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Every book, with its sources shown.

Dates checked, copyright positions stated by country, and only lawful places to read or buy. Where a book is still in copyright, we tell you so and point you to a library or bookseller.
The page of an old book caught mid-turn

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Reading times are measured, not guessed: the words in the main text of the linked edition, read at 238 words a minute — the average silent reading rate for non-fiction found by Brysbaert (2019). Books without a lawful text to measure carry no estimate.

Copyright is stated for Kenya (life of the author plus 50 years, Copyright Act 2001 s.23) and for the United States. A translation is its own work and is dated from the translator. Where we have not verified something, we say so.

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