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| Books Online (ebooks) Links |
| Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts http://www.infomotions.com/alex/ A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. |
| Audible.com http://www.audible.com My favorite audiobook site (commercial but worth it)--you can listen to samples from books and narrators before buying; information on mp3 players and various membership plans. (Has worked with libraries) Other nice audiobook sites: Books On Tape (has sites for libraries and schools); SimplyAudiobooks |
| Audio Bookshelf http://www.audiobookshelf.com/index.html Includes list of articles on audiobooks and literacy |
| AudioBooksForFree http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp Audiobooks with low quality, multiple-file mp3 formats available for free if you "join"--but they charge for good quality files. |
| Bartleby.com - Great Books Online http://www.bartleby.com/ Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse, fiction and nonfiction. |
| Bibliomania - Free Online Literature and Study Guides http://www.bibliomania.com/ Free online literature with more than 2000 classic texts, study guides, classic fiction, frama, poetry, short stories and contemporary articles and interviews, and reference |
| Bookshare.org http://www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html Bookshare.org gives print disabled people in the United States legal access to over 31,000 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files. |
| Books In the Web Library http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/books.htm Online companion to the book, The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Nick Tomaiuolo. Chapter Five: Books in the Web Library (Excellent Resource) Last update: 5-23-06. |
| EBooks-Adelaide- Free Web Books http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/ This Australian university library's collection offers hundreds of electronic books, including "classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History." Searchable; browsable by author (alphabetically or chronologically), title, or theme. Includes links to other electronic book collections and literature resources. |
| Free-ebooks.net http://www.free-ebooks.net/ Paradise Publishers sponsors this site: "The Internet's #1 Online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors." Thousands of free ebooks to download, and a place to "showcase your eBooks to hundreds of thousands of visitors a month." Descriptions and ratings help, but these look like "unpublished" books. |
| FullBooks.com http://www.fullbooks.com/ Thousands of full-text free books |
| Internet Public Library - Online Texts http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/ Links to online book collections -- wonderful directory from IPL |
| Manybooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod,
or eBook reader http://www.manybooks.net/ "Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 16,485 eBooks available here and they're all free!" |
| National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/browse.html "We offer many titles in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book, while others are available for purchase. Our frequently asked questions guide answers questions about purchasing and accessing our electronic books." Covers topics of: Agriculture, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Biology and Life Sciences, Computers and Information Technology, Conflict and Security Issues, Earth Sciences, Education, Energy and Energy Conservation, Engineering and Technology, Environment and Environmental Studies, Food and Nutrition, Health and MEdicine, Industry and Labor, Math, Chemistry and Physics, Science: Past and Future, Space and Aeronautics, Transportation and Infrastructure |
| Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web (search or browse by title, author, subject) Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom (onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu) |
| Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings. At present there are no charges for downloading texts. |
| Podiobooks http://www.podiobooks.com/ " The termpodiobooks was coined by Evo Terra to describe serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format. Listeners to Podiobooks.com can choose to receive the episodes of their books via an RSS feed or by listening to episodes by directly downloading episodes from this site. Some listeners keep the audio files on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most transfer the file on to their mp3 player so they can listen no matter where they are." Free of charge because relatively unknown authors get exposure for their work. Donations accepted (a portion goes to authors). |
| Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ "Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. Our collection of more than 13,000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and redistributed for non-commerical use ..." |
| Rare Books on the Web http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/rare.html Online companion to the book, The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources, by Nick Tomaiuolo. New section: Rare Books (last update 12-14-05) |
| Read Print -- Online Books, Poems, Short stories http://www.readprint.com/ "A warm welcome to Read Print, your free online library. Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index." |
| Renascence Editions http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm "Renascence Editions is an effort to make available online works printed in English between the years 1477 (when Caxton began printing) and 1799. These texts have been produced with care and attention, but are not represented by the publisher as scholarly editions in the peer-reviewed sense." Approximately 200 texts. Browsable (by author). |
| UofToronto Libraries- Books Online http://link.library.utoronto.ca/booksonline/ Books Online are books that have been digitized, from the University of Toronto Libraries. They are freely available online and out-of-copyright. The collection currently contains 855 titles. The full text of these books can be searched, and they are also listed in our catalogue. Through our participation in the Open Content Alliance (OCA), a further 45,000 books have been digitized from the University of Toronto Libraries. |
| Women Writers Resource Project http://chaucer.library.emory.edu/wwrp/ A collection of edited and unedited texts by women writing in English from the seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. |
| World Public Library http://www.worldlibrary.net/ Our collection hosts more than 400,000+ PDF eBooks and eDocuments. As a member you will have complete access to the entire collection. Our collection is constantly growing. Our projection is to reach 500,000 by fall of 2007; individual membership for $8.95/year. |