Fighting Misinformation One Book at a Time

--------------------------------------------------------------- [ARCHIVE]()   [DONATE](   [JOBS](  [BLOG]()   [VOLUNTEER]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Browsing the Archive [World Night Market]( CONNECT [Just the Facts: Internet Archive + Wikipedia]( How do you know what's written in Wikipedia is true? You check the citations. And as of today, 130,000 of those citations lead directly to digital books in the Internet Archive. In a groundbreaking partnership, the Internet Archive, Wikipedia and libraries are working together to weave books and pages cited right into Wikipedia articles themselves. Who wins? Students, scholars, journalists and the public, who with just one click can now dive deeper into the vetted, edited knowledge in books. [Read More]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Washington Trip]( CONNECT [It’s Your Library, Help Us Build It]( If you could contribute to the world’s largest digital library, what books would you want to share with readers everywhere? The Internet Archive is pleased to announce Open Library’s book sponsorship program, which lets you, the reader, help place missing books on our digital shelves—ones that can better reflect your community’s needs, values and interests. To participate in this pilot program and discover what’s on our wishlist… [Read More](  ---------------------------------------------------------------  EXPLORE [The Wayback Machine: Fighting Digital Extinction in New Ways]( The average life of a webpage is 100 days before it’s changed or deleted. The Wayback Machine was created to preserve the history of these pages. But what if you want to know the exact details of each change? Up until now, you’d need to be a pretty savvy detective to decipher the differences between the two versions. But no longer! Now you can easily compare two pages side by side with the changes highlighted for you. From government websites to celebrity blogs, see what’s been updated, edited, or deleted over time. [Read More](  --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mueller Report]( EXPLORE [Even More Games To Help Whittle the Time Away]( Bored at work? Or looking to kill a little bit of time between projects? We’ve got you covered! There’s [SimCity 2000!]( And [DOOM]( And don’t forget [Leisure Suit Larry 6]( These are just some of the MS-DOS game titles in the Internet Archive extensive software collection, complete with the emulators to play the games directly in your browser. But wait, there’s more! We’ve now added such classics like [Mr. Blobby]( [Street Rod]( and [Super Munchers: The Challenge Continues](. Come relive the 90s in all their 8-bit glory. [Read More](  ---------------------------------------------------------------  [Star Trek]( READ [1000 Black Girl Books]( When 11-year-old Marley Dias became frustrated by the lack of diversity in her school’s reading material, she decided to take matters into her own hands. In November 2015, she launched a campaign called #1000BlackGirlBooks, with the goal of collecting and donating 1,000 books that feature black girls as the main character. Now more than 350 of these books have been uploaded to the Internet Archive so that anyone can enjoy them--check them out here! [EXPLORE](  [Flowers]( READ [Turn on, Tune In, and Read Up!]( Alexander Shulgin’s career in chemistry research spanned four decades, half a dozen institutions, and more than 230 psychoactive drugs. Known as the “godfather of psychedelics”, he discovered entire families of new compounds and synthesized hundreds of new substances, most of which he tested on himself, his friends, and his family. Although Shulgin’s research was eventually interrupted by the DEA, the Internet Archive has uploaded digital copies of his research notes so that anybody can read them. Happy reading and happy trails... [EXPLORE](  --------------------------------------------------------------- Articles We're Reading [Popular Mechanics: The 50 Most Important Websites of All Time]( [The Public Domain Review: Greenland Unicorns and the Magical Alicorn]( [Boing Boing: The Internet Archive's Open Library will let you sponsor a book, paying for it to be scanned]( ) [Slate: From Yertle the Turtle to Jojo Rabbit, a History of Hitler Satire]( [SlashGear: Now the Apple Store will sell you an Xbox controller: Here’s why]( --------------------------------------------------------------- We're Hiring! [Major Gifts Officer]( [Accounting Specialist – Temporary]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [A Little Bit Funds a Lot of Bytes - Donate Today!]( ---------------------------------------------------------------  [Facebook](  [Twitter](  [Mail](mailto:info@archive.org)  You are receiving this email because of your relationship to the Internet Archive. Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave. San Francisco, CA [Privacy Policy]( [unsubscribe from this list](