HathiTrust Digital Library – books online
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·July 15, 2025robin_reala
We use Hathi a lot at Standard Ebooks as a source of scans to proof productions against. Archive.org has a somewhat better interface, but Hathi has a wider selection.
apaprocki
I would use this site all the time for genealogy purposes. It’s hard to unravel how the datasets are shared, because many things here are from Google’s scanning, but IMO there are lots of things that do not appear anywhere else.
dilawar
Haathi means elephant in Hindi. I first thought it is to be an Indian site but it is based in the US.
Curious about the connection.
JdeBP
You can still find the original answer, from 2008, at https://old.www.hathitrust.org/help_general.html .
pyuser583
There's an English saying, "an elephant never forgets." I'm guessing its about that.
My family is from Eastern KY and I had access to the HTDL and NYPL through my stint working for a public university a few years ago. It's fascinating what you can find in there! When I had looked a couple years ago it seemed like there wasn't as much publicly available as what I am seeing now.