#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4: Share a tool of your trade.

Jürgen Hubert

Digital archives of public domain works, since they provide the German folk tale collections I translate.

The #InternetArchive and Google Books are the most important ones I use, but honorable mentions go out to:

Münchener DigitalisierungsZentrum: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/

Silesian Digital Library:
https://sbc.org.pl/dlibra

Russian State Library:
https://search.rsl.ru/

all of which have large numbers of German-language books in the public domain as well.

Kodymirus

@juergen_hubert a lot of German texts from the 19th century is also in the Czech digital library: https://ceskadigitalniknihovna.cz/

Jürgen Hubert

@michal_h21

Thanks! Looks like there might be a few useful additions in there to the big link list of German-language folk tale collections!

Kodymirus

@juergen_hubert I hope there will be

Jürgen Hubert

@michal_h21

Question: Is there a way of downloading entire books as PDFs, and not just 20 pages at a time?

Kodymirus

@juergen_hubert I am afraid that 20 pages is the maximum limit. I suspect that it is for some legal reasons, because it doesn't make much sense.

Jürgen Hubert

@michal_h21

Well, since many other digital libraries allow downloading whole books, the legal reasons don't make much sense either. Unless they have copyrighted books in their archives as well.

That doesn't mean I won't be able to use these books, but if I want to have offline copies, I have to do some tedious PDF merging...

EDIT: Yup, they have some copyrighted works as well...

Digitální knihovna Kramerius

(ceskadigitalniknihovna.cz)

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#WritersCoffeeClub Jan. 4: Share a tool of your trade.

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