tion: “Project Gutenberg”:http://www.gutenberg.org the “Chris­t­ian Clas­sics Ethe­r­i­al Library”:http://www.ccel.org/ and the Earl­ham School of Reli­gion’s use­ful but clunky “Dig­i­tal Quak­er Collection”:http://esr.earlham.edu/dqc/.

2 thoughts on “More classic Quaker books available online

  1. Mar­tin,
    From the link you’ve pro­vid­ed, the Google search looks as though each and every page they’ve repro­duced is indexed as a “hit” on the search.
    Just my ama­teur­ish opin­ion. Thanks for the info, though!
     — Chris M.

  2. *Hi Chris:* You mean how it shows over 42,000 titles with match­es to “soci­ety of friends”? Yes, that is odd. It looks like the right num­ber is clos­er to 287, which sounds about right.

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