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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! (Fall 2012)

Open Library: http://openlibrary.org
A service from the Internet Archive that provides access to over one million ebooks (classics to current novels) adapted for persons have print disabilities. Older books are available though the Internet Archive’s unencrypted DAISY library and modern books can be accessed by users how have a Library of Congress’ National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) key (available through application: http://www.loc.gov/nls/signup.html).

Summerside Kindergarten Bedtime Stories: http://www.summersidekindergarten.org/bedtime-stories/
A collection of short videos of stories read by the school staff from Edinburgh, UK.

 Room 108 Kids Stories: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108b.html
Online stories with animation and sound for younger children. Many stories have a self grading quiz at the end.

 CBeebies Story Time: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/page/all
Over 120 K-PreK stories read aloud and animated.

 Story Before Bed: http://www.astorybeforebed.com/
Two free stories read by the authors – Spike in the City by Paulette Bogan and The Night Before Thanksgiving by Phyllis Porter Turner. An additional story – the Itsy Bitsy Spider is also available for student to narrate and record for preview.

Conrad First: http://www.conradfirst.net/conrad/home 
Open access archive of the initial serialized version of the works of Joseph Conrad.

School Sparks: http://www.schoolsparks.com/kindergarten-worksheets/
Homeschool/early learning/Kindergarten learning books (PDF): Fun Math for Young Learners; Early Writing for Little Hands; Stepping Stones for Early Readers

• http://www.schoolsparks.com/assets/ebooks/stepping-stones-for-early-readers.pdf
• http://www.schoolsparks.com/assets/ebooks/early-writing-for-little-hands.pdf
• http://www.schoolsparks.com/assets/ebooks/all-children-can-be-great-listeners.pdf
• http://www.schoolsparks.com/assets/ebooks/fun-math-for-young-learners.pdf

We Give Books: http://www.wegivebooks.org/
Over 200 fiction and non-fiction picture books from Pearson (Penguin and DK).

Project aims to remove barriers to open textbooks
Officials hope to address key questions, such as how to ensure the books are of high quality.  Currently UMN has an open textbook library of 90 books covering areas including business, economics, humanities, mathematics, and social, natural, and physical sciences.

Univ of Minnesota – Open Academics Textbook Catalog: https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/

Academic Commons (http://www.academiccommons.org/)

• Academic Commons is dedicated to the development of free web-based resources for academic professionals focusing on liberal arts education via digital tools.
• The news aggregator showcases current developments and projects in the open education community.

AcademicPub (http://www.academicpub.sharedbook.com/)

• AcademicPub is a build-your-own-textbook service that offers students three different options for purchasing the book: digital download, paperback, or hardcover.
• Instructors can create a customized textbook with book chapters, case studies and journal articles.
• AcademicPub provides services to track how much royalties will cost for each custom textbook.

Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (http://oerconsortium.org/)

• The CCCOER collects open access resources for the creation of textbook alternatives, in addition to open content repositories and developmental tools.
• Access to over 500 open texbooks, as well as a useful guide to creating and implementing your own open access textbook.

Connexions (http://cnx.org)

• Connexions contains educational materials for everyone - from children to college students to professionals - organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger collections or courses
• All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons attribution license

Flat World Knowledge (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com)

• Provides a new approach to college textbooks offering rigorously reviewed textbooks online free of cost to students.
• Offers full-text online for free and in a variety of affordable formats.

InTech (http://www.intechweb.org/.com)

• A multidisciplinary Open Access publisher of books and journals covering the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine.
• InTech as published more than 850 Open Access books, and provides support services for faculty who wish to publish a book or journal and make it available via Open Access.

MedEdPORTAL (http://services.aamc.org)

• Free online peer-reviewed publication service for medical resources such as teaching materials, assessment tools and faculty development.
• Promotes educational collaboration through the open exchange of scholarly educational resources.
• Users can download and utilize any and all of the published resources for educational purposes without legal infringements.

MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/melot/index.html)

• A free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education
• Links to online learning materials are collected here along with assignments and comments to enhance the teaching experience of an exercise

NanoHUB (http://nanohub.org)

• Provides over 1600 open teaching and learning resources: online presentations; course material; learning modules; podcasts; simulation tools.
• Created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology

OER Commons: Open Textbooks (http://www.oercommons.org/)

• This catalog contains hundreds of college-level open textbooks from higher education institutions around the world.

Ohio Digital Bookshelf Project (http://ohiodigitalbookshelf.ning.com/)

• A pilot project for the Ohio Textbook HQ, the Ohio Digital Bookshelf aims to provide inexpensive higher-ed textbooks.
• Free registration required to view textbooks.

Open Courseware Consortium (http://www.ocwconsortium.org)

• Free and open digital publication of high quality educational materials, organized as courses.
• A collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a board and deep body of open educational content using a shared model.

Open KSA (http://knowlton.osu.edu/open/about.asp)

• Digital course material made freely available by the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University 

Open Textbook Catalog ( https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/)

• A catalog of open access textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members, made available by the University of Minnesota's College of Education and Human Development.
• All textbooks in this catalog are openly licenses, complete, and available in print at very little cost.

SmARThistory (http://smarthistory.org/)

•  A free and open, online, not-for-profit art history textbook with complete multimedia content. 

Student PIRGs: Open Textbooks (http://www.studentpirgs.org)

• A catalog of information about some of the top examples of open college textbooks, offered online under a license allowing free digital access and inexpensive print options. Material can be easily modified to fit your needs.
• Subjects covered: Accounting & Finance; Business, Management & Marketing; Computer Science & Information Systems; Economics; General Education; Humanities & Language; Mathematics & Statistics; Natural & Physical Sciences; Social Sciences.

Textbook Media (http://www.textbookmedia.com/)

• Offers a number of e-Textbooks sorted by author and topic
• All of the textbooks can be downloaded for free and many of them can be purchased in print form

Textbook Revolution (http://textbookrevolution.org/)

• A student-run site dedicated to increasing the use of free educational materials by teachers and professors
• The approach is to bring all of the free textbooks they can find together in one place, review them, and let the best rise to the top and find their way into the hands of students in classrooms around the world

The Global Text Project (http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/)

• A free library of thousands of texts for students in a range of topics covered in a university undergraduate program
• Join venture between the Terry College of Business of the University of Georgia and the Daniels College of Business of the University of Denver.
• Individual book chapters can be opened and modified to fit your own needs.

WikiEducator (http://wikieducator.org/Main_Page) 

• An evolving online community intended for the planning of education projects linked with the development of free content and the development of free content on WikiEducator for free learning.

World Lecture Hall (http://wlh.webhost.utexas.edu/about/index.cfm)

• Includes links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver course materials in any language.

epubBooks:  http://www.epubbooks.com
Over 600 public domain texts in the EPUB format.

Kids4Classics: http://kids4classics.com/
Over 40 classic book in PDF and chapter HTM formats.

Read to Me: http://www.readtomelv.com/current-books/
12 Video books (no text) including Duck Soup and Fancy Nancy read by Vegas personalities (flash)

 National Geographic Young Explorer: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngyoungexplorer/moreissues.html
National Geographic ezine – flash turn page with audio support.

 The Secret in the Cellar: http://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/XPlayer.html
Graphic/web comic novel (mystery) from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, also available in HTML and PDF.

 Storynory: http://storynory.com/
Audio stories for children. New story each week.  

 Online Audio Stories: http://www.onlineaudiostories.com/
Classic children’s stories in audio format for online play – text is provided.

 Story Cove: http://www.storycove.com/
The collection contains 22 leveled picture books with folktales from around the world and two read along story books.

 Kids Space Hear A Story: http://kidsspace.torontopubliclibrary.ca/genStoryArchive_All_1.html
From the Toronto Public Library a collection of over 100  audio narrations from children’s books in different languages.  Additonal a virtual edition of Barbara Reid’s the Party is available (http://media.torontopubliclibrary.ca/virtualbook/48/)

 Enoch Pratt Free Library: http://www.prattlibrary.org/home/storyIndex.aspx
Over 60 stories told by storytellers of national and regional renown representing diverse cultures.

 Smories: http://www.smories.com/
Original stories for children, read by children.

Chicago’s’  eMediaLibrary – Pubic Domain: http://emedialibrary.lib.overdrive.com/E53574D9-74BD-4705-97D2-82E4A6533EBA/10/384/en/PublicDomainCollection.htm
A collection of over 34000 titles in the public domain for download (ePub)

Ebooks in Spanish: http://espanol.free-ebooks.net/
A subsection of free-ebooks.net, with a collection of books in espanol.

British Library Virtual Books:  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/virtualbooks/viewall/index.html#A collection of over 25 books, artworks, and music manuscripts based on scans of the works from the British Library that are displayed using the library’s “Turning the Pages” system to view, magnify, and even have the books read aloud. 

Read with Me eBooks: http://readwithme.cast.org/
These 16 books from the CAST collection provide instructional approach guides parents and teachers in ways to talk with children when they read storybooks together. (flash)

DripRead: http://www.dripread.com
 Book serialization by email (EPUB). Choose from the over 125 books available or upload your own book to be delivered as a serial book.

Dust Echoes: http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/
A collection of aboriginal stories presented as text and short movies.

BookBox: http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuff.php?cat=mp3
18 audiobooks (MP3) for children available in a variety of languages available for download.

HighlightsKids.com: http://highlightskids.com/Stories/audioStories/audioStory_Top.asp
Nine animated stories with audio support.

PlaytimeBooks: http://www.playtime-books.com/Individual-Download-Page-Addresses/special-offer.htm
14 free children’s audiobooks (MP3) for download in zipped format.

Speakaboos: http://www.speakaboos.com/stories/favorites
120 stores presented a videos, includes a good number of Arthur stories read by the author.

Chest of Books: http://chestofbooks.com/
Visit this site to access hundreds of free nonfiction books. A wide range of topics are available.

K12 Handhelds Ebooks: http://k12opened.com/ebooks/
Collections of non-fiction ebooks, in multiple formats, for English Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, and Science, for elementary and middle school levels. 

Free-Ebooks.net: http://www.free-ebooks.net
Subscription site that allows limited downloads of fiction and nonfiction on a monthly basis for the free account. Ebooks are available for reading online or downloading as PDF, TXT, MOBI, and ePub. 

Free Books for You: http://www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/freebooksforyou.html  
A collection of over 30 assessable books in a variety of formats (including PPT) from Special Education Technology British Columbia

PowerPoint Books: http://www.fimcvi.org/resources/powerpoint-books/
A collection of 16 assessable books from the Florida Instructional Materials Center for the Visually Impaired. 

Speech & Language PowerPoint Books: https://sites.google.com/site/autumndgb/powerpoints
A collection of PowerPoint books created for a variety of speech, language, and academic concepts. 

Story Seeking: http://storyseeking.com/

CAST UDL Book Builder’s Pubic Library: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php
A collection of books created by individuals that are shared. Books were created using CAST’s Book Builder program to create the book, but books are readable using a standard browser running Java. Books can also be printed and downloaded. Book collection has over 2000 books, which are categorized by grade level, content area, and genre. In addition to the Public Library section there are the UDL Editions which has seven books presented in three reading levels with prompts, accommodations, and interactions, for ages 10 and up (http://udleditions.cast.org/)
 
Tar Heel Reader:http://tarheelreader.org/
books for beginning readers in PowerPoint, Impress or Flash formats. 

Talking Book Library: http://talkingbooklibrary.net
Books done in PowerPoint for Primary, Intermediate and Middle-High school levels, also broken up into subject areas.  

Talking Storybooks from Piory Woods School: http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Talking+Story+Books&pid=75  

FDLRS Region 2 Digital Lending Library of PowerPoint Activities:  http://region2library.org/ppa.htm
Over 35 ppt books for younger and older students along with links to 17 more PowerPoint books 

GenieBooks in PowerPoint: http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurrag1/bookindex.html  
Decodable books for beginning readers in HTML or PPT, with books identified by phonic.  

Adapted Books and Materials (NYC): http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/District75/Departments/Literacy/AdaptedBooks/default.htm
Over 70 adapted books in a variety of formats including Boardmaker, PowerPoint, and PDF.  

Community Audio: http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_audio
Audios contributed to the Internet Archive under the Creative Commons License.  Samples include Watership Down, Treasure Island, 1984, and the Little Princess – many are from LibriVox, but there are others. 

Online Storytime: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/storytime/
Barnes & Nobel presents over 14 picture books read by authors and celebrities presented as online streaming video. Books include such works as The Very Hungry Caterpillar read by Eric Carle and Green Eggs and Ham read by Rachel Ray. 

Bookbuilder - Now in Spanish: http://bookbuilder.cast.org/
CAST's Bookbuilder, a free tool for creating digital books that include UDL features, is now available in Spanish. Just go to the Bookbuilder home page and choose the language you want to work in English or Español in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Leonardo’s Notebook: http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/leonardo/leonardo_broadband.htm?middle 
Great interactive application with audio instruction that lets you explore one of the notebooks of Leonardo in the British Museum.

Bangladesh Textbooks: www.ebook.gov.bd/ 
This sites hosts e-book version of textbooks of the primary (33) and secondary levels (73).  The books were created by the Access to Information (A2I) Project of the PM's Office and the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB). Textbooks will now be available on its website (http:// www.ebook.gov.bd). All including students, teachers, parents, guardians and researchers can now enter the website and read the textbooks free of cost

MeeGenius: http://www.meegenius.com/store/books/free/ 
a collection of 6 familiar books meant for younger students available for free. Excellent option is that you can personalize the books, meaning you can input other names for the characters. Book is displayed in Flash and there is an option to have the book read aloud with synchronized highlighting.

iWriteIt: http://iwriteit.com/ 
Collection of eBook stories on a site developed provide a portal for aspiring writers to get their work out to the public, get it read and hopefully get some feedback. (TXT, EPUB, MOBI, FB2, PDB, PDF formats).

One Manga: http://www.onemanga.com/ 
Over a thousand different Manga to be read online.

MangaFox: http://www.mangafox.com/
Manga presented by volume and chapter to be read online

Anime Eden: http://www.anime-eden.com/manga/index.htm
Anime videos and mange series for online viewing.

AnimeA: http://manga.animea.net/
Manga presented by chapter for online reading.

Ebookfling: http://ebookfling.com 
Ebook sharing club for Kindle and Nook ebooks. Lenders earn one credit for every five books they list for others to borrow and a credit for each book loaned.

Booklending.com: http://booklending.com/ 
Kindle ebook sharing club.

EMagazines:
Here are some educational journal sites from publishers and organizations provide free online content, including articles and media about current events, some of which are generated by students themselves.  

• Time for Kids: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids/news
• Weekly Reader: http://www.weeklyreader.com/subcategory/74
• National Geographic Kids: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
• Science News for Kids: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Little Bird Tales: http://littlebirdtales.com/  
online books can be made of student artwork or photos, write and then record audio.

PrimaryAccess: http://primaryaccess.org/ 
PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.

Myths and Legends from E2BN: http://myths.e2bn.org/ 
Site for students and teachers for stories and storytelling.

Comic Master: http://www.comicmaster.org.uk/ 
Allows users to create their own short graphic novels.

Read free books online: http://www.bookrix.com/ 
Flash page turn versions of books written by non-professionals. There are also a number of audiobooks available. Has a children's book section.

Kids Open Dictionary Builder: http://dictionary.k12opened.com/index.php 
Dictionary tool that allows for building and then downloading to use with different ebook devices.

Books Should Be Free – Children’s Audio section: http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/genre/Children
Over 120 children’s audio books

The Color.com: http://www.thecolor.com/ 
Free online coloring book.

Coloring.com: http://www.coloring.com/ 
Free online coloring book

KidsWWwrite: http://www.kalwriters.com/kidswwwrite/ 
Online anthology for young authors and readers (under 16).

Absolutely Whootie: http://www.storiestogrowby.com/ 
Myths and fables from around the world, with adventures, animal tales - also has reader's theater scripts.

Kids Corner: http://www.wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm 
Wired for books kids section with works by Beatrix Potter, extras include audio versions of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the Frog Prince, A Christmas Carol, and Kipling’s Just So Stories.

MysteryNet’s Kids Mysteries: http://kids.mysterynet.com/ 
Quick online reads for kids to solve mysteries. Also the site has mysteries written by kids.

MightyBook: http://www.mightybook.com/ 
Designed for children (aged 2-12 years), site has read-aloud stories that kids can listen to and read along with.

Story Book Online: http://www.storybookonline.net/ 
Storybook Online Network is a storytelling community for children. Site goal is to create, develop, and disseminate original short stories for children. Content is in written, audio, animated, and video presentations.

Story Book Castle: http://www.storybookcastle.com/ 
Read online stories from Aesop’s Fables and Fairy Tales, the site also have a few stories with pictures and multiple stories can be translated into other languages.

FreeKindleBooks.org: http://freekindlebooks.org/ 
Free Kindle Books offers 1000s of Free Classic E-books (below) in Kindle-compatible MOBI and PRC formats. Picture books version does have the actual pictures (unlike the kindle store).

The Free Online Library: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ 
The Free Library has free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Read online.

StoryJumper: http://www.storyjumper.com/ 
Online tool to create and read stories with online text and images.

Little Bird Tales:  http://www.littlebirdtales.com/ 
Online tool to write, draw, and narrate stories. Existing stories can be read online (FLASH).

Lokata Legends: http://www.aktalakota.org/index.cfm?cat=54&artid=136 
Links to 17 Native American/First Nations legends, or folk tales if you prefer. You won't see these anywhere else online. From the Acta Lakota Museum at St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota.

Bembo’s Zoo: http://www.bemboszoo.com/ 
Animated site to children their ABCs

Cbeebies: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/ 
Children’s story site to watch and read along to stories.

ZOOMplayhouse: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/playhouse/ 
Collection of reader’s theater scripts from PBS Kids

Cyberdchase: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/web_adventures.html 
Animated webisodes to read.

Literature for Children: http://palmm.fcla.edu/juv/index.shtml 
A collection of over 1600 children's literature titles from the US and UK presented by the State University Libraries of Florida.

iWriteIt: http://www.iwriteit.com 
I Write It is a site for downloading books written primarily for use in e-reader devices such as the Amazon Kindle. Formats for books include TXT, EPUB, MOBI, FB@, PDB, and PDF.

Free-eBooks.net: http://www.free-ebooks.net/

47 categories of  books in HTML, PDF, Mobipocket, and ePub formats.

Amazon.com Free Book Collections: http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_193569822_4?ie=UTF8&node=2245146011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_r=0N9WDBTPSMDSZAQ3E5NB&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1259181822&pf_rd_i=1286228011

Free classics, out of copyright, pre-1923, and limited-time promotional books in Kindle format.

Search tools:

Free Books Spot: http://www.freebookspot.in/

Free newspaper apps for the iPad:

• USA Today's iPad app: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/usa-today-for-ipad/id364257176?mt=8 
  Provides four key stories across the top of the front page and lets you flick through a long list of stories - offering the headline and intro as well as a photo.
• The New York Times: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/nyt-editors-choice/id357066198?mt=8 
   Offers News, Business, Technology, Opinion and Features sections (not the full paper, just the "Editor's Choice")
• Financial Times app:  http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/financial-times-ipad-edition/id370723705?mt=8
  Provides a front page, letting you scroll down through the intros of at least a dozen stories, including video reports.
• The Wall Street Journal's app: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/the-wall-street-journal/id364387007?mt=8
  Provides Front Page, What's News, Opinion, Marketplace, Money & Investing, Personal Journal or Greater New York.

PBS Kids mobile apps: http://pbskids.org/mobile/apps.html 
Variety of interactive ebooks for the iPad, iPhone ,and iPod Touch.

Textbooks for Free: http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
Text books site related to technology

NCERT Textbooks: http://www.ncert.nic.in/textbooks/testing/Index.htm
for India look in the English teaching section for all grade levels for some good books (PDF format)

Booksshouldbefree.com: http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/ 
Text (html & txt) and audio (.mp3) versions of books for download or reading online. (usually from audio Gutenberg.org or Librivox.org)

AudioOwl: http://www.audioowl.com 
Free public domain audio books in a variety of formats (MP3, iPod, iTunes). (usually from audio Gutenberg.org or Librivox.org)

epubBooks: http://www.epubbooks.com 
Hundreds of books available in the ebook open web standard format – epub.

 Open Book Project: http://openbookproject.net/
Students and teachers will find quality, free textbooks and materials here.

BookBoon.com: http://bookboon.com/us/student
Students can download free textbooks, from economics to biology to study abroad here.

Trail Blazing from the Royal Society: http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/ 
60 articles chosen the Royal Society's journals (html, PDF)

Panjab Digital Library: http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/mainpage.jsp
Panjab Digital Library represents an effort to preserve and make accessible the rich heritage of Panjab through digitization. Books magazines, newspapers, and photos related to the Sikhs and the Indian region o Panjab.

New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (http://www.nzetc.org/)
Free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. (HTML, XML, ePub)

CK-12: http://about.ck12.org/

CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning.

Classics2Go: http://www.classics2goapp.com/ 
iPhone Lite reader and additional books are free. $0.99 for full version of reader with 47 books.

eBook Search Queen: http://www.ebook-search-queen.com/

search engine for ebooks and documents in pdf, doc, ppt, txt and rtf formats

WOWIO Mobile: http://wowio.com/mobile

iPhone, iPod Touch, a recent BlackBerry, or a Google Android-based phone,* you can now have the entire WOWIO library in your pocket.

Free-eBooks.net: http://free-ebooks.net
Access thousands of e-books free of charge. PDF and Mobi (.PRC) format. Registration required (free).

Truly Free.org: http://www.truly-free.org/ 
collection of books in .doc format

LearnOutLoud: http://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video#directory

Over 500 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other Browse over 15,000 educational audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and videos. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.
 

Read Print http://www.readprint.com/ 
A free online library that offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

Newbery Honor Books and Medal Winners: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/_collections/newbery/newbery.html
Nine award winning books by women authors from the 20's though the 60's.

Inkless Tales: http://www.inklesstales.com/stories/
Variety of early reader/emeregent and dolch stories.  

Light Up Your  Brain: http://lightupyourbrain.com/ 
18 Children's stories read aloud.

World Digital Library: http://www.wdl.org/en/
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

Harlequin Free Romance:  http://www.harlequincelebrates.com/ 
As part of Harlequin’s 60^th anniversary you can get 16 free romance novels from eHarlequin online.

Infinity Studio Flip Books: http://www.infinitystudios.com/read.php  

18 different manga series available as online flip books.

Kindle Store: http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1238005750/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=154606011&sort=price&bbn=154606011&rh=n%3A133140011%2Cn%3A!133141011%2Cn%3A154606011&page=1

Amazon does have free books for the Kindle reading device.

Google Books: http://books.google.com 
has lots of public domain books in PDF and txt formats.  

Google Books Mobile: http://books.google.com/m

Google’s version of books for the web enabled cell phone.

Wattpad Mobile: http://m.wattpad.com/

Wattpad: http://www.wattpad.com/

Wattpad ebooks are uploaded by community members and include: stories, essays, jokes, etc. Can be read on a computer or mobile phone. Ebooks are in a plain text or html format.

Snee: http://www.snee.com/epubkidsbooks/
16 free epub children's picture books

Sony Classic Books from Google: http://ebookstore.sony.com/google-ebooks/?in_merch=Homepage_Google_ePub_Rt_1
500,000 public domain books for the Sony Reader

Tar Heel Reader: http://tarheelreader.org/
Easy to read and accessible books for beginning teenaged readers.

GenieBooks in PowerPoint: http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurrag1/bookindex.html 
Decodable books for beginning readers in HTML or PPT, with books identified by phonic 
 

Nintendo DS 100 Classic Book Collection: http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/nds/100_classic_book_collection_10234.html
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - the iconic opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. Well, now you can definitely enjoy the best of times with Mr Dickens and scores of his fellow writers with the 100 Classic Book Collection on Nintendo DS!

British Library Online Gallery: http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html 
Digitized original classics. An audio feature allows a visitor to have the book read aloud (original version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground,  Mozart's Musical Diary includes 75 audio excerpts).  

Lookybook: http://www.lookybook.com/ 
A picture book collection that uses a flash display to show the entire book, but has no option for zooming or enlarging. Users are able to create their own bookshelves from the extensive collection (over 300 books).

Connexions – Open Source Textbooks: http://cnx.org/ 
a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

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.