Electronic Book Resources

Electronic texts are extremely useful in and out of the classroom. E-books are on-line texts that can be downloaded on to your computer or read through HTML. Many different types of e-books are accessible through the Internet. Children's books, fiction, nonfiction, news articles, tutorials and literature are just a few of the different types of electronic texts that are obtainable. These texts can be used to help students with their reading skills, broaden their horizons on classic novels and keep the students informed on current events. Electronic books are available in thousands of places on the internet, some have membership fees while others are absolutely free. Here are a few of the places that I found good resources for these unique assets.


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Description:

On-Line Books Page

This site supplies more than just 14,000 free electronic book listings. It also includes news articles, archives and inside stories.

Project Gutenberg

Here a person can search for e-books by title or author. Then the many listings are ordered alphabetically. The books can be downloaded as a text or zip file.

Free Books!

This index includes 100's of free e-books and educational links. This site's index of e-books range from children's books, books on American history and books on education.

Free EBooks

This page is divided into categories of books such as, children's, business, marketing, etc. A wide range of free electronic books are available in PDF format or as a text document.

Books-On-Line

Books on this site are obtainable in HTML format and are sent directly to the browser and can be displayed, saved or printed. Books are in other formats such as text files or word processing files and are sent using ftp.

Electronic Library

This page is very ingenious. Here, one doesn't download books but reads them off of the Internet itself. Not only is there the choice of thousands of books ranging in authors, but it also gives many different options to read the text. If a white and black screen is too harsh, one can change the color, size or text script and the background color to make it more easy one the eyes.

E-Books.com

For this site Adobe Acrobat E-Book Reader is necessary because these books are in PDF format. It's a free download directly from this site.

The Library of Free E-books

There are over 2,200 e-book listings contained within this site. All categorized into different topics to make easier to find. This is another site where reading the books directly off the Internet is possible.

Free Library of Classics

This page has hundreds of books listed alphabetically by author or title that load directly into HTML.

Book Rags

There are currently 1,500 e-Books online at this site. For convenience, the e-Book listing is broken down by letter. This site also opens up into HTML, which means that no downloading is necessary.


Class assignments:

Link Page

P1 - Schneider Home Page

P2 - Teacher Resources

P3 - Student Resources

P5 - Unit Resources

P6 - Educational Games

P7 - PDF Lesson and Quiz

P8 - Java Applet Game

P9 - Tutorial

P10 - PowerPoint Presentation on Trees

P11 - Final Project!


Links

CS255 Computers in El Ed Home Page

Ellerbruch Web Site

Link to Northern Michigan University


Latest update to this document: 18 October 2001

Jessica Schneider: jeschnei@nmu.edu