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resident Dwight D. Eisenhower summed it up nicely in his Dartmouth College Commencement speech:

Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book… [1]

Because as another former U.S. president, pointed out:

Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. [2]

Bookyards:  https://www.bookyards.com/en/welcome

DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books):   https://directory.doabooks.org/

Free Book Centre:   https://www.freebookcentre.net/

International Children’s Digital Library:   http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

IntechOpen:   https://www.intechopen.com/

Internet Archive:  https://archive.org/details/texts 

Internet Classics Archive:   http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

JSTOR Open Access Ebooks:   https://www.jstor.org/

Library of Congress:   https://archive.org/details/library_of_congress?tab=collection

LibriVox:   https://librivox.org/

Making of America:   https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/

ManyBooks.net:   https://manybooks.net/

Online Library of Liberty:   https://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=149

Open Library:   https://openlibrary.org/

Project Gutenberg:   https://www.gutenberg.org/

Standard Ebooks:   https://standardebooks.org/

The Public Domain Review:   https://publicdomainreview.org/

Worldcat:   https://www.worldcat.org/

Zlibrary:  https://z-lib.is/fulltext?q=scarlet+letter&type=phrase 

Endnotes:

[1] President Dwight David Eisenhower. Hanover, N. H. Dartmouth College. 1953. https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.0980090c/?sp=1 

[2] President Lyndon B. Johnson. “Remarks Upon Signing Bill Amending the Library Services Act.” February 11, 1964. The American Presidency Project. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-upon-signing-bill-amending-the-library-services-act

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