Free eBooks

Bartleby Library

Provides access to reference works such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Roget's Thesaurus. It also contains ebooks on history, verses and quotations, cooking, as well as works by selected authors.

Council on Library & Information Resources (CLIR)

Provides access to full-text reports, white papers, newsletters and research briefs on library and information-related topics.

Ebrary

Provides freely viewable books on selected topics. Requires the free ebrary Reader for browsing and searching the text.

Electronic Text Center

Contains over 1,800 publicly available ebooks including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents. Text is accessible in HTML (web version) for online viewing, and can be downloaded as both a MS Reader E-book for the Microsoft Reader and a Palm-readable text for the Palm Reader.

eserver.org

Based at the Iowa State University, this website attempts to provide an alternative niche for quality work. The collection includes collections works on contemporary art, race, Internet studies, sexuality, drama, design, multimedia, accessible publishing and current political and social issues. In addition to written works, it also provides audio and video recordings.

Fliplibrary.com

Provides access to over 2,500 eText books searchable by keywords, author, title and categorized into various subjects such as Fiction, Natural History, Poetry, Drama, Science, Technology, Religion, etc.

Internet Public Library

The Reading Room provides a searchable annotated catalog of books, magazines and newspapers freely available over the Internet.

National Academies Press

Offers over 3,000 books freely available online. The books are categorized into various subjects, and can also be searched by title or text using their search engine.

netLibrary

Offers over 3,400 ebook titles for free, in addition to the titles which the Library subscribes.

The On-Line Books Page

contains a searchable listing of over 20,000 ebooks available on the Internet for free. Created and maintained by John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania.

Project Gutenberg

Makes available public domain publications in ASCII text format. Included are light literature, like Alice in Wonderland and Aesop's Fables, heavy literature such as Shakespeare's plays and reference materials like Roget's thesarus. The files are for downloading and viewing offline.