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Free eBooks and Audio Books
Free e-Textbooks
Retail eBooks
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eBook Readers |
Computer eBooks |
French & Spanish ebooks
- Subscription eBooks
SCCHS library has subscriptions to these services; see librarian for passwords.
- ABCL-CLIO 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.
- Audio Books for Free Audio
"MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics, children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.) for you to download and enjoy. Every audio book produced and recorded by professional actors/narrators and experienced directors."
- 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.
- BooksShouldBeFree Audio
"BooksShouldBeFree makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way."
- 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.
- Ejunto Audio
"ejunto is a not-for-profit corporation ... with the mission of bringing quality historical and philosphical audiobooks to the public domain."
- Electronic Literature Directory
A descriptive guide to works, authors, and publishers.
- 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: Audio Audio
"This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users."
- Internet Archive: Texts
Over two 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."
- LibraVox Audio
"LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books."
- Lit2Go Audio
"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format."
- 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.
- Open Culture: Free eBooks
"This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your computer, smart phone, or Kindle. It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry."
- OpenCulture: Free Audio Books Audio
"Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your mp3 player or computer. Below, you’ll find great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry."
- Podiobooks Audio
"Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule."
- 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. Includes a list of Books by Category.
- 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.
- UC Press E-Books Collection
"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 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."
- CK12 FlexBooks
"An online system for collaborative, custom-collated, self publishable educational content that can be adapted for individualized needs in a digital-age textbook known as a FlexBook."
- Connexions
"A place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc."
- Flat World Knowledge
"We preserve the best of the old — books by leading experts, peer-reviewed and developed to high editorial standards, fully supported by review copies, teaching supplements and great service."
- Merlot: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
Thousands of quality open-source books and materials. Includes a Community College Open Textbook Collaborative of college materials.
- OER Commons
"Open Educational Resources are teaching and learning materials that you may freely use and reuse, without charge. OER often have a Creative Commons or GNU license that state specifically how the material may be used, reused, adapted, and shared."
- Open Textbooks
"The primary goal ... is to identify, create and/or repurpose existing OER as Open Textbooks and make them available for use by community college students and faculty."
- Science Books Online
"Lists free science e-books, textbooks, lecture notes, monographs, and other science related documents."
- Textbook Revolution
"Our approach is to bring all of the free textbooks we 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. At Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds."
- Wikibooks
"A Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit. Wikibooks began on July 10, 2003; since then Wikibooks has grown to include over 34,816 pages ..."
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this page last updated June 4, 2010