Online Books
(ebooks)
Your public library offers digital media (including eBooks and audiobooks) for download to computers, mp3players, ipods, etc. (public library card required)
Confused?? Try the available tutorial at http://www.overdrive.com/products/dlr/tour/
Online full-text of literary works
American and English Full Text Literature Collections
http://www.oplin.org/databases/
Under the 'Books, Art, and Literature' Heading (an OPLIN Research Database)
American and English Literature contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose, based on books and other sources originally published in print. *Public library card required for use
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/cgi-bin/search-aw1-e.cgi?terms=ebooks
Selection of books free on the web!
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm
Digital Book Index provides links to more than 142,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 100,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at very modest cost.
http://books.google.com/
Google has digitized many books from library collections, including hundreds of books related to Old English literature: editions, translations, etc.
Literature Online (an INFOhio Research Database)
http://www.infohio.org/ER/secure/CH.asp
Contains full-text, searchable works available online to supplement a library's print collections. Poetry, drama and fiction are included. The search engine allows searches across all 15 collections. *Username and password required for home access
http://www.online-literature.com/
This site offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. They currently have over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors. The quotations database has over 8500 quotes.
http://www.literature.org
On this site you will find the full and unabridged texts of classic works of English literature.
http://manybooks.net/
There are 18,875 eBooks available here and they're all free!
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
There are over 20,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
http://www.ulib.org
The online library offers full text downloads of works that are in the public domain, or for which the copyright holder has been given permission to make available. Having the backing of prominent institutions such as the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, however, the collection goes far beyond the widely available classics, though those are there, too.
eBooks for Purchase
http://www.ebooks.com/
http://www.googleebooks.com/
GoogleEbooks.com is an online marketplace with original, popular and very useful digital goods, scripts, templates, software programs and applications available for purchase.
*Hint: Check places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other booksellers.