The Great 'Free Online Books' Hunt.

Jam_3

I discovered this site recently, full of numerous old and rare ebooks, all freely available to read:
http://www.psitek.net/index2.html

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Jam

pinkkipper

buymemanolos wrote:

Hello! First post!
Can't believe no one's yet mentioned the Google Print Search. This offers thousands of books in a scanned-in format, you can read page by page (including illustrations). Very
useful.

http://print.google.com/

Stunning stuff - I can read at work as well

stressedoutmum

Just read through most of this thread and have been trying to find the story Lion, Witch and Wardrobe on a free site (or at least a summary of it). Can anyone find anything. If not are there any free stories for children aged 6-12. There was a link which susie19 posted on here in June to a website which I used a lot before but its not working now or is it just me? The stories were just the right size for a bedtime story and my kids loved them.
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Jardin/1630/

gransblj

How about reading through the original notes of Leonardo Di Vinci, Jane Austin's handwritten novel or the original version of Alice in Wonderland.

The British library site has online version of these (and more) that you can leaf through at your leisure online.

Its really cool - you use your mouse to turn the pages (I recommend Broadband & you need to be patient for a couple of mins while it loads

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

gransblj

The Wellcome institute also have some interesting volumes (medieval medical I think) :

page turnable copies : http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/ttp.html


digital images: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/etexts.html


And the National library of medicine: http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/books.htm

pol

Some classic books here

http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/

pol

mh1923

Free audiobooks at librivox.org

The LibriVox objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. Books are recorded by volunteers and hosted at the Internet Archive.

Dottyj

I found http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp..

It's an american site. You can order for free but the quality isn't 100% but still good enough to listen to or you can choose to pay $3 upwards for smaller files and better quality. I have downloaded free books and they are fine. Especially good for my mp3 player because there are number of separate files and I don't need to worry to about finding my place again.

puj

http://www.floodle.net/extra/ebayinfo/index.html

Has loads of ebooks that people sell on ebay for free.

They still count as books!

Reya

These are the sites that I have bookmarked:

http://www.online-literature.com/
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.bartleby.com/
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
http://manybooks.net/ (this one is brilliant; ebooks in lots of formats)
http://bythefireplace.com/
http://susdl.fcla.edu/juv/ (literature for children)
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ (programming and computer science books)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
http://www.bl.uk/collections/ (The British Library)

There's also a large list of online ebook sites here:

http://www.e-fic.com/fries/ebooks.shtml

And a great resource for those who will have to make long journeys this summer with bored (little) kids in the car is this brilliant kids' audio books site:

http://storynory.com/