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These catalogs are available for you to look up materials that you may need.  If you find something that our local library does not have, let the library staff know so that we can arrange for an interlibrary loan procedure.

 

 

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References

Electronic Resources Explanations

 

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E-Books

The Frequently Asked Questions document will answer your questions on how to download the e-books. The other pamphlets give detailed insturctions on iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kindle, or other eReader and downloading to yourcomputer with Mobipocket Reader.

Frequently Asked Questions | iPad/iPhone | Nook/Kindle | Mobipocket Reader

Bartleby offers unlimited access to books and information on the web free of charge.

Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe.

Book-bot offers thousands of book free to read.
Books Should Be Free makes the world's public domain audio books available for browsing in a visual and entertaining way.

The goal of Bookyards is to be “The Library To The World”, a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be free to anyone who has an internet connection. Currently, Bookyards has a total of 17,429 books, 41,798 external web links, 4,198 news & blogs links, 384videos, 32,985 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries.

The Classics Archive brings the wisdom of the classics to the Internet.

Digital Book Index is a sukbject guide to free digital ebooks.
Free Book Spot is a free e-books links library where you can find and download free books in almost any category. They have lots of links to free ebooks in more than 90 categories.  You can find scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. All
Enjoy unlimited reading at Free-eBooks.net. Discover all-new, rising authors. Independent writers offer both entertaining fiction/romance for your enjoyment and non-fiction to help you find information from self-help to business growth.
Full Books.com offers thousands of full text free books.

Get Free e books brings both authors and readers into the world of free ebooks. Authors with their free ebooks will benefit greatly from the large community of readers and the readers will in return, of course, have lots of materials to read to their hearts’ content.

JustFreeBooks searches the content of more than 700 web sites, including gutenberg.org, wikibooks.org and archive.org. With JustFreeBooks you can find all sorts of free books: public domain texts, open books, free audio books, ad-supported books and more.

Kobo is one of the world's fastest-growing eReading services. Read Freely stems from Kobo's belief that consumers should have the freedom to read any book, anytime, anyplace – and on any device. As a result, Kobo has attracted millions of readers from more than 170 countries and features one of the world's largest eReading catalogues with over 2.5 million eBook, newspaper and magazine titles.

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Malaspina Great Books is a student research database contains 1021 custom entries or records. Each record offers research material organized under the three page navigation headings: Biographical Material, Great Books and Detailed Library Search, and a standardized 485 pixel wide Representative Image.

Many Books.net has more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they're all free! You can browse through some covers to see what strikes your fancy or try the recent additions to the library with a genre filter.

The Online Books Page is a searchable index of links to over 18,000 text, PDF, and HTML versions of books found on the Web .
Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.
Open Source Shakespeare attempts to be the best free Web site containing Shakespeare's complete works. It is intended for scholars, thespians, and Shakespeare lovers of every kind. OSS includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works, which was the definitive single-volume Shakespeare edition for over a half-century.
Perseus maintains a web site that showcases collections and services developed as a part of our research efforts over the years. Our flagship collection, under development since 1987, covers the history, literature and culture of the Greco-Roman world. We are applying what we have learned from Classics to other subjects within the humanities and beyond.

Planet eBook is the home of free classic literature. All our novels and books are entirely free for you to download and share with your friends, classmates, students, anyone!

Project Gutenberg offers over 39,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.

Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles.
Read Print is a well-organized, easy-to-use collection of public domain (pre-1920) novels and short stories.

The mission of The Universal Digital Library is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, available to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is our expectation that the collection will grow to 10 Million books. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or socioeconomic background.

Visual Link® Languages was created by the U.S. Institute of Languages and exists to help people bridge communication gaps and to give back to the world in which we live. Visual Link® and its free language learning lessons are available on this website. Learn a language with hundreds of free language-learning lessons, games, and activities

WOWIO, an Alliance Acquisitions, Inc. company, is a unique eBook marketplace that stands apart from the crowd by offering significant advantages to readers, authors, publishers and advertisers.

 

The World Public Library Association is the world’s largest eBook provider. The World Public Library Association is a global coordinated effort to preserve and disseminate classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in a number of languages and countries around the world. Our mission is to serve and aid the public, students, and educators, by providing the world's most complete collection of electronic texts, books, and documents online, as well as offer a variety of services and resources that support and strengthen the instructional programs of education, elementary through post-baccalaureate studies.

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Updated: May 17, 2012