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=eBook Libraries=

-- The linked lists represents only a small portion of the free eBook libraries available today. Each of the libraries listed provides free services to the public. Depending on the library book can be presented in either single or multiple formats. // What's New in the Libraries! (Winter 2011) //

**Literature for Children**: [] A collection of over 1600 children's literature titles from the US and UK presented by the State University Libraries of Florida. **iWriteIt**: [|http://www.iwriteit.com]  I Write It is a site for downloading books written primarily for use in e-reader devices such as the Amazon Kindle. Formats for books include TXT, EPUB, MOBI, FB@, PDB, and PDF.

**BigUniverse (K-8):** [|http://www.biguniverse.com]  This site has curriculum and tools for learning, assessment, reading and writing development, using a vast library of online books. The site has a three-pronged approach: reading, creating and sharing online children's books **Google eBookstore**: []  Google eBooks, formerly called Google Editions, has hundreds of thusands of poular titles for sale and millions of books for free.

**U.S. Foreign Service Language Courses**: [] Student texts in PDF format, and audio in MP3 format for over 30 l  **Barnes & Noble.com** [] has more than a 100 titles available, and you don’t need a Nook electronic eBook reader to access. PDF and EPUB

**Free-eBooks.net**: [] 47 categories of books in HTML, PDF, Mobipocket, and ePub formats.

**Amazon.com Free Book Collections**: [] Free classics, out of copyright, pre-1923, and limited-time promotional books in Kindle format.

**Search tools:** **Free Books Spot**: []

** Free newspaper apps for the iPad: ** > Provides four key stories across the top of the front page and lets you flick through a long list of stories - offering the headline and intro as well as a photo.
 * USA Today's iPad app : []

> Offers News, Business, Technology, Opinion and Features sections (not the full paper, just the "Editor's Choice")
 * The New York Times : []

> Provides a front page, letting you scroll down through the intros of at least a dozen stories, including video reports. > Provides Front Page, What's News, Opinion, Marketplace, Money & Investing, Personal Journal or Greater New York.
 * Financial Times app : []
 * The Wall Street Journal's app : []

**PBS Kids mobile apps**: []  Variety of interactive ebooks for the iPad, iPhone ,and iPod Touch. ** Textbooks for Free: ** []  Text books site related to technology

**NCERT Textbooks**: []  for India look in the English teaching section for all grade levels for some good books (PDF format)

**Booksshouldbefree.com:** []  Text (html & txt) and audio (.mp3) versions of books for download or reading online. (usually from audio Gutenberg.org or Librivox.org)

**AudioOwl**: [|http://www.audioowl.com]  Free public domain audio books in a variety of formats (MP3, iPod, iTunes). (usually from audio Gutenberg.org or Librivox.org)

**epubBooks**: [|http://www.epubbooks.com]  Hundreds of books available in the ebook open web standard format – epub. <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> [|**Open Book Project**]: [] <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Students and teachers will find quality, free textbooks and materials here. <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">[|**BookBoon.com**] **:** [] Students can download free textbooks, from economics to biology to study abroad here. <span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> **Trail Blazing from the Royal Society**: [] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> 60 articles chosen the Royal Society's journals (html, PDF)

**Panjab Digital Library**: [] Panjab Digital Library represents an effort to preserve and make accessible the rich heritage of Panjab through digitization. Books magazines, newspapers, and photos related to the Sikhs and the Indian region o Panjab.

**New Zealand Electronic Text Centre** ( [] ) <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Free online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials. (HTML, XML, ePub) **CK-12:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization with a mission to reduce the cost of textbook materials for the K-12. Using an open-content, web-based collaborative model termed the "FlexBook," CK-12 intends to pioneer the generation and distribution of high quality educational content that will serve both as core text as well as provide an adaptive environment for learning. **Classics2Go**: [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> iPhone Lite reader and additional books are free. $0.99 for full version of reader with 47 books.

**eBook Search Queen**: [] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">search engine for ebooks and documents in pdf, doc, ppt, txt and rtf formats

**WOWIO Mo**bile: [] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> iPhone, iPod Touch, a recent BlackBerry, or a Google Android-based phone, * you can now have the entire WOWIO library in your pocket.

<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">**Free-eBooks.net** : [|http://free-ebooks.net] <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Access thousands of e-books free of charge. PDF and Mobi (.PRC) format. Registration required (free).

**Truly Free.org**: [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> collection of books in .doc format

<span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> **Online Novels**, [|http://online-novels.blogspot.com/] , <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Names, descriptions and web addresses of more than 700 novels available on the internet.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> [|**LearnOutLoud**] : <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Over <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">500 free audio and video titles. This directory features free audio books, lectures, speeches, sermons, interviews, and many other Browse over <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">15,000 educational <span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;">audio books, MP3 downloads, podcasts, and<span style="font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif;"> videos. Most audio titles can be downloaded in digital formats such as MP3 and most video titles are available to stream online.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> [|**Read Print**] [] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> A free online library that offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast.

** Newbery Honor Books and Medal Winners: **[] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Nine award winning books by women authors from the 20's though the 60's.

** Inkless Tales: **[] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Variety of early reader/emeregent and dolch stories.

**Light Up Your Brain:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> 18 Children's stories read aloud.

**World Digital Library:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

**Harlequin Free Romance:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> As part of Harlequin’s 60th anniversary you can get 16 free romance novels from eHarlequin online.

** Infinity Studio Flip Books: **[] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">18 different manga series available as online flip books.

**Kindle Store:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Amazon does have free books for the Kindle reading device.

**Google Books:** [|http://books.google.com] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> has lots of public domain books in PDF and txt formats.

**Google Books Mobile:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Google’s version of books for the web enabled cell phone.

** Wattpad Mobile: **[] ** Wattpad: **[] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Wattpad ebooks are uploaded by community members and include: stories, essays, jokes, etc. Can be read on a computer or mobile phone. Ebooks are in a plain text or html format.

**Snee:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> 16 free epub children's picture books

**Sony Classic Books from Google:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> 500,000 public domain books for the Sony Reader

**Tar Heel Reader:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Easy to read and accessible books for beginning teenaged readers.

<span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">**GenieBooks in PowerPoint:** <span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">[|http://www.auburn.edu/%7Emurrag1/bookindex.html] <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Decodable books for beginning readers in HTML or PPT, with books identified by phonic

[|**Nintendo DS 100 Classic Book Collection**] **:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - the iconic opening line from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. Well, now you can definitely enjoy the best of times with Mr Dickens and scores of his fellow writers with the 100 Classic Book Collection on Nintendo DS! **__ [|**British Library Online Gallery**] __** __ : __ __ [] __ Digitized original classics. An audio feature allows a visitor to have the book read aloud (original version of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Mozart's Musical Diary includes 75 audio excerpts). **Lookybook**: [] A picture book collection that uses a flash display to show the entire book, but has no option for zooming or enlarging. Users are able to create their own bookshelves from the extensive collection (over 300 books). **Connexions – Open Source Textbooks**: [] a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

** Book Gold Mine: **[] <span style="font-family: Arial; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"> Links to texts in the categories of Biology, Business, Computer Science, Math and Physics. Feedbooks is a e-reading platform compatible with mobile devices where you can [|download free e-books] available in multiple formats (ePub, Mobipocket, Kindle, PDF, Sony Reader, iLiad) **pdf Search Engine:** ** [|www.pdf-search-engine.com] ** Search for books in PDF format. ** Kids' Corner from Wired for Books: **[] Audio stories from Beatrix Potter (English, French, German, and Japanese) and Alice Adventures in Wonderland, Frog Prince, Christmas "Carol, Grimm's Fairy Tales, and more (Real media)  **Kennedy Center's Storytime Online**: []  Four video story books (Real)  **Penguin Books - We Tell Stories:** [] Exciting variety of newly created short stories matched with classics. Includes a Google map story, some Choose Your Own Adventures, a presentation story, a story told though twittter, and a simultaneous written story.  **Children's Literature From the Rare Book Room of the Library of Congress:** [] Large number of children's books in PDF and online page flip formats. A very fun ebook site that delivers books (poetry, short stories, and classics) in what looks like PowerPoint presentations. The site from the New Zealand Book Council delivers the texts using Flash that looks like PowerPoint. Very fun as the Flash application that runs in fullscreen and looks exactly like a Windows XP desktop with book categories to choose from. 20+ texts in FLASH. Hundreds of titles, search by title or author, or browse by topic. Download java files. Over 30,000 books and novels viewable on the iPhone and iPod. Over five special collections from the Library of Congress, scanned books in two image sizes. Historic American Newspapers: view ** newspaper pages ** from 1897-1910. Scanned images, text, pdf (searchable) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Planet eBook:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> A collection of over forty leading classic novels (PDF) - one and two page layout versions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**PDF Books:** [|http://www.pdfbooks.co.za]/ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Over 7,000 downloadable public domain e-books, classified alphabetically by author (in the Open Literature section). All files are in pdf format (standard or mobile versions for a small screen (more pages)). **Ebooks4free:** [|http://www.ebooks4free.net] Index site with links to" free e-books and more. In plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or as PDFs. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Diesel eBooks Free Collection:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Over 750 free e-books representing more than 400 authors, formatted for both Microsoft Reader (.txt files) and Mobipocket. Includes classic American and British fiction, U.S. history, children's literature, Shakespeare, African-American documents and more. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Moon Books Project:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> eBooks for Nintendo DS device. Over 80 downloadable files, some with multiple books, mostly classics. The graphic novel "Bound by Law translates [copyright] law into plain English and abstract ideas into 'visual metaphors.' So the comic's heroine, Akiko, brandishes a laser gun as she fends off a cyclopean 'Rights Monster' - all the while learning copyright law basics, including the line between fair use and copyright infringement." HarperCollins has a special feature on their website called "Browse Inside," an application allowing visitors to sample whole books from the list of HarperCollins titles online using a special flash display. Click on the Browse Inside link to access content. Over 500 titles in the general section and similar number in the children's section. //Children's Books//: [] Delivers public domain literature with high quality audio. Read and listen via web browser or download mp3. //** Tor publishing, which offers a wide range of science fiction, is offering free weekly books if you sign up **// Noted science fiction author Steven Burst has released a Firefly novel under the Creative Commons license (PDF & Word). Three books (HTML) for 1st Grade readers. A wide variety of comics and graphic novels. Graphic novel version of the report from Slate Magazine. Selected stories from their site are available free as PDF single sheets and as MP3 files. The Graphic Novel version of the NBC television show Heroes. Links to seventeen * online/downloadable graphic novels. Links to a number of online graphic novels including Darkhorse's version of H. G. Wells' __War of the Worlds.__ Graphic novels for the web and PSP. Seven authors of famous classic horror including Poe and Lovecraft (HTML). Over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors (HTML). free audiobooks from the public domain in mp3 or ogg formats Mixing online book reading with discussion groups. Uses a three panel display for the text, the center panel shows the text, the side panels Talk and Mark,: Talk for conversation with other about the book; and Mark to take notes about the book. Free downloadable physics text book. Links to science fiction and fantasy books online. **FreeFullText.com:** [] Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require free registration). **Free USA e-books:** [] //USA Today's// Open Book program, over 25 books in HTML. Open Book runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all visitors, published in weekly installments. [|http://www.openbook.usatoday.com] "WAP-enabled" mnybks.net ([]) for free e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone). PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Ask Sam ebooks:** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Free searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt reports, legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. Requires registration & downloading the free askSam viewer software to use. - Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter) Over 1500 texts in a variety of genres (PDF, Sony, iLiad) Five classic books about Texas and the Southwest (HTM) Digitized versions of children's books published in Great Britain and the United States from the early 1700s through the current year (scanned images). Textbooks on accounting, economics, education, math, study, and productivity tools A large number of rare books, available as high resolution photographs or PDF **Flashback Universe:** [] Over 7 high quality image comics. 22 free audiobooks with registration Great excerpt from Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation in Flash and audio (MP3). [|Cell Phone Books] - information, creation tools, and library links //**Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham:**// [] Comic book set in H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham in 1933. Seth Fletcher has just journeyed to Arkham, seeking his brother lost years before, but as he will soon discover, all is not as it seems. WOWIO is a new kind of online bookstore that enables readers to download ebooks for free, using commercial sponsorships to compensate authors and publishers (free account required). EBooks available in PDF format. over 20,000 texts in a variety of formats: .lit, .html, .pds, etc. **the** **Kurt Vonnegut Library**: [] 15 books from the author in PDF, Word, txt, and MP3 A great demonstration of a selected number of books from the Internet Archive, displaying how books can be shared on the internet. Book search tool that searches the catalogs of libraries near you to find the books that you want to check out and read. Provides literature study guides, chapter summaries and analysis, topics for discussion, quotes, style, themes and character analysis (html). Over 700 free ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader (LIT)
 * FeedBooks: **[|http://www.feedbooks.com]
 * Read At Work:** []
 * BooksInMyPhone:** [] (by phone: [|http://mobile.booksinmyphone.com])
 * TextOnPhone:** []
 * Digitized Materials from the Rare Book & Special Collections Division:** []
 * // Chronicling America //:** []
 * Bound by Law: Tales from the Public Domain:** [|__http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/__]
 * HarperCollins Browse Inside**: []
 * LoudLit**: []
 * TOR**: []
 * Burst, Steven:** []
 * Tampa Reads**: []
 * Collins Compendium of Free Online Comic Books:** []
 * 9/11 Report:** []
 * BookBox**: []
 * Heroes**: []
 * DailyBits**: []
 * Full Story's Graphic Novel Archive:** []
 * NYC 2123:** []
 * Dragonbytes.com Library:** []
 * Literature Network:** []
 * LibriVox**: []
 * Book Glutton**: [|http://www.bookglutton.com]
 * Motion Mountain Physics**: []
 * Hour of the Wolf Science Fiction Collection**: []
 * WellToldTales**: []
 * FeedBooks.com**: []
 * Southwestern Classics On-line:** []
 * Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature:** [|__http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/baldwin.html__]
 * Freeload Press**: []
 * Rare Book Room:** []
 * Creative Commons Books**** : [] **
 * Over 50 ** works that are or have been commercially available in hardcopy and have an ISBN
 * Audiobooks.net:** []
 * Center for Educational Technology and Learning (CETL):** []
 * WOWIO**: []
 * Munseys** : Formerly Blackmask: []
 * Open Library**: []
 * WorldCat**: [|http://www.worldcat.org]
 * LitSum**: []
 * Diesel eBooks**: []