WHAT IS HERE? Electronic Books are books that you can download and read from the Internet into a word processor. You can find full editions of some the world's best novels at a variety of different sites. I've done the work for you and looked up several sites to get you started. You'll be busy with just these few suggestions.
Education uses include new ways to get directly to sources and direct quotes from novels. English classes will benefit the most from E-Books. The classics are all available in full original editions.
Online Books Page - The Online Books Page is hosted at the University of Pennsylvania and has over 14,000 listings available. Topics include A Celebration of Women Writers, novels, foreign language, and speciality archives.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts - This is the Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts, a collection of digital documents collected in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy.
TWM Research - This unique search engine is a collaborative effort between TWM Research and supporting publishers to help faculty find out about new math textbooks. It focuses exclusively on recently published new titles and editions and is updated every semester (currently listing books published from January through December 2000). Faculty can look up their specific curriculum and see listings for each course. There is no charge for this service and no registration is required.
OnlineSapiens.com -- Free electronic books you can read online. Sources include The Ascent of the Mind, CyberEconomics, Online Biology Book, Technical Writing, and Science Toys You Can Make With Your Child.
ExInEd's Home Page - Welcome to ExInEd's home page. ExInEd (Exploration In Education) is a program of the Special Studies Office at the Space Telescope Science Institute. Please stop and take a look at our latest electronic offerings of Macintosh, Windows, and DOS software available for downloading! All free! All now!
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA'S E-BOOK LIBRARY - There are around 1,600 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more. Please stop in.
The Library of Congress - Surprise, surprise! The Library of Congress has pages for 50 states in a paragraph form with a description of each. The perfect interactive e-book.
The National Academy Press - 1000+ books, free for the reading, first page to last. Available in a variety of versions, including scanned pages in image format, hypertext HTML books, and as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. NAP publishes over 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy.
IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection -- The IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection contains 4,637 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by nationality and literary period.
William Shakespeare (All Works) - Welcome to the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. Announcement: The restoration of the site following a disk failure has been delayed. The text of the plays is available now. Poetry and other works will be available soon.
Internet Classics Archive - The Internet Classics Archive is a searchable collection of almost 400 classical Greek and Roman texts (in English translation) with user-provided commentary.
Updated: 27 September 2001 - 9:30 AM
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