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Automobilisto
Over 30,000 original car brochures scanned from European dealer archives, free as PDFs with no sign-up, each l
automobilisto.de
FUNES
Monuments and cultural heritage scanned into detailed 3D models you can orbit in the browser, from the Trevi F
funes.world
ManualsLib
Millions of user manuals for appliances, cars, cameras and gadgets, searchable by model and readable online.
manualslib.com
MapGenie
Interactive maps for hundreds of video games, with every collectible, chest and secret pinned so you can tick
mapgenie.io
Auto Catalog Archive
Scans of thousands of original car brochures and catalogues, from pre-war roadsters to 90s hatchbacks.
autocatalogarchive.com
Capitol Trades
Every stock trade disclosed by US members of Congress, searchable by politician, company and date.
capitoltrades.com
Loyal Books
Thousands of public domain audiobooks and ebooks, free to stream or download, from Austen to Zane Grey.
loyalbooks.com
Recommend Me a Book
Read the opening page of a random novel with title and author hidden, and only reveal them if it hooks you.
recommendmeabook.com
TasteDive
Name a band, film, book or game you love and get a list of similar things across all of them.
tastedive.com
Fragrantica
An encyclopedia of perfume, with notes, accords and longevity for tens of thousands of fragrances, voted on by
fragrantica.com
Papermau
A blog gathering thousands of free paper models from designers around the world: aircraft, buildings, robots,
papermau.blogspot.com
Sakugabooru
An archive of standout cuts of hand-drawn animation, tagged by animator, studio and show. Where animation fans
sakugabooru.com
Settei Dreams
An archive of the model sheets animators work from, with character turnarounds, props and expression charts fr
setteidreams.net
Damn Interesting
Meticulously researched long-form stories about obscure corners of science and history, published slowly since
damninteresting.com
The Marginalian
Maria Popova's decades-long reading diary: long, careful essays threading poets, scientists and letter-writers
themarginalian.org
Low-tech Magazine
A magazine about old and stubbornly durable technology, served from a solar-powered box in Barcelona. When the
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
Atlas Obscura
A gazetteer of the world’s overlooked places — a stairwell to nowhere, a museum of soil, a town built inside a
atlasobscura.com
Standard Ebooks
Public domain books rebuilt properly: proofread text, modern typography, real covers, no scan artefacts. What
standardebooks.org
The Pudding
Visual essays answering questions nobody thought to ask — how pockets differ by gender, what makes a rap lyric
pudding.cool
Google Arts & Culture
Gigapixel scans from the world museums, plus tours, stories and some genuinely fun experiments.
artsandculture.google.com
Marginalia Search
A search engine that deliberately favours small, non-commercial, text-heavy sites. Finds the old web.
search.marginalia.nu
Are.na
Collect and connect images, links and text into channels. A calm, ad-free alternative to moodboards.
are.na
The Public Domain Review
Essays curating the strangest and loveliest things that have fallen out of copyright.
publicdomainreview.org
MetaFilter
A community weblog running since 1999 where the best of the web gets posted and discussed.
metafilter.com
Open Library
One web page for every book ever published, with borrowing built on the Internet Archive.
openlibrary.org
Lobsters
A smaller, invite-only, tag-driven link aggregator with a notably high signal to noise ratio.
lobste.rs
Project Gutenberg
Seventy thousand public domain books, carefully proofread, in every format you would want.
gutenberg.org
Hacker News
Link aggregator for programming and startups. Read the comments; that is where the value is.
news.ycombinator.com
Wayback Machine
Nine hundred billion saved web pages. The reason the internet has a memory at all.
web.archive.org
Rijksstudio
Download seven hundred thousand works from the Rijksmuseum in extraordinary resolution, free to reuse.
rijksmuseum.nl
Wiby
A search engine for pages built like it is still 1999. Surprise Me is the main feature.
wiby.me
Internet Archive
Books, films, software, music and the web itself, preserved and free to access forever.
archive.org