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Volunteer-transcribed source texts shown beside their page scans, useful for treaties, speeches, statutes and primary documents.

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Before you rely on itProofreading status varies from validated to untouched, and some works sit half-transcribed, so check the page-status banner before quoting.

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How you get in
Free to readOpen to anyone, no account needed.
Rights
Mixed rightsHoldings differ: check the statement on the item itself.
Subjects
Literature · History · Law · Philosophy · General
Formats
Web · EPUB · PDF · Scan
Languages
Multilingual, with a separate site for each language
Run by
Wikimedia Foundation

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  • Details checked

    The name, address and search page were opened and checked against each other. Last run .

  • Access confirmed

    How you get a book here, and on what terms, was read from the library’s own statement. Last run .

  • Used and reviewed

    Not checked yet. That is not a failure; it only means nobody has done this one.

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