Based on our record, Open Library seems to be a lot more popular than Microsoft Translator. While we know about 263 links to Open Library, we've tracked only 8 mentions of Microsoft Translator. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Do you have access to Microsoft products? They have an appthat students can add to a device that will translate your spoken words into text (you have to have the app or website open as well). There are several other Microsoft translation tools that would also work in different ways, which you may be able to use without a Microsoft license. Google’s translation tools are not as well integrated. Source: over 1 year ago
Translator.microsoft.com works fine in a web browser - and all I have gotten is positive feedback from my colleagues in UA about the quality/accuracy of the translations. Source: almost 2 years ago
Iirc Microsoft, Apple, and Google are working on this with the help of AI. We are playing around with the Microsoft Neural Machine Translator at work to assist with translation for non-English speaking patients. https://translator.microsoft.com. Source: almost 2 years ago
It is very interesting to understand how Machine Translation engines work such as Masakhane translate, Google translate, Amazon, Microsoft Translator, etc. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago
For anyone who does not know the language and is looking for an effective way to bridge the language gap: I have been using https://translator.microsoft.com/ and it has been very useful. Source: about 2 years ago
Check out https://openlibrary.org. You can search ´library science’, librarian’, etc, and something should come up. Just select the ‘ebooks’ option to search for items within the collection. And you can narrow the search by subject, etc. Source: 7 months ago
Right now I'm in the middle of the chicken and the egg problem where we don't have enough authors cataloging their publications and b/c of that obviously readers are not interested in using the site. I've gone back and forth with taking Open Libray's [0] catalog as that would at least flesh out our collection of books but then I'd have to deal with verifying authors to accounts so they can access their books.... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
Here's one: https://openlibrary.org/. Source: 8 months ago
The Internet Archive runs what they call the Open Library, which is a unique concept on the traditional library. You can sign-up with minimal details and digitally check out many scanned books from libraries all over the world. The only caveat is that almost all of the books are older editions - ones that would be impossible to find locally. It's great if you're looking for old routes, a look back in time, details... Source: 8 months ago
I want to clarify that I'm a non-US citizen, so accessing physical copies from US libraries or buying it from Amazon might not be feasible for me. To give you some context, my personal research was guided by the wiki section of r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH (https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/wiki/reading/). I've conducted research using various online resources, including the Ebook & Open Source/Access Libraries... Source: 9 months ago
Google Translate - Google's free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between English and over 100 other languages.
Archive.org - Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies...
DeepL Translator - DeepL Translator is a machine translator that currently supports 42 language combinations.
Z-Lib - ZLibraryPart of Z-Library project. The world's largest ebook library.
Mate Translate - Ultimate translation app for Mac, iOS, Chrome and many more
ManyBooks.net - Thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your computer, smartphone, iPod, or e-reading device - ePUB, Kindle, eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, RTF, Mobipocket, Newton Paperback, and zTXT ebooks ready to go!