Tuesday, January 15, 2008

E-Text

There are increasing opportunities to find books and stories online. Of course, the Gutenberg Project started it all, Google is in the middle of a ambitious process of digitizing books and WikiBooks is promoting open source books. Below find some other sites to check out:

Project Gutenburg
http://gutenberg.net/

Bartleby.Com E-Book Store - Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/ebook/

Books-On-Line
http://www.books-on-line.com/bol/default.cfm

UT Library Online - Electronic Books
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/books/etext.html

The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Internet Public Libary: Free Online Books
http://www.ipl.org/div/books/

Free Online Books At The Free Well
http://www.icemall.com/free/free_books.html

Children's Books Online
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm

Aesop's Fables
http://www.pacificnet.net/~johnr/aesop/

IPL List of Online Book Sites
http://www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/

WikiBooks
http://simple.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

Folk and Fairy Tales
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folklinks.html

Online Children's Stories
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/stories.html

Free Online Classic Children's Stories
http://www.bygosh.com/childrensclassics.htm

Authorama Public Domain Books
http://www.authorama.com/

Online Books, Poems, Short Stories
http://www.readprint.com/

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Google Books
http://books.google.com/

Children's Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/

From Kern Kelley:

Universal Digital Library
http://www.ulib.org

1 comment:

  1. Hey Jim,
    There's also the The Universal Digital Library http://www.ulib.org

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