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- Audio
books, music and more:
The State Library of Kansas is proud to announce the arrival
of Digital Audio Books and Digital Music for your enjoyment.
Now you can browse and search hundreds of great titles and
download them to your computer, transfer them to a portable
device, or burn onto a CD for your reading and listening
pleasure anywhere, anytime. You simply need a Kansas
Library Card. Try it, it's easy!
- Online
Books Page: Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web!
All kinds of stuff here. Highly recommended.
- Project
Gutenberg:
Containing over 100,000 literary works which are in the public
domain.
- Sacred
Texts Archive: A huge, full text collection of the sacred
texts of every major religion in the world.
- Google
Books: Search the full text of books to find ones that
interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. Google
will show the full book when it is out of copyright.
- Open
Content Alliance (Archive.org): Represents the collaborative efforts
of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental
organizations from around the world that help build a permanent
archive of multilingual digitized texts.
- Online Library of Liberty:
The Library is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats.
- Perseus Digital Library:
Online collection of classic writings from antiquity from Tufts University's Classics Department.
- Classic Reader:
Search this online library of thousands of free books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.
- FullBooks.com:
Offers thousands of books that can be read online for free.
- LibriVox:
LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain.
There are several options for listening.
- Spoken
Alexandria Project: The Spoken Alexandria Project is
creating a free library of spoken word recordings, consisting
of classics in the public domain and modern works (with
permission).
- Bookshelf:
The National Library of Medicine's growing collection of
biomedical books that can be searched directly.
- International
Children's Digital Library: Over 4446 free children's
books in 34 different languages.
- National
Academic Press:
Over 200 books per year on a wide range of topics in science,
engineering, and health.
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