National Library of Australia has listed my free ebook: Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation iami1.wordpress.com blog book

Last updated on 25th Feb. 2019

[25th Feb. 2019 update: The Open Library entry of my book has been deleted in the National Library of Australia. No reason has been provided. As Australia is a foreign country to me and a place which I have never visited, I decided against making any attempts to contact them to ask why it has been deleted.]

Interesting to see that the National Library of Australia has listed my free ebook, "Who am I? I am I - Ultimate Existential Reality Answer; Vedanta; God and Science conversation iami1.wordpress.com blog book" here: https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/253998922. It essentially links to the Open Library free ebook (I had added it there a few days ago).

I think this is the first national library of any country to list my first proper (well formatted and organized with colour cover front and back pages, table of contents etc.) free ebook. Very interesting that it turned out to be Australia, given some Muddenahalli group Facebook fake ID vicious, malicious and false allegation Facebook attacks I have faced from some people who seem to be based, at least partly, in Melbourne, Australia. Note that some of these Facebook fake ID attacks put a lot of stress on me and negatively impacted my real life in Puttaparthi as it sought to create enmity between some powerful person(s) in Puttaparthi and me.

As I had got the first proper version of this ebook ready, around 24th April or so, I sought to first upload it to any Indian (union/federal) government run national library on the Internet. So I Google-searched for terms like 'India free ebooks' (without quotes).

If I recall correctly I landed up on sites like these:

1) Public Library of India, https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia. This was part of the well known archive.org website. I uploaded my ebook on archive.org and it got put up there. I need to check out whether I need to do something additional to mark it as relevant to  https://archive.org/details/digitallibraryindia.

2) NATIONAL MISSION ON LIBRARIES,Ministry of Culture, Government of India, http://www.nmlindia.nic.in/pages/display/51-ebooks.

Its Free e-books library link took me to http://ebooksgo.org/, which was a new website to me. I did not spend too much time on it.

Its Free e-books link took me to Free ebooks - Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/, which is a famous site which I had visited many times in the past. To upload books here, one has to visit Project Gutenberg Self-Publishing Press,  http://self.gutenberg.org/ and register there, which I did.  I did upload this e-book of mine (an earlier version dated around 24th April 2018, if I recall correctly) to this website but I got no response. I intend to now apply for an ISBN number for the ebook. Once I get that, I plan to update the ebook back cover page to have the ISBN barcode and update the initial page in the book having the no copyright notice for my content, to have the ISBN number. After that, I think I will try to upload the ebook again to Project Gutenberg.
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Essentially, I did not get any Govt. of India fully managed and operated website holding repositories of free ebooks when I had checked a few days ago. [The archive.org one mentioned above is not fully managed by Govt. of India though it may contribute to managing the India digital library part of archive.org.]

But today I saw that there is the National Library, Ministry of Culture, Government of India website here: http://www.nationallibrary.gov.in/. As of now, the user registration link on this website does not work. It gives a message, "This facility will be made available soon". This seems to be its wikipedia page:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_India.

And then I came across: National Digital Library of India: https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/. It is sponsored by the Union (Federal) Ministry of Human Resource Development and coordinated by IIT Kharagpur. Its registration page opens up. So I intend to register here. After I finish the aforementioned ISBN related update to the ebook, I will try to upload it here.