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The Stingy Scholar has an excellent post that covers this information in more detail, with some different sources, at this post, so I’m no longer maintaining this post, although I’ll leave it up for archival purposes. Between the two posts, I think we’ve about covered the ebooks world.
- About.com might be commercial and full of ads (turn your pop-up blocker on!), but it is also a great source of free information. I’m a particularly big fan of the geology guide at geology.about.com.
- Answers.com combines wikipedia with dictionary.com and google. It’s outstanding for researching school projects.
- The Baen Free Library offers a large number of titles from their science fiction catalog for free, plus has an impressive anti “piracy” rant.
- Bartleby.com is an astonishing collection of literature and reference worksl, with thousands of its print books available for free online. Although you can’t download or (easily) print them, you can read them to your heart’s content.
- The Digital Book Index can help you search over 111,000 ebooks, most of which are free.
- Google Print is making waves by digitizing all the books in a some pretty big libraries. Search the text, and read any public-domain book online.
- IBiblio is the world’s digital archive and library.
- The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. The archive now has a text section that mirrors the Million Book Project and others, so I direct you there instead of providing individual links to these worthy projects.
- The Internet Public Library will blow your mind. It has just about everything a student, teacher, or parent could want.
- Leeds University Library maintains a massive list of books online, many of which are free, others available only to Leeds’ students/faculty.
- The Online Books Page at UPenn has over 25,000 free books online in an easy to search format.
- PlantetPDF has a free ebooks area that offers books in standard or tagged PDF’s. The tagged versions may work better on some e-book readers.
- Lostcrafts.com features several public domain works on bookbinding and blacksmithing on their site in an online-only format.
- Pluckerbooks is a website that offers stripped-down HTML versions of popular public domain literary works, suitable for viewing on handheld computing devices.
- Project Gutenberg is the grand-daddy of free ebook projects. The books are mirrored available at archive.org.
- Wikipedia is the wildly successful free encyclopedia.
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posted Nov 13, 10:00 AM by Jason Turgeon
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