Free Online E-Book Libraries

Hello, All,

There seem to be some PC-ers who are not as familiar as other PC'ers with free online e-libraries. In order to close that particular gap, I'd like this new thread to contain references from interested PC'ers to their known or favorite free online libraries. This is NOT with reference to the new phenomenon of Kindles, etc. The books available from the free libraries I'm talking about will be read on the computer screen or printed out if you'd rather. You simply log on to the library in question, go to their catalogs (usually arranged by author or title), find a book you believe you'd like to read, download it in a minute or two and start reading.

The downloader usually has the choice of several different formats in which to download. I usually use either .txt or .html. I like the .txt format because then you can format the book as you want with whatever word processing program you have. For example, as my mother's eyesight worsened when she was in her eighties, she could tell me which classics to download and print for her and in what size type.

Because of copyright laws, the contents of most of these libraries, while voluminous, are limited by some arbitrary date. In the United States, the date (I think) is 1923. In other places, different dates are used. I believe Google is buying up a lot of obscure old copyrights that to anyone else would have little value, but do have value to Google to put on their new eLibrary enterprise.

So, if any of you are already aware of free eLibrairies and have some saved in your favorites, please be so kind as to post their URLs here on this thread so others can use them. I'm starting off today with my favorite: Project Gutenberg (they have tens of thousands of books):

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Take care!

I was actually going to link to the gutenberg project! It was invaluable to me when I was in college. I was able to use it for a lot of papers I wrote as primary source material, without having to try to find the books!! I love that place.

http://librivox.org/ Is pretty cool too. It is an audio library of a lot of the books you will find on gutenburg. Its a volunteer organization, so many times the reader's voice with change throughout the book, but its awesome anyway. You can also volunteer to read for the project.

Here's another page that, instead of listing books, lists many of the free online book collections:

http://users.erols.com/jonwill/freebooks.htm

Take care!

http://e-library.net/free-ebook.htm

Thank you for posting these links, I have found one psychology-related book that I look forward to reading!