Swobodin v Brně

Actually reading: The Prince — Niccolò Machiavelli.
Some quotes I liked:

The Romans, therefore, foreseeing evils while they were yet far off, always provided against them, and never suffered them to take their course for the sake of avoiding war; since they knew that war is not so to be avoided, but is only postponed to […]

The European Library is a portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals…. - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced.
The project aims to digitalize the European libraries books, but also to prevent Google […]

I’m not really sure whether I am allowed to redistribute my electronic copies of O’Reilly books, however, I’m not sure if it’s forbidden!
According to the license that I find in most of O’Reilly books, there’s no line that prohibits the redistribution of the book, and there’s no legal threat, the only “serious” notice is

Copyright […]

Found an interesting free e-book that you can download from Cypher Press website (216 KB).
The book is a collection of limericks, short funny poems with particular structure. There are also analysis of the poems with possible variants. Be careful of offensive and “dirty” words and meanings.
There was a young Royal Marine,
Who tried to fart […]

Wikibooks is one of my favorite portals, where I can get different kind of information for free! No matters of the topic, they are almost all included: Computing,
arts, languages (human), jokes, culture, literature, …
I recently got interested by the book of the month, European History, a comprehensive text that introduces readers to the political, […]

 
Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
The Project Gutenberg has over 10,000 books legally available for download in more than 50 languages: German, French, Spanish, Afrikaan, Yiddish, … except in Arabic.
I sometimes want to look for electronic books written by famous Arabic writers in their original […]