Online Texts & Books

20-20
Provides free books and other materials covering a wide array of areas. Topics include history, garden, children's honks, how-to books, home repair and decoration and fashion.

Accessible Book Collection
Provides high interest, low reading level materials to persons with disabilities. Only persons with a documented disability that prevents them from reading standard print effectively may access these materials.

The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Amazon E-books
Provides access to over one million commercial e-books.

Audio Books for Free
Over 300 audio books (as MP3 file) available for free download. Some texts available as unabridged edition.

Bartleby's
Provides access to reference, literature, and verse materials available on the web at no charge.

Bibliomania
Offers over 2,000 classic texts including poetry, fiction, drama, short stories in addition to biographies, reference materials, and study guides.

Bookshare
Provides access to copyrighted and non- copyrighted text. Users must subscribe since access is limited to use by persons with disabilities.

CAST Digital Content in the Classroom Toolkit
Has links to digital book sites as well as several powerful search engines.

Children's Literature Web Guide
Is gathering and categorizing a growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.

Classic Authors
Long list of classic authors and works. Also includes some biographical information about each author.

The Classic Reader
Offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. You can read, search and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also available.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
This is a server of the complete works of William Shakespeare, provided by The Tech-MIT. The HTML versions of these plays, and the links, are Copyright © 1995.

Digital Book Index
Provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non- commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free while many others are available at very modest cost.

Foreign Language Books
Contains a list of sites with ebooks in a foreign language.

Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia
Includes approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in many languages (including online Chinese and Japanese literature) and hundreds of thousands of related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, and museum objects).

Google Book Search
Allows users to search through all of the text of many books. Plenty of obscure books here.

The Internet Public Library
Provides an extensive collection of books, magazines, and other materials for children as well as adults.

Intersect
Is creating a set of digital books infused with a variety of resources to support comprehension. In addition to a digital library, the site provides a Teacher Center to assist integrating digital books in the classroom and Developer's Guidelines with tools and templates to create or modify other web-based materials.

Kid's Corner (read on line)
Contains a collection of Beatrix Potter's books with text available in English, German, Japanese, and French.

The On-Line Books Page
Lists over 20,000 free books available on the web.

Page by Page Books
Offers hundreds of free classic books with frequent additions to the collection.

Project Gutenburg
Offers more than 15,000 eBooks, most of which are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States.

Read Print
Offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

School eBook Library
Offers public access to over 27,000 books and materials. Paying a nominal membership fee of $8.95 per year allows access to over 100,000 additional books and materials. Reading lists prepared by the University of Hawaii sort books by grade level.

The Universal Library
Provides a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language. Within 10 years, the collection is expected to grow to 10 Milllon books.

University of Texas Libraries
Offers an excellent selection of free literature, reference, and other collections as well as links to other major Etext sites.

Young People's Zone Online Library
Offers a good selection of books for students at all grade levels.

ONLINE E-TEXTS AND E-BOOKS
20-20 Provides free books and other materials covering a wide array of areas. Topics include history, garden, children's honks, how-to books, home repair and decoration and fashion.	Accessible Book Collection Provides high interest, low reading level materials to persons with disabilities. Only persons with a documented disability that prevents them from reading standard print effectively may access these materials.
The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts A collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.	Amazon E-books Provides access to over one million commercial e-books.
Audio Books for Free Over 300 audio books (as MP3 file) available for free download. Some texts available as unabridged edition.	Bartleby's Provides access to reference, literature, and verse materials available on the web at no charge.
Bibliomania Offers over 2,000 classic texts including poetry, fiction, drama, short stories in addition to biographies, reference materials, and study guides.	Bookshare Provides access to copyrighted and non- copyrighted text. Users must subscribe since access is limited to use by persons with disabilities.
CAST Digital Content in the Classroom Toolkit Has links to digital book sites as well as several powerful search engines.	Children's Literature Web Guide Is gathering and categorizing a growing number of Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.
Classic Authors Long list of classic authors and works. Also includes some biographical information about each author.	The Classic Reader Offers a large collection of free classic books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others. You can read, search and even add your own annotations to any of the classic books. A selection of author biographies and portraits are also available.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare This is a server of the complete works of William Shakespeare, provided by The Tech-MIT. The HTML versions of these plays, and the links, are Copyright © 1995.	Digital Book Index Provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non- commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free while many others are available at very modest cost.
Foreign Language Books Contains a list of sites with ebooks in a foreign language.	Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Includes approximately 70,000 on- and off-line humanities texts in many languages (including online Chinese and Japanese literature) and hundreds of thousands of related images (book illustrations, covers, manuscripts, newspaper pages, page images of Special Collections books, and museum objects).
Google Book Search Allows users to search through all of the text of many books. Plenty of obscure books here.	The Internet Public Library Provides an extensive collection of books, magazines, and other materials for children as well as adults.
Intersect Is creating a set of digital books infused with a variety of resources to support comprehension. In addition to a digital library, the site provides a Teacher Center to assist integrating digital books in the classroom and Developer's Guidelines with tools and templates to create or modify other web-based materials.	Kid's Corner (read on line) Contains a collection of Beatrix Potter's books with text available in English, German, Japanese, and French.
The On-Line Books Page Lists over 20,000 free books available on the web.	Page by Page Books Offers hundreds of free classic books with frequent additions to the collection.
Project Gutenburg Offers more than 15,000 eBooks, most of which are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States.	Read Print Offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.
School eBook Library Offers public access to over 27,000 books and materials. Paying a nominal membership fee of $8.95 per year allows access to over 100,000 additional books and materials. Reading lists prepared by the University of Hawaii sort books by grade level.	The Universal Library Provides a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language. Within 10 years, the collection is expected to grow to 10 Milllon books.
University of Texas Libraries Offers an excellent selection of free literature, reference, and other collections as well as links to other major Etext sites.	Young People's Zone Online Library Offers a good selection of books for students at all grade levels.
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