A "Google Books" for Seforim

Imagine having an entire library of over 45,000 Seforim at your fingertips - fully searchable, fully downloadable, and completely free. Fortunately for our generation, HebrewBooks.org will provide anyone with exactly that, in an awesome-looking, solid webapp.

HebrewBooks.org (a.k.a. The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books) is a non-profit organization, who's self-proclaimed goal is to "bring to life the many Seforim that were written and unfortunately forgotten, and to make all Torah Publications free and ubiquitous." They have also recently launched a smaller side-project for hosting manuscripts online at HebrewManuscripts.org.

Finding seforim on the site is generally easy, with the provided search and browse options. You can search both by title and author, and even for specific words contained in the seforim (more on that soon). They even have a convenient virtual Hebrew keyboard next to the input boxes, for those who don't know how to type in Hebrew.

The books are all available in original, scanned PDFs. Additionally, each sefer has been OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processed so that it's fully searchable. The seforim that were scanned may not be in the best of quality, and as-such, OCR can understandably be inaccurate. However, I've found that it's quite useful for the most part.

So try it today. You won't be disappointed.