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The linked lists represents only a small portion of the free eBook libraries
available today. Each of the libraries listed provides free services to the
public. Depending on the library book can be presented in either single or
multiple formats.
What's New in the Libraries! (Summer 2008)
Kids' Corner from Wired for
Books:
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
Audio stories from Beatrix Potter (English, French, German, and Japanese) and
Alice Adventures in Wonderland, Frog Prince, Christmas "Carol, Grimm's Fairy
Tales, and more (Real media)
Kennedy Center's Storytime Online:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/storytimeonline/
Four video story books (Real)
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.
Children's Literature From the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/digitalcoll/digitalcoll-children.html
Large number of children's books in PDF and online page flip formats.
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.
BooksInMyPhone:
http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ (by phone:
http://mobile.booksinmyphone.com)
Hundreds of titles, search by title or author, or browse by topic. Download java
files.
TextOnPhone:
http://www.textonphone.com/
Over 30,000 books and novels viewable on the iPhone and iPod.
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.
Chronicling America:
http://www.loc.gov/chroniclingamerica/index.html
Historic American Newspapers: view newspaper
pages from 1897-1910. Scanned images, text, pdf (searchable)
Planet eBook:
http://www.planetebook.com/
A collection of over forty leading classic novels (PDF) - one and two page
layout versions.
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)).
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.
Diesel eBooks Free Collection:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download
Over 750 free e-books representing more than 400 authors, formatted for both
Microsoft Reader (.txt files) and Mobipocket. Includes classic American and
British fiction, U.S. history, children's literature, Shakespeare,
African-American documents and more.
Moon Books Project:
http://moonbooks.net/moonbooks/news.php
eBooks for Nintendo DS device. Over 80 downloadable files, some with multiple
books, mostly classics.
Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain:
http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/
The graphic novel "Bound by Law translates [copyright] law into plain English
and abstract ideas into 'visual metaphors.' So the comic's heroine, Akiko,
brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean 'Rights Monster' - all the
while learning copyright law basics, including the line between fair use and
copyright infringement."
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/
LoudLit: http://www.loudlit.org/
Delivers public domain literature with high quality audio. Read and listen via
web browser or download mp3.
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
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).
Tampa Reads:
http://www.tampareads.com/books-ol/index-ol.htm
Three books (HTML) for 1st Grade readers.
Collins Compendium of Free Online Comic Books:
http://www.lorencollins.net/freecomic/
A wide variety of comics and graphic novels.
9/11 Report:
http://www.slate.com/features/911report/001.html
Graphic novel version of the report from Slate Magazine.
BookBox:
http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuffcat.php
Selected stories from their site are available free as PDF single sheets and as
MP3 files.
Heroes:
http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_library.shtml
The Graphic Novel version of the NBC television show Heroes.
DailyBits:
http://www.dailybits.com/17-sensational-free-and-downloadable-graphic-novels/
Links to seventeen * online/downloadable graphic novels.
Full Story's Graphic Novel Archive:
http://www.twentysevenletters.com/fullstory/?cat=19
Links to a number of online graphic novels including Darkhorse's version of H.
G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
NYC 2123:
http://nyc2123.com/
Graphic novels for the web and PSP.
Dragonbytes.com Library:
http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/
Seven authors of famous classic horror including Poe and Lovecraft (HTML).
Literature Network:
http://www.online-literature.com/
Over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors
(HTML).
LibriVox: http://librivox.org/
free audiobooks from the public domain in mp3 or ogg formats
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.
Motion Mountain Physics:
http://www.motionmountain.net/
Free downloadable physics text book.
Hour of the Wolf Science Fiction Collection:
http://www.hourwolf.com/sfbooks/index.htm
Links to science fiction and fantasy books online.
FreeFullText.com:
http://www.freefulltext.com/
Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all
of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require
free registration).
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
"WAP-enabled" mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/)
for free e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone).
PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/
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.
WellToldTales:
http://welltoldtales.com/
- Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter)
FeedBooks.com:
http://www.feedbooks.com/
Over 1500 texts in a variety of genres (PDF, Sony, iLiad)
Southwestern Classics On-line:
http://www.oldcardboard.com/lsj/olbooks/olb_home.htm
Five classic books about Texas and the Southwest (HTM)
Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature:
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html
Digitized versions of children's books published in Great Britain and the United
States from the early 1700s through the current year (scanned images).
Freeload Press:
http://www.freeloadpress.com/
Textbooks on accounting, economics, education, math, study, and productivity
tools
Rare Book Room:
http://www.rarebookroom.org/
A large number of rare books, available as high resolution photographs or PDF
Flashback Universe:
http://www.flashbackuniverse.com/
Over 7 high quality image comics.
Creative Commons Books:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Books
Over 50 works that are or have
been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
Audiobooks.net:
http://www.audiobooks.net/audiobooks_free.php
22 free audiobooks with registration
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).
Cell Phone Books - information, creation tools,
and library links
Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham:
http://www.lovecraftcountry.com/comic/return/index.php
Comic book set in H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham in 1933. Seth Fletcher has just
journeyed to Arkham, seeking his brother lost years before, but as he will soon
discover, all is not as it seems.
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.
Munseys : Formerly Blackmask:
http://www.munseys.com/
over 20,000 texts in a variety of formats: .lit, .html, .pds, etc.
the Kurt Vonnegut Library:
http://vonnegut.cultish.org/
15 books from the author in PDF, Word, txt, and MP3
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.
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org
Book search tool that searches the catalogs of libraries near you to find the
books that you want to check out and read.
LitSum: http://litsum.com/
Provides literature study guides, chapter summaries and analysis, topics for
discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis (html).
Diesel eBooks:
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=free_download
Over 700 free ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader (LIT)
Also a great tool for anyone with their own home library:
LibraryThing. This is an online
tool for cataloging your books. Site does have a free membership a personal
library of up to 200 books, annual memberships and lifetime membership for
$25 . As a paying member you can have an unlimited number of books in their
library and full functionality of the site.
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