Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Wolne Lektury


Description

Wolne Lektury is a free online library open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It archives books5518, including set readings recommended by the Ministry of National Education which have already fallen in the public domain. All the texts are adequately edited - annotated with footnotes and motifs - and are available in several formats - HTML , TXT , PDF, EPUB, MOBI. The library also contains a few hundred audiobooks read by famous actors like: Danuta Stenka, Jan Peszek or Andrzej Chyra. The audiobooks can be used in MP3 and Ogg Vorbis formats. They are also available in DAISY format suiting the needs of people with poor vision, the blind, and those having reading difficulties.

The Wolne Lektury library is available through mobile devices.

You are allowed to browse, listen to, and download all the items in Wolne Lektury, as well as share and cite them, entirely free of charge.

Project website

https://wolnelektury.pl


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
  • AL C7. E-learning 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Poland

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2011

End date

Not set


WSIS values promotion

It uses ICTs in promotion of free and open for all education/access to books and resources


Entity name

Modern Poland Foundation

Entity country—type

Poland Civil Society

Entity website

https://nowoczesnapolska.org.pl