Web Sites: Recommended: Free ebooks on the Internet

A large collection of illustrated antique books. New books and translations are added each week.

This site offers a collection of digital books for children that represent historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.

A union catalog of electronic books, texts, and documents. A large library of electronic books. Site provides links to more than 139,000 full-text digital books free.

This site provides free audio books from the public domain and strives to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

This site makes audio ebooks available for some of the same great literature available in plain text. Books are human read and computer generated.

List of guides for ebooks, promotional aids, standards, and software.

Offers a large directory of free downloadable ebooks online. Browse by categories or search.

From the University of Adelaide, Australia. This site contains a large and growing selection of public domain ebooks. While these titles could be found on a variety of other sites such as Project Gutenberg, Adelaide has reformatted the titles to make them both easy to find an easy to read. Downloading is free, but can only be done one chapter at a time. NOTE: Due to the fact that Adelaide has chosen to embed the search engine in its Facebook page, navigation may be confusing.

This site allows you to search full-text of books , browse books online, and buy or borrow books from a library.

An open access text archive that is open to the community for contributions of any text type. Site was founded to build an Internet library with purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.

A site that offers over 3,700 online free books. Users may search, read, download, and order from the site.

Lists over 25,000 free books on the web.

A collection of over 20,000 free books in Project Guttenberg. This site offers one of the first and largest single collection of free electronic books and strives to use the latest technology. Collection includes audio books, CD/DVD project, as well as digitized sheet music

A collection of full-text books from the Smithsonian Institution.

The world’s largest digital archive of PDF ebooks and edocuments. Offers a collection of more than 500,000 ebooks and edocuments.

Covers a wide range of global and regional topics such as climate change; energy; agriculture; health; education; gender equality; trade; emerging markets; infrastructure, and policy.

A large collection of online books that offers unlimited access to literature, reference, and verse.

A collection of over 2100 publically available ebooks from University of Virginia’s Virgo center. Includes a wide variety of literature.

The purpose of this site is to build up the church by making classic Christian writings available and also to promote use.

Browse AMS books by author or subject.