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The following 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.
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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/greatsites
700+ SITES for CHILDREN covering Literature and Language many with complete stories.
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 90 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.
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
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).
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.
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 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.
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 .
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.
Perseus Project: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
A digital library of Greek & Latin texts (HTML).
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 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)
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.
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First chapters excerpts
First chapters and excerpts of books available in electronic formats
Amazon http://www.amazon.com
Barnes and Noble http://www.bn.com
Bookspot http://www.bookspot.com/firstchapters.htm
Bookbrowse http://www.bookbrowse.com/
Book First Chapters http://www.cnn.com//books/beginnings/
Mostly Fiction First Chapter Excerpts http://mostlyfiction.com/excerpts.htm
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Children's Libraries
Adapted Books and Materials: http://schools.nycenet.edu/d75/academics/literacy/adaptedbooks/default.htm#titles
Over 70 adapted books in a variety of formats including Boardmaker, PowerPoint, and PDF.
Aesop's Fables: http://www.umass.edu/aesop/contents.html
38 fables in traditional and modern forms. Most in html some in flash.
Amazing Adventure Series: http://www.amazingadventure.com/
Children's stories which can be read on the screen or have read aloud. Has two books in flash format.
arts-entertainment-recreation.com: http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Children's_Literature/Online_Books/
Links to a variety of online children's books.
BAB Books: http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/ Over 12 online html picture book.
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).
BookBox: http://www.bookbox.com/free_stuffcat.php
Selected stories from their site are available free as PDF single sheets and as MP3 files.
BookPals - performing artists for literacy in schools: http://www.bookpals.net/
191 stories read by members of the screen actors guild (and others). Stories are read and displayed through streaming video. Additional story resources are also available including stories by phone and guest story readers for schools.
Book-Pop: http://www.bookpop.com/bookpop.html
12 html picture books with the option to have the book read aloud.
byGosh.com: http://www.bygosh.com/index.html
Children’s classic books in HTML format.
Candlelight Stories: http://www.candlelightstories.com/HelpOFoodMem.htm
Children's and chapter books in a variety of formats.
CBeebies Story Circle: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/storycircle/
Over 80 stories and activity books for preschool children
Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc (formerly Editec Communications' Children's Books for Free library): www.childrensbooksonline.org
1,200 antique children's books published in the 19th and early 20th century in HTML
childrenselibrary.com: http://www.childrenselibrary.com/
An online bookstore for teachers and schools, this company does offer a 30 day trial program to allow teachers to download and use eBooks for use with their classes (lit).
Children's story book online: http://www.magickeys.com/books/
Over 30 illustrated children's stories in html.
Class Conscious Big Books: http://www.classconsciousbooks.com/bigbooks.html
Seventeen young children's stories HTML based.
Clifford's Interactive Storybooks: http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/
Four interactive stories about Clifford the Big Red Dog in flash format, presented by Scholastic.
Digital Gallery of World Picture Books: http://www.kodomo.go.jp/gallery/digi/index_e.html
Collection of over 45 FLASH books from the The International Library of Children's Literature / National Diet Library
Ebooks for Young Readers: http://www.saskschools.ca/~ebooks/
Leveled books in pdf ebook, print, and editable formats.
Fiction Teachers Classroom Theater: http://www.fictionteachers.com/classroomtheater/theater.html
14 reader's theater scripts (html).
Hazardous Weather Books: http://www.floridadisaster.org/kids/teachPlan.htm
Three early elementary Hazardous Weather Readers and Teacher Planning Guides (PDF).
Houghton Mifflin Company' Online Teacher Resources: http://www.eduplace.com/marketing/leveledbooks/sampler/content/index.html
14 leveled reading booklets (K-6) in a special web format, also has associated teacher information.
International Children's Digital Library (ICDL): http://www.icdlbooks.org/
The ICDL is building an international collection that reflects both the diversity and quality of children's literature from 27 cultures in 23 languages (html).
Internet Public Library - KidSpace: http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
This section of IPL contains The Reading Zone which is similar to the fiction section at a public library. There are links to on-line stories and information and links about favorite books and authors.
Kiddie Records Weekly: http://www.kiddierecords.com/
New record each weekl of a “classic” record audio book from the 40’s and 50’s into MP3 format.
KidPub: http://www.kidpub.org/kidpub/
KidPub is an online database collection of over 40,000 stories written by children for children.
Kiz Club: http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html
44 leveled flash books with printable versions
LearningPage.com: www.learningpage.com
Variety of early reader books, mostly in printable (.PDF) and some in web based formats. Free registration required
Lil' Fingers: http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Storybook site for toddler age children (HTML & FLASH).
Lisa Blau's Monthly Script for Reader’s Theatre: http://www.lisablau.com/archives.html
26 reader's theater scripts.
Mighty Book Catalogue: http://www.mightybook.com/catalogue.htm
Over 50 children's books ages 2-preteen in html. Books will read aloud.
NASA Books
Imagers http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/
An online stories Echo the Bat and Amelia the Pigeon in html.
Robin Whirlybird on her Rotorcraft Adventures. http://rotored.arc.nasa.gov
A story and activities of a girl visiting her mother's work: in English, Spanish, and Chinese (HTML)
Our Very Own Star and Auroras! (Flash format) http://stargazer.gsfc.nasa.gov/epo/jsp/products.jsp
Read On - Audio Stories: http://www.beenleigss.eq.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html
Over 150 short stories in flash format with audio.
Reader’s Theater Editions: http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/RTE.html
A collection of free scripts for readers theater, adapted from stories by Aaron Shepard and others.
Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays for the Classroom: http://www.teachingheart.net/readerstheater.htm
Links to over 50 scripts.
Reading A-Z: http://www.readinga-z.com
An online book seller of leveled book that you print out. Sample books are available (pdf).
RIF Reading Planet: http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
A collection of read aloud books that changes monthly (Flash format).
Sebastian Swan's Infant Explorer: http://www.naturegrid.org.uk/infant/
Eight online big books (html).
Sesame Street: http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/sitemap/?sectionId=stories
(flash) Read and make stories
Scholastic Book Clubs Read Aloud Contest: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/contests/winners/readaloud/index.htm
Video stories from the three selected winners.
Scripts from the Reading Lady:
http://www.readinglady.com/index.php?name=Downloads&req=viewdownload&cid=7
Over 45 scripts in .doc and .pdf formats.
Starfall.com: http://www.starfall.com/
Designed for designed for first grade, with over 75 FLASH reading/writing resources that are also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade
Stories from Indonesia: http://www.geocities.com/kesumawijaya/
Seven html text stories.
Storyline Online - from the Screen Actors Guild (SAG): http://www.storylineonline.net/
19 stories read by members of the screen actors guild, including modern classics such as Stellaluna and the Polar Express. Stories are read and displayed through streaming video.
StoryPlace Elementary Library: http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp
6 stories for elementary children along with suggested readings and print out activities.
StoryPlace PreSchool Library: http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp
15 Stories and associated books and activities for children and parents.
Stories to Read Online: http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/storiesontheweb/storiesontheweb.html
Links to about 100 stories for early childhood and elementary
Tales of Wonder: http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/index.html
Folk and fairy tales from around the world in HTML.
Tampa Reads: http://www.tampareads.com/books-ol/index-ol.htm
Three books (HTML) for 1st Grade readers.
United States of America's Korean War Commemoration: http://korea50.army.mil/teachers/index.shtml
Has two online picture books (html).
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Book Notes
BookRags" http://www.bookrags.com/index.html
Book notes and over 1500 novels (HTML) available.
GradeSaver: http://www.gradesaver.com/
Book notes, study guides, and electronic versions of texts for a lot of texts.
LitSum: http://litsum.com/
Provides literature study guides, chapter summaries and analysis, topics for discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis (html).
Owleyes: http://www.owleyes.org/
Offers help with understanding and writing about 12 famous literary works
Pink Monkey: http://pinkmonkey.com/
Once all free, now mixed, download summaries or study guides of literature (PDF) .
SparkNotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/
From Barns & Noble, SparkNotes (like Cliff Notes) offers help in understanding literature for free online.
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eBook Search Engines
- SearcheBooks http://www.searchebooks.com/
SearcheBooks searches multiple fulltext book sites
eBookLocator: http://www.ebooklocator.com/
Search database of thousands of books.
eBook Searchr: http://ebooksearchr.googlepages.com/
Specialized Google search tool.
Digital Reading Search: http://search.digitalreading.net/
Another specialized Google Custom Search tool
Online Books Search Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html
Search from over 20,000 listings.
Digital Book Index: http://www.digitalbookindex.com/search001a.htm
index for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites
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Foreign Language Libraries
Antologia della Letteratura Italiana: http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
Italian: Novels, poetry, plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary, in HTML, for reading online.
Aozora Bunko: http://www.aozora.gr.jp
Over 2000 works of Japanese literature. Formats include: HTML, ZIP, and Japanese e-book.
Athena Texts Francais: http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/
French: 10,000 eBooks (French & Swiss Authors) Literature, philosophy, history, economics, & science, etc.
Belarusian e-Library: http://knihi.com
Belarusian literature in Belarusian, with some English, German & other translations.
Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France): http://gallica.bnf.fr
French: Over 2500 digitized works.
Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro: http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.html?principal.html&2
Portuguese: Several hundred eBooks
Brasilian e-books: http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional
Portuguese: Over sixty free titles from 26 authors, including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Formats include Word, PDF, RTF and Palm PDB.
Digital Library of India: http://www.dli.ernet.in/
Indian: Over 29,000 books predominantly in Indian languages.
Gottingen State & University Library, Germany: http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml
German: Approximately 4500 eBooks titles, primarily in German, French, & English, devoted mostly to Exploration & Travel Literature & Mathematics. (The English-Language titles are indexed)
Libros Tauro (Argentina): http://www.librostauro.com.ar/
Spanish: Several thousand eBooks
New Threads Chinese Cultural Society: http://www.xys.org
Chinese: Electronic library archive of Chinese classic texts.
ngiyaw eBooks ( German): http://ngiyaw-ebooks.org/
German works with some classic English and Hungarian books also. Formats include: (.pdf), (.prc), (.lit), (.tr), and (HTML) for your Web browser.
Online Books Page Links to Foreign Language Libraries: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#foreign
Links to over seventy foreign language libraries with languages ranging from Afghan to Czech, French to Russian, Latin to Yiddish.
Ozoz: http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm
Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available formats: HTML ; RTF; TXT.
Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy: http://www.rusf.ru
books available online here, in both Russian & English in ZIP and HTML formats.
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Other Books
9/11 Report: http://www.slate.com/features/911report/001.html
Graphic novel version of the report from Slate Magazine.
Artbomb.net: http://www.artbomb.net/comics.jsp#
Has five graphic novels
Centaur girl: http://www.centaurgirl.com/graphic_novel_store/faq.php
Graphic novel (free registration required)
Collins Compendium of Free Online Comic Books: http://www.lorencollins.net/freecomic/
A wide variety of comics and graphic novels.
Comics.com: http://www.unitedmedia.com/categories/index.html Over 88 newspaper comic strips archived for the last 30 days.
DailyBits: http://www.dailybits.com/17-sensational-free-and-downloadable-graphic-novels/
Links to seventeen * online/downloadable graphic novels.
Flashback Universe: http://www.flashbackuniverse.com/
Over 7 high quality image comics.
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.
Heroes: http://www.nbc.com/Heroes/novels/novels_library.shtml
The Graphic Novel version of the NBC television show Heroes. Download/Video/Online.
History of Violence : http://www.historyofviolence.com/graphic_novel/HoV_01-11.pdf
First chapter of graphic novel.
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.
Newspapers on the Internet: http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/info/Newspapers.html
Listing of newspapers from around the world that can be read online.
Next Gen Books: http://nextgenbooks.com/
Graphic and interactive novels site:
NYC 2123: http://nyc2123.com/
Graphic novels for the web and PSP.
Serial Novels:
Fledgling ( http://www.korval.com/fledgling/) - a novel from the Liaden Universe® by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.
Hunt for the Dymalon Cygnet (http://www.readersadvice.com/mmeade/scatwlds/sponsor.html) - a Serial Novel in the Scattered Worlds universe by Don Sakers.
The Big Meow (http://www.the-big-meow.com/) - by Diane Duane.
The Vondish Ambassador (http://www.ethshar.com/thevondishambassador0.html)- Novel in the Ethshar series by Lawrence Watt-Evans
Slate: http://slate.msn.com/
An online magazine that is also published as an eBook
UComics.com: http://www.ucomics.com/comics/ Over 60 daily newspaper comic strips.
Vertigo: http://www.dccomics.com/graphic_novels/?cat=VERTIGO
Links provide PDF versions of the first issue of these classic Vertigo series in graphic novel form. Go to the Graphic Novels section of VertigoComics.com, any graphic novel titles with a #1 icon (
) will have a download of the ground-breaking first issue (some adult themes/issues)
WOWIO: http://www.wowio.com/index.asp
EBooks, including comics and graphic novels, available in PDF format.
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Research Tools
Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org “organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.”
Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com users can simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia,
Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com has full-text documents and images concerning: magazines, maps, books and reports, newspapers and newswires, radio, TV and government transcripts, and pictures.
ElectricLibrary's Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com more than 14,000 free articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.).
Encarta Online: http://encarta.msn.com/
An abridged online version of Encarta Encyclopedia. Search the article titles or the full text.
Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq A resource for teachers and students with thousands of sources on hundreds of topics.
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).
Information Please http://www.infoplease.com Offers online almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries (links under “Sources”).
The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org a resource for a variety of collections.
Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
The U.S. Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov Web site is the Internet location of the largest library in the world. Comprised of approximately 115 million items in virtually all formats, languages, and subjects.
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.
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Teacher Books
ASCD Full-Text Books http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.efa1a11d6de55b8cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/
Four complete books on education and educational issues. Book chapters are also available from ASCD at http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.7ecb0460a2b144dd12c7c91061a001ca/
Athabasca University's Centre for Distance Education: http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/
Theory and Practice of Online Learning, edited by Terry Anderson and Fathi Elloumi,
CAST http://www.cast.org/products/
Has an excellent book on universal access/technology and education with enriched with multimedia examples of UDL as well a number of interactive tutorials, tools and templates. Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age
EDUCAUSE http://www.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=5989&bhcp=1
Produces an eBook titles Educating the Net Generation. This book explores the aptitudes, attitudes, expectations, and learning styles of Net Gen students. This book explores the Net Gen and the implications for institutions in areas such as teaching, service, learning space design, faculty development, and curriculum. Contributions by educators and students are included.
Freeload Press: http://www.freeloadpress.com/
Textbooks on accounting, economics, education, math, study, and productivity tools
National Academy Press http://www.nap.edu/browse.html
Has over 2000 professional books (including an education section) which can be read online.
National Institute for Literacy http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/publications.html
Online books on reading, including Put Reading First: The Research Building Blocks for Teaching Children to Read.
StenhousePublishers: http://www.stenhouse.com/books.asp
Allows PDF previews of selected books on-line. Our new titles are posted on-line in their entirety for six months.
teachLEARNING: http://www.techlearning.com/content/epubs/index.php
Nine eBooks about integrating technology into the classroom (PDF and FLASH formats).
Textbook Revolution: http://textbookrevolution.org/
Free textbooks, most of which are in the sciences. Some for viewing online, others may be printed and/or downloaded.
Wikibooks Portal: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks_portal
A collection of free, open-content textbook. (HTML). Teacher books: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Education_bookshelf
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Audio Books and Podcasts
Americana Phonic: http://www.americanaphonic.com/Index.html
Eight audiobooks including Common Sense and the Federalist Papers
Audiobooks for Free: http://www.audiobooksforfree.com
Classic titles to be downloaded including fiction, fact, and children's books
Audiobooks.net: http://www.audiobooks.net/audiobooks_free.php
22 free audiobooks with registration
Audiobooks.org: http://www.audiobooks.org/
Four audiobooks for free, including the Red Badge of Courage.
Apple iTunes: http://www.apple.com/itunes/
Search for audiobooks - many are free.
Babblebooks audio: http://www.babblebooks.com/shopping/shoppodcasts.asp
Over 50 free audiobooks.
BMW Audiobooks: http://www.bmw-audiobooks.com/
Four short story audiobooks with a car as part of the theme
Bookshare.org: http://www.bookshare.org
Digital book forms, to be read with a variety of reading devices and software programs. U.S. residents; must have a qualifying disability: visual impairments and blindness, reading disabilities, or physical impairments that make it difficult or impossible to read printed books.
Candlelight Stories: http://www.candlelightstories.com/Stories.asp
Audiobooks including: Pirate Jack and Robinson Crusoe
Childrens Book Radio: http://childrensbookradio.com/
ejunto - Historical and Philosophical Audio Books: http://www.ejunto.com/
History and philosophy audio books (mp3 format). Categories range from Plato to Karl Marx, and famous American figures.
Free Classic Audio Books: http://freeclassicaudiobooks.com/
Classic books in audio format (mp3 and m4b), some books are human narrated, others are quality text-to-speech voices.
Griddlecakes Radio: http://www.griddlecakes.com/
Mostly short stories in audio format.
LibriVox: http://librivox.org/
free audiobooks from the public domain in mp3 or ogg formats
Literal Systems: http://literalsystems.org/abooks/index.php/Site/Titles
Over fifteen titles including Tale of Two Cities.
Lit2Go: http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/index.htm
From the Florida Educational Technology Clearinghouse.
PennSound: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/
A digital poetry archive project, committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives of modern poems and classic works including Homer and Chaucer (MP3).
Podiobooks: http://podiobooks.com/
Poets on Poets: http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/poets/toc.html
A MP3 audio archive of Romantic-period poems selected and read by practicing poets from around the world.
Public Domain Podcast: http://publicdomainpodcast.blogspot.com/
Simply Audiobooks: http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com/Free_Audiobooks/dp/202/
Free audiobook each month (with free subscription).
The Spoken Alexandria Project: http://www.spokenalex.org/
Creative Commons library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission). AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 audiobooks
Storynory: http://storynory.com/archives/
WellToldTales: http://welltoldtales.com/
- Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter)
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If you find any other worthwhile free e-book sites (for educational uses) that I haven't mentioned - please feel free to contact me with their name and address (URL): mailto:terry@drscavanaugh.org
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