E-Books on the Web

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts


 "A collection of public domain 
documents from American and English literature as well as Western 
philosophy." Contains several hundred titles, which can be 
downloaded in PDF, Newton Paperback, Palm and Rocket eBook formats. 

Making of America (MOA) from University of Michigan


"A digital library of primary sources in 
American social history from the antebellum period through 
reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the 
subject areas of education, psychology, American history, 
sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection 
currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal 
articles with 19th century imprints."

Online Books Page from University of Pennsylvania

A directory listing over 20,000 free books and several serials 
found on the Web that are searchable by subject. When you find a 
title you want click the link and you will be taken to the 
fulltext in most cases. 

Project Gutenberg 

The oldest producer of free electronic books 
(eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Their collection of more 
than 13,000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers 
and includes works in 25 different languages. Most of the 
eBooks are older literary works whose copyright has expired.
All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for 
non-commercial use. Types of ebooks include reference 
materials like, dictionaries and almanacs, and literature,
including the Bible and short stories of Robert Louis Stevenson.

University of California's Digital Library E-scholarship

"The eScholarship Editions collection includes the full text of 
more than 1,400 books from academic presses on a range of topics, 
including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction."
A significant number of the electronic books are available 
for free to the public. 

University of Virginia

Search the full text of all 1800 publicly-available e-books or browse
by subjects, which include classic British and American fiction, 
major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, 
American history, African-American documents, and much more. 
Each text can be accessed in HTML (web version) for online 
viewing, and can be downloaded as both a MS Reader E-book 
for the Microsoft Reader and a Palm-readable text for the 
Palm Reader.

Victorian Women Writer's from Indiana University Libraries LETRS

Contains "highly accurate transcriptions of works by British women 
writers of the 19th century." 250 texts are currently in the 
collection, which is growing. 

J. Spencer & Patricia Standish Library 
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