More than 3.9 billion people - half of the world's population - are subject to quarantine in their homes, after the number of injuries exceeds one million, and while they are at home or in their place of residence, individuals and families find ways to entertain, spend time and household activities, and find time for reading and useful reading.
If you are a fan of reading and reading, you can take advantage of books available on the Internet for free without having to go to the library and purchase books. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to participate freely in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts, and to contribute to scientific progress." And in the benefits that result from it, every person has the right to protect the moral and material interests arising from any scientific, literary or artistic production of his own. ”
In light of this global crisis that changed many aspects of human life, some publishing houses, printing presses, bookstores and public libraries made their e-books free of charge to help readers benefit from their time spent in home quarantine in order to avoid pandemic infection. Here are some of these free resources:
Amazon
Amazon, the world's largest e-book store, has made available a wide range of audiobooks in many languages for different age groups for free, and this large audio library can be accessed via this link.
Alexandria Library
In conjunction with the closing of its doors to the public as part of the safety and pandemic prevention measures, the Bibliotheca Alexandrina offered all its electronic books for free to visitors through its website.
Chlef replied
The platform - which ranks as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States - is known for providing digital materials to millions of students across thousands of universities, and its website currently provides a large number of e-books for free after having agreed with publishing companies to facilitate access to them under the pandemic.
Harvard Business Review
The site is known for its services, articles and visual boycotts that provide administrative advice in the areas of development, development and business, and the site was granted a free subscription that includes sending articles and daily videos that were restricted to subscribers.
"We hope that you will make reading part of your daily schedule and you re-prioritize after increasing hours of sitting at home. Let this crisis turn into an opportunity. Genius and entrepreneur maker Andy Grove says: Bad companies are destroyed by crises, and good companies survive," he told his subscribers. Great ones come out better, and this, in our opinion, applies to individuals as well. "
Oxford Press website
The University Press website stated that it made its resources on coronaviruses available free of charge to assist researchers, professionals and even policymakers and others working on the epidemic, including more than 2,500 research articles and online chapters related to the virus, and also announced the provision of free temporary access to its e-books via the response platform Chlef.
Brill Publishing House
The ancient publishing house has made available numerous research and scientific books and articles on topics such as public health, distance education and crisis research, and it adds new content and makes it freely available to visitors today.
Al-Jazeera Center for Studies
The Gezira Studies Center has made available dozens of the Center’s books in Arabic for visitors, free of charge, as it can be downloaded in pdf format from the link provided for that.
Other resources
In addition to these electronic libraries that opened their doors to visitors to download their books during the time of the Corona pandemic, there are sites to read free books on the Internet in a legal way, including Google books, the Library of Congress, the open library, the Gutenberg project, Smash Words, the Internet archive, the Simpolis library, the book door platform, the Moneybox site, and engines Arabic search for books "Ktabji" and "sip".