Polona
National libraries · Biblioteka Narodowa, the National Library of Poland
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Scans from the National Library of Poland: books, manuscripts, maps, prints and sheet music, most of them free to download and reuse.
Before you rely on itThe collection is overwhelmingly pre-1939, so it is a history and literature source rather than a place for modern textbooks, and OCR on gothic and older type is unreliable for keyword searching.
The best route to Polish-language literature, early printing and pre-war periodicals, at high resolution and with no registration.Telebem editors
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- How you get in
- Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
- Rights
- Public domainCopyright has expired. Read, copy and keep it freely.
- Subjects
- General · History · Literature · Art and design
- Formats
- Web · Scan · PDF
- Languages
- Polish material, plus Latin and German older printing, with an English interface
- Size
- The National Library announced three million objects in Polona in December 2019.
- Run by
- Biblioteka Narodowa, the National Library of Poland
- Address
- polona.pl
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