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See also: Computer eBooks | French & Spanish ebooks | Online Education
- SCCHS Library Subscriptions
See librarian for passwords to these services.
- Greenwood Reference Books
References on economics, American history, Catholic literature, and terrorism.
- NetLibrary
Thousands of ebooks in a wide variety of topics.
- Twayne Authors
Six hundred full-text works of literary criticism for online reading.
- Atlantic Online: Fiction and Poetry Pages
New fiction and poetry, and commentary on the classics, from The Atlantic.
- Bartleby.com
"The preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse, providing ... unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge."
- Baen Free Library
Science fiction and fantasy titles offered for free by the publisher.
- Bibliomania: Best online literature and reference books
"Hundreds of searchable full text works of classic fiction, popular fiction, short stories, drama, poetry, dictionaries, research and religious texts."
- Bloomsbury Research Centre
"FREE on-line database of reference books."
- BooksInMyPhone
Free ebooks formatted for reading on java-enabled cellphones.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Includes, nonfiction, fiction, hymns, Bibles, and Bible commentaries.
- CK-12 FlexBooks
Online open source K-12 textbooks in the maths and sciences.
- ClassicReader.com
Contains over 3000 classic books and short stories.
- DailyLit: Read books by email or RSS
"If you are like us, you spend hours each day reading email but don't find the time to read books. DailyLit brings books right into your inbox in convenient small messages that take less than 5 minutes to read."
- Digital Collections
Formerly 'The Electronic Text Center', this collection at the University of Virginia includes tens of thousands of texts in multiple languages, with over a hundred thousand related images.
- Documents & Speeches
SCCHS Library page with links to documents and speeches online.
- E-Books Directory
"A daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet." Directory lists over 1800 documents in nearly 400 categories including fiction, health, computers, math and science, arts, and business.
- Electronic Literature Directory
A descriptive guide to works, authors, and publishers.
- eScholarship Editions
"Almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction." Over a quarter of the collection is fully open to the public.
- The EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
Over 35,000 online texts in the arts and humanities.
- The European Digital Library
"A portal which offers access to the combined resources .... of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some priced."
- Freebook-s
"Download free books in pdf, doc, docx" and other formats.
- Globusz Publishing
Free ebooks from new authors.
- Google Book Search
"When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results. If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text."
- Great PDF
A search engine to find free books in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format on the web.
- The Harvard Classics
"The most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time comprises both the 50-volume “5-foot shelf of books” and the the 20-volume Shelf of Fiction. Together they cover every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject through the twentieth century."
- HippoCampus
"The goal of HippoCampus is to provide high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students free of charge." Includes many online textbooks.
- iBiblio
Extensive index of freely available information and archives on the internet.
- InkMesh
"Find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and more!"
- Internet Archive: Texts
Over a million downloadable open source and Creative Commons licensed texts and ebooks.
- The Internet Classics Archive
"441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, including user-driven commentary and "reader's choice" Web sites. Mainly Greco-Roman works in English translation.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
"The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet."
- ManyBooks.net
"Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader. ... There are 25,129 eBooks available here and they're all free!"
- Memoware
Offers both free and paid ebooks in a variety of formats.
- Nietz Old Textbook Collection
Fascinating collection of hundreds of 19th century schoolbooks.
- The On-Line Books Page
Index to over 25,000 works at other sites, searchable by author, title, or subject. Check the New Books Page to find recent additions.
- PDFGeni
| PDF Search Engine
| PDFse
Search for books and writings in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format.
- Project Gutenberg
As "the first producer of free electronic books" Project Gutenberg offers over 20,000 works in a number of languages; these are mostly older items in the public domain.
- Scribd
"Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents."
- Suvudu Free Library
Random House offers selected books in popular series for free download.
- Textbooks see: Online Education
- The Universal Library
Links to various online collections. From the Carnegie Mellon University Library
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
"Provide quality digital resources from its academic libraries to UW faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large."
- World eBook Library
"The world's largest digital archive of PDF eBooks and eDocuments. Our collection hosts more than 500,000+ PDF eBooks and eDocuments."
- WOWIO
"WOWIO is today the only source where readers can legally download high-quality copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. Readers have access to a wide range of offerings, including works of classic literature, college textbooks, comic books, and popular fiction and non-fiction titles."
Note: Several dedicated ebook readers are mentioned here but many other devices - including laptop, tablet, netbook, PC, PDA, iPod Touch, iPhone, and Blackberry devices (among others) - will play ebooks as well.
- eBook Buyer's Guide to Privacy
A guide to the privacy policies and behaviours of several popular ebook readers. From the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- eReader Guide
"We compare all 16 eBook readers on the market, so you can pick the model best suited to you. If you're new, check out eReader Basics first, or go straight to the Comparison Table below."
- eBook Reader Review: Top Ten Reviews
Links to reviews of this site's top-10 rated ebook readers and a comparison table for handy reference.
- The eReader Explosion: A Cheat Sheet
"Some basic facts and figures about a bunch of major and/or new e-reader competitors in one place." From late October 2009.
- Amazon Kindle
Popular ebook reader allows users access to a library of subscribed materials and rss feeds. Only materials in plain text, unsecure mobipocket, and Amazon's own propriatary format can be natively read on most Kindles; the DX adds .pdf support.
- Barnes & Noble: Nook
Capable of 'lending' ebooks, can read .pdf (but not .doc files) as well as standard epub formats. Easy access to books via Barnes & Noble's online store.
- BeBook
E-Ink device which can play a variety of formats including Secure (DRM) mobipocket, but not Secure .pdf, lit, or epub.
- iRex and iLiad
iRex offers eInk ebook readers with both wireless capability and the ability to upload and download to a PC.
- Sony Reader
Sony offers ebook readers which support a variety of formats, including .pdf, and allow wireless downloading of content.
- Adobe Reader for mobile devices
Software to translate Adobe (.pdf) files into formats readable on mobile devices such as Pocket PC and Palm OS, and the software to install on those devices to read with.
- Documents To Go
Software for Palm, Blackberry, Android, iPhone, and Windows Mobile devices.
- eReader
Free and paid versions of this software are available for Mac, Unix, Windows, Palm, Pocket PC, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows Mobile, and Symbian devices.
- FBReader
Open-source reader for Windows and Linux; it can read ePub, plucker, and non-DRM'd Mobipocket formats, among others.
- iSilo
Popular software for Palm, Pocket PC, Windows CE handhelds, and Windows. The separate iSiloX componant enables the creation of iSilo documents from HTML pages.
- Microsoft Reader
"A free, downloadable software application that allows you to read eBooks on Windows-based devices." Includes both desktop and PDA versions.
- Mobipocket
Reader for desktop, PDA, Symbian, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, and some dedicated ebook readers.
this page last updated February 11, 2010
