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- Atlantic Online: Fiction and Poetry Pages
New fiction and poetry, and commentary on the classics, from The Atlantic.
- Bartleby.com
Classic literature, verse, and reference books, including the full 1904-1917 Harvard Classics.
- BooksInMyPhone
Free ebooks formatted for reading on java-enabled cellphones.
- Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Includes, nonfiction, fiction, hymns, Bibles, and Bible commentaries.
- 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."
- 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.
- The EServer: Accessible Online Publishing
"A digital humanities venture, based at Iowa State U, where hundreds of writers, editors and scholars gather to publish over 35,000 works free of charge."
- 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."
- Google Books
"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."
- Project Gutenberg (recommended)
As "the first producer of free electronic books" Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 works in a number of languages; these are mostly older items in the public domain. Includes a list of Books by Category.
- InkMesh
"Find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Nook, Sony Reader and more!"
- 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."
- ManyBooks.net
"Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader. ... There are more than 29,000 eBooks available ... and they're all free!"
- Memoware
Offers both free and paid ebooks in a variety of formats.
- Nietz Full-Text Collection
Fascinating collection of hundreds of 19th century schoolbooks.
- The On-Line Books Page
"Listing over 1 million free books on the Web." Offers search or browse by author, title, subject, and books newly listed.
- 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."
- 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."
- Bluford Audio Books
"Bluford Series audiobooks are provided by Townsend Press as a free resource to educators and students." Includes 15 YA titles.
- BooksShouldBeFree
"BooksShouldBeFree makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way."
- Ejunto
"ejunto is a not-for-profit corporation ... with the mission of bringing quality historical and philosphical audiobooks to the public domain."
- Internet Archive: 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."
- LibraVox (recommended)
"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." Also available via iTunes.
- Lit2Go
"Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format."
- Mercury Theatre on the Air
Download recordings of classic radio stories and serials.
- Podiobooks
"Free serialized audio books, delivered on your schedule."
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this page last updated January 25, 2012