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The following list of eLibraries provides eBooks for the general collection:
including nonfiction, fiction, classics, literature, and more.
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General Libraries
Abacci Books:
http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp
Digital text versions of classic literature with reviews from Amazon (txt &
.lit).
Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex
or http://www.infomotions.com/alex/
Site contains a catalog with roughly 2,000 links of e-texts, located on
various servers.
American Library Association http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/lit.html
700+ SITES for CHILDREN covering Literature and Language
Aportis Library: http://www.aportis.com/library/index.html
over 5000 "AportisDoc" or "DOC" format
Ask Sam ebooks:
http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/
Free searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt reports,
legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. Requires registration
& downloading the free askSam viewer software to use.
Audio Books for Free:
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp
Over 300 audio books (as MP3 file) available for free download.
Some texts available as unabridged edition.
Audiobooks with
Annie:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/LibraryLadyAudiobooks
A collection of podcasts of classic books in the public domain, read aloud by
Annie, the host (MP3)
AuthorArcs:
http://www.authorarcs.com/
The novels available by email request.
Baen Free Library: http://www.baen.com/library/
Over 100 relatively new popular science fiction books in Reader, Palm, Rocket, and RTF.
Bartleby.com:
http://www.bartleby.com/
Classic books and resource/reference texts in html.
Bibliomania:
http://www.bibliomania.com/
Over 2000 texts of classic literature, book notes, references, and resources in
html format.
Blackmask Online: http://www.blackmask.com/
down due to copyright dispute - now available as
http://www.munseys.com/
over 20,000 texts in a variety of formats: .lit, .html, .pds, etc.
Book Glutton:
http://www.bookglutton.com
Mixing online book reading with discussion groups. Uses a three panel display
for the text, the center panel shows the text, the side panels Talk and Mark,:
Talk for conversation with other about the book; and Mark to take notes about
the book.
BookRags
http://www.bookrags.com/index.html
Book notes and over 1500 novels (HTML) available.
Bookyards:
http://www.bookyards.com/
Bookyards has over 14,000 books (PDF format) in a variety of topics.
Burst, Steven:
http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html
Noted science fiction author Steven Burst has released a Firefly novel under the
Creative Commons license (PDF & Word).
Center for
Educational Technology and Learning (CETL):
http://cetl.edtech.csulb.edu/tgg/
Great excerpt from Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Flash and audio
(MP3).
CIA Publication Library:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/index.html
Including the World Fact Book
with up to date information on every country in the world.
Classic Book Library:
http://classicbook.info/index.html
Over 125 books in seven genres done in HTML page by page format.
Classic Bookshelf:
http://www.classicbookshelf.com/SiteMap.htm
Classic books deliver in JAVA format with adjustable text structure, size, and
color along with adjustable background and text (txt) formats.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare:
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Online reading (HTML).
Concordances of Great Books http://www.concordance.com/
about 600 literary works
Creative Commons Books:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
Over 50 works that are or have
been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
CyberRead Free Books: http://www.cyberread.com/free_ebooks/free_catalg.asp
Diesel eBooks:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=free_download
Over 700 free ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader (LIT)
Digital Text Project http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/projects/digitexts/index.html
Links to great books
Digitized Materials from the Rare Book & Special Collections Division:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll.html
Over five special collections from the Library of Congress, scanned books in two
image sizes.
Doctor Who the Classic Series:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/index.shtml
Eight Dr. Who books in multiple formats.
DotLit: http://www.dotlit.com/
only .lit files for MS Reader
Dragonbytes.com Library:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/
Seven authors of famous classic horror including Poe and Lovecraft (HTML).
eBooks@Adeliade (University of Adelaide Library):
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au
Over 1000 web books, including classic literature, philosophy, science, and
history (HTML).
Ebooks4free:
http://www.ebooks4free.net
Index site with links to" free e-books and more. In plain text, RTF, HTML,
downloadable as zip files, or as PDFs.
eScholarship Editions:
http://content.cdlib.org/search?sort=title&relation=escholarship.cdlib.org&style=eschol&rights=Public
Over 500 books available to the public from the California Digital Library
Electronic Literature Foundation:
http://www.thegreatbooks.org/elf2_library.html
Over 100 classic works in HTML format (page by page).
Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
thousands of xml, html, Reader, and Palm texts.
Elegant Solutions Software Company eBooks:
http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm
MS Reader books
eServer.org: http://eserver.org/
From the University of Washington. Collections include not just English, but
also art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory,
cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music (HTML).
EServer Drama Collection:
http://drama.eserver.org/
Plays from classical through Modern (HTML). Site contains a collection of
original plays and screenplays, criticism and links.
The English Server's Fiction Collection:
http://eserver.org/fiction/
works of and about fiction
FeedBooks.com:
http://www.feedbooks.com/
Over 1500 texts in a variety of genres (PDF, Sony, iLiad)
The Florida Electronic Library:
http://www.flelibrary.org/
A full digital public library for Florida Residents.
The Franklin Free Library: http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary/
1000+ text and HTML files
Free Classic
Audio Books:
http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
A collection of over 35 classic books available for
download as audio books (mp3 format or m4b audio book), books are either human
narrated or are narrated using text to speech voices.
FreeAudio.org:
http://www.freeaudio.org/
FreeAudio.org is a non-partisan organization dedicated to the spread of liberty
with MP3 files.
Free-Books.org:
http://www.free-books.org/
Lots of books in both text and mp3 formats.
Free Library of Classics: http://www.information-resources.com/Library/library.html
over 200 html formatted classics.
Great Literature Online:
http://www.classicauthors.net/
Works (in HTML) of over 136 authors.
HarperCollins Browse Inside:
http://www.harpercollins.com/book/browseinsidemain.aspx?HCHP=Tile_R_BIFullAccess_021108
HarperCollins has a special feature
on their website called "Browse Inside," an application allowing visitors to
sample whole books from the list of HarperCollins titles online using a special
flash display. Click on the Browse Inside link to access content. Over 500
titles in the general section and similar number in the children's section.
Children's Books:
http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com/HarperChildrens/Kids/BookFinder/
Hour of the Wolf Science Fiction Collection:
http://www.hourwolf.com/sfbooks/index.htm
Links to science fiction and fantasy books online.
Hypertexts:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html
Links to online texts for American studies, including works from authors writing
about America or American Literature.
Intersect Digital Library:
http://intersect.uoregon.edu/
A small library of "supported text" books, books which have incorporated
resources and reading/study strategies that help student learn more from what
they read.
Internet Public Library:
http://www.ipl.org/div/books
links to
over 20,000 titles
the Kurt
Vonnegut Library:
http://vonnegut.cultish.org/
15 books from the author in PDF, Word, txt, and MP3
LearnoutLoud.com:
http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video
A collection of audiobooks or links to audiobooks including topics of Education,
Business, and Literature. (MP3)
LibriVox:
http://librivox.org/
Free audiobook collection done by human readers of public domain books in mp3
or ogg file formats.
LiteralSystems.org:
http://literalsystems.org/files/
Over 45 audio eBooks of
classic literature and poetry.
Literature @ SunSITE:
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
Collection of digital literary texts (mostly U.S. authors) in chapter
HTML
Literature Network:
http://www.online-literature.com/
Over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors
(HTML).
Literature.org:
http://www.literature.org/
An Online Library of Literature Classics in HTML chapter format.
Litrix Reading Room:
http://www.litrix.com/readroom.htm
Over
300 public domain titles in HTML chapter format.
LoudLit.org:
http://loudlit.org/
delivering public domain literature embedded into web pages (text and audio)
- Making of America (MOA):
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
Created by Cornell University Library, MOA is a digital library of
primary sources in American social history (antebellum through reconstruction
periods). This is a full text/image journal site of 22 magazines from 1830's
to 1900's.
Manybooks.net:
http://manybooks.net/
More than 10,000 eBooks Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or PDA in
multiple formats, including versions for the iPod.
***Go to"WAP-enabled"
mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/) for free
e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone).
***For PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/
Memoware:
http://www.memoware.com
Wide variety of documents and book on various categories in Palm and other
formats .
Moon Books Project:
http://moonbooks.net/moonbooks/news.php
eBooks for Nintendo DS device. Over 80 downloadable files, some with multiple
books, mostly classics.
Motion Mountain Physics:
http://www.motionmountain.net/
Free downloadable physics text book.
Munseys : Formerly Blackmask:
http://www.munseys.com/
over 20,000 texts in a variety of formats: .lit, .html, .pds, etc.
Microsoft Reader e- books (free category):
http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE
Links to over 1,500 eBooks in MS Reader (.lit) format along with MS
resources including dictionaries.
National Academy Press: http://www.nap.edu
Read and search the fulltext of their digitized books
On-Line Books: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
15000+ listings, usually .txt
Open Library:
http://www.openlibrary.org/
A great demonstration of a selected number of books from the Internet Archive,
displaying how books can be shared on the internet.
Oxford Text Archive:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
From Oxford University, this archive contains public domain texts from the
on-line catalogue and may be downloaded (TXT, DOC, HTML, SGM, XML).
Page-by-Page Books:
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/
about 400 books to be read online (html).
PdaBooks.org:
http://www.pdabooks.org/
EBooks in PalmDOC (mostly) and MS Reader formats.
PDA Librarian:
http://user.pa.net/~thompson/
Links to carefully-chosen selections in the following categories:
Outstanding Books for the College Bound; Best Novels Written in the English
Language; Downloads Available by Author; Great Books For Teens; Political
Documents.
PDF Books: http://www.pdfbooks.co.za/
Over 7,000 downloadable public domain e-books, classified alphabetically by
author (in the Open Literature section). All files are in pdf format (standard
or mobile versions for a small screen (more pages)).
Penguin Books - We Tell Stories:
http://wetellstories.co.uk/
Exciting variety of newly created short stories matched with classics.
Includes a Google map story, some Choose Your Own Adventures, a presentation
story, a story told though twittter, and a simultaneous written story.
Perseus Project:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
A digital library of Greek & Latin texts (HTML).
Planet eBook:
http://www.planetebook.com/
A collection of over forty leading classic novels (PDF) - one and two page
layout versions.
Planet PDF (Free eBooks area):
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2311
Over 60 popular classic novels in the PDF format.
PitBooks.com:
http://www.pitbook.com/home.htm
About 100 books in English and French grouped into a variety of topics
PocketPC Books: http://www.pocketpcbooks.net/
More than forty free e- books (mostly popular classics) in Microsoft
Reader (.lit format). The site has on-page translation available in six European
languages.
PocketRocketFX.com:
http://www.pocketrocketfx.com/html/ebooks.htm
Classics library in Reader format.
Project Gutenberg: http://promo.net/pg/
http://www.gutenberg.net
Oldest and largest online library usually .txt only.
Rare Book Room:
http://www.rarebookroom.org/
A large number of rare books, available as high resolution photographs or PDF
Read At Work:
http://www.readatwork.com/
A very fun ebook site that delivers books (poetry, short stories, and classics)
in what looks like PowerPoint presentations. The site from the New Zealand Book
Council delivers the texts using Flash that looks like PowerPoint. Very fun as
the Flash application that runs in fullscreen and looks exactly like a
Windows XP desktop with book categories to choose from. 20+ texts in FLASH.
Read Easily!:
http://www.readeasily.com/
Approximately 300 classic texts in html, the site also can adjust the display
for easier reading including visually disabled.
Read Print:
http://www.readprint.com/
Thousands of books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast
in HTML.
realliteraturedir.com:
http://www.realliteraturedir.com/
Site provides books and biography and literary information on over
115 authors. See the Biography picture and read Literary work of the eminent
authors by clicking on their name. (HTML)
Safari Books Online:
http://safari.peachpit.com/home
E-reference library for programmers and IT. Contains components of many tech
books.
Southwestern Classics On-line:
http://www.oldcardboard.com/lsj/olbooks/olb_home.htm
Five classic books about Texas and the Southwest (HTM)
TOR:
http://www.tor.com/Default.aspx
Tor publishing, which offers a wide range of
science fiction, is offering free weekly books if you sign up
Travel eBooks by Mark Moxon:
http://www.moxon.net/ebooks/
Collection of over 18 eBooks world spanning travel books, containing the
writings of travel writer Mark Moxon. Multiple formats.
Universal Library:
http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu
The million books project - content in English, Indian, and Chinese
languages.
Free USA e-books:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/openbooks/index.htm?loc=interstitialskip
USA Today's Open Book program, over 25 books in HTML. Open Book
runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all
visitors, published in weekly installments.
http://www.openbook.usatoday.com
USGS Books and Other Publications:
http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/
Listings of online books, reports, and pamphlets published by the U.S.
Geological Survey's Geology Discipline. Or search for publications =- change to
advanced search - select USGS publication series drop down to General
Interest Publication then click on Search Now button
http://pubs.usgs.gov/products/books/index.html
Voices in the Dark:
http://www.voicesinthedark.com/
Collection of audio books and stories read aloud by real people, available in
low or high-bitrate MP3.
WebBooks.com: http://www.web-books.com/default.htm
over a 1000 classic texts usually in own reader format or HTML.
Wikibooks Portal:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
A collection of free, open-content textbooks, including a collection of science
and technology (HTML).
Wired for Books:
http://www.wiredforbooks.org/
Collections of audio books and interviews. Contains full versions of A Christmas
Carol, Alice in Wonderland, and Beatrix Potter stories along with short stories
and excerpts from other books. (Real player)
Wiretap Electronic Text Archive: Classics:
http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Classic/
A gopher tool containing text (.txt) versions of literary classics.
WORD IQ:
http://www.wordiq.com/books/index.php
Over10,000 online e-books, in HTML paged format. Each word is hyperlinked to a
dictionary.
WOWIO:
http://www.wowio.com/index.asp
WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables
readers to download eBooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate
authors and publishers (free account required). EBooks available in PDF format.
World eBook Library:
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Over 27000 free eBooks in HTML format.
