Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Online Books



http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html


The Online Books Page

ARCHIVES AND INDEXES

General -- Non-English Language -- Specialty
There's a vast range of online literature beyond what we index individually on The Online Books Page. Below we list some of the major sources and indexes of free online texts, in all languages, both general and specialized.

General

These are large, general-purpose collections with substantial English-language listings. For archives that mainly carry other languages, see the non-English languages archive listings. We break these out into categories: 
Large-scale repositories -- Significant indexes and search aids -- Significant smaller-scale archives

Large-scale repositories

These are big collections of texts, big enough to act as small library-like collections in their own right. The threshold for inclusion here may rise over time. Listed alphabetically.

Significant indexes and search aids

The sites below primarily provide search engines, indexes or useful link lists for finding online books.

Significant smaller-scale archives

Everything else we see worth listing that doesn't fit in more specialized categories.

Non-English Languages

Tyler Chambers's iLoveLanguages site has a comprehensive listing of various language and literature resources. The University of Virginia's Western European Literature listing also lists a number of major collections in languages other than English. For text and teaching materials in less common languages, see UCLA'sLanguage Materials Project. See also these archives:

Specialty Archives

These are listed by category:
Academic Presses and Institutions -- Agriculture -- Architecture -- Art and Crafts -- Audio -- Blacks -- Books, Printing, and Publishing -- Children -- Comics and Graphic Novels -- Computing -- Dissertations -- Drama -- Economics -- Folklore -- Historical -- Home Economics -- Literary -- Military -- Music and Dance --New Original Works -- Philosophy -- Poetry -- Politics, Government, Law -- Portable Reader Editions -- Regional -- Religion -- Science, Technology, Social Science and Math -- Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror -- Serials -- Sports, Games and Recreation -- Textbooks and Instructional Materials -- Women

Academic Presses and Institutions

Some presses and academic institutions have put a substantial number of free online books on their site. They are listed below.

Agriculture

Architecture

Art and Crafts

Audio

Black Writers and Subjects

Books, Printing, and Publishing

Children's Literature

Comics and Graphic Novels

  • Digital Comic Museum (public domain comic books; free registration required only for issue downloads)

Computing

Dissertations and Theses

Drama

Economics

Folklore

Historical

This section includes general or wide-area historical archives and indexes. For sites that focus on a particular country, state, or region, see the regional section.

Home Economics

Literary

See also historical (for literature from a certain period), and new original works (for web-published literature) and poetry.
For literary criticism, the Internet Public Library's Online Literary Criticism Collection is a good starting point.

Military

Music and Dance

New Original Works

These archives have substantial collections of material that has been first published first on the Net, or that appeared on the Web shortly after their original publication. See also the Open Directory's Online Writing links, which include pointers to many such archives, large and small, of varying quality.

Philosophy

Poetry

Politics, Government, Law

Portable Reader Editions

  • Feedbooks (thousands of public domain titles in EPub, Mobi, Kindle, and other formats)
  • Manybooks.net (over 25,000 titles formatted for PDAs, Kindles, Iphones, and other devices)
  • Microsoft Reader Free eBooks (for PocketPC and Windows platforms; for-pay books also offered)
  • PalmPilot E-Text Ring (80+ sites featuring free or for-pay texts formatted for Palm readers)
  • Qvadis Library (free texts in proprietary Palm format; requires purchase of reader software)
  • A few sites make many of their titles available in popular formats for portable devices, as well as standard Web formats. Notable sites in this category includethe Baen Free Library.

Regional

Books concerning various regions can also be found in general resources in the historical section.


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