The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/the_harvard_classics_a_free_digital_collection.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Free eBooks
"How to Download Free Ebooks With just a little searching, you can find and download free, legal ebooks for your e-reader, smartphone, or tablet," by Michael King, PC World,  Oct 15, 2011 ---
http://www.pcworld.com/article/241717/how_to_download_free_ebooks.html#tk.nl_wbx_t_crawl2

Digital Public Library of America --- http://dp.la/

Soon to be the largest scholarly library in the world:
Google Book Search --- http://books.google.com/ 

June 6, 2008 message from Carolyn Kotlas [kotlas@email.unc.edu]

GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Charles W. Bailey, Jr. recently published the second version of "The Google Book Search Bibliography." The resource provides citations and links to over a hundred English-language references to scholarly papers and newspaper articles. The bibliography presents a comprehensive examination of the Google service and the "legal, library, and social issues associated with it." The bibliography is available at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm

Bailey is a prolific compiler of scholarly communication bibliographies, notably the "Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography" (now in its 70th edition). You can access all his publications at http://www.digital-scholarship.org/

Jensen Comment
Also see http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3069&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Google Books --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Book_Search

Google's Book Search --- http://books.google.com/

Amongst the Alternatives to Buy Books on Googole ebookstore
"A Sample of Free Google eBooks from the Google ebookstore," by Jim Martin, MAAW Blog, December 12, 2010 ---
http://maaw.blogspot.com/2010/12/sample-of-free-google-ebooks-from.html

Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/popular_high_school_books_available_as_free_ebooks_audiobooks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on free lectures, courses, videos, and course materials from prestigious universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online --- Click Here
 http://www.openculture.com/2011/10/royal_society_opens_online_archive_puts_60000_papers_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Interesting site for online historical texts
http://historicaltextarchive.com/

Free e-book directory
www.e-booksdirectory.com

"Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars," by Geoffrey Nunberg, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 31, 2010 ---
http://chronicle.com/article/Googles-Book-Search-A/48245/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S. District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one. Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry. Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of the collection may pass from Google to somebody else—Elsevier, Unesco, Wal-Mart. But it's safe to assume that the digitized books that scholars will be working with then will be the very same ones that are sitting on Google's servers today, augmented by the millions of titles published in the interim.

That realization lends a particular urgency to the concerns that people have voiced about the settlement —about pricing, access, and privacy, among other things. But for scholars, it raises another, equally basic question: What assurances do we have that Google will do this right?

Doing it right depends on what exactly "it" is. Google has been something of a shape-shifter in describing the project. The company likes to refer to Google's book search as a "library," but it generally talks about books as just another kind of information resource to be incorporated into Greater Google. As Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, puts it: "We just feel this is part of our core mission. There is fantastic information in books. Often when I do a search, what is in a book is miles ahead of what I find on a Web site."

Seen in that light, the quality of Google's book search will be measured by how well it supports the familiar activity that we have come to think of as "googling," in tribute to the company's specialty: entering in a string of keywords in an effort to locate specific information, like the dates of the Franco-Prussian War. For those purposes, we don't really care about metadata—the whos, whats, wheres, and whens provided by a library catalog. It's enough just to find a chunk of a book that answers our needs and barrel into it sideways.

But we're sometimes interested in finding a book for reasons that have nothing to do with the information it contains, and for those purposes googling is not a very efficient way to search. If you're looking for a particular edition of Leaves of Grass and simply punch in, "I contain multitudes," that's what you'll get. For those purposes, you want to be able to come in via the book's metadata, the same way you do if you're trying to assemble all the French editions of Rousseau's Social Contract published before 1800 or books of Victorian sermons that talk about profanity.

Or you may be interested in books simply as records of the language as it was used in various periods or genres. Not surprisingly, that's what gets linguists and assorted wordinistas adrenalized at the thought of all the big historical corpora that are coming online. But it also raises alluring possibilities for social, political, and intellectual historians and for all the strains of literary philology, old and new. With the vast collection of published books at hand, you can track the way happiness replaced felicity in the 17th century, quantify the rise and fall of propaganda or industrial democracy over the course of the 20th century, or pluck out all the Victorian novels that contain the phrase "gentle reader."

But to pose those questions, you need reliable metadata about dates and categories, which is why it's so disappointing that the book search's metadata are a train wreck: a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.

Start with publication dates. To take Google's word for it, 1899 was a literary annus mirabilis, which saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's Killer in the Rain, The Portable Dorothy Parker, André Malraux's La Condition Humaine, Stephen King's Christine, The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, Raymond Williams's Culture and Society 1780-1950, and Robert Shelton's biography of Bob Dylan, to name just a few. And while there may be particular reasons why 1899 comes up so often, such misdatings are spread out across the centuries. A book on Peter F. Drucker is dated 1905, four years before the management consultant was even born; a book of Virginia Woolf's letters is dated 1900, when she would have been 8 years old. Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities is dated 1888, and an edition of Henry James's What Maisie Knew is dated 1848.

Of course, there are bound to be occasional howlers in a corpus as extensive as Google's book search, but these errors are endemic. A search on "Internet" in books published before 1950 produces 527 results; "Medicare" for the same period gets almost 1,600. Or you can simply enter the names of famous writers or public figures and restrict your search to works published before the year of their birth. "Charles Dickens" turns up 182 results for publications before 1812, the vast majority of them referring to the writer. The same type of search turns up 81 hits for Rudyard Kipling, 115 for Greta Garbo, 325 for Woody Allen, and 29 for Barack Obama. (Or maybe that was another Barack Obama.)

How frequent are such errors? A search on books published before 1920 mentioning "candy bar" turns up 66 hits, of which 46—70 percent—are misdated. I don't think that's representative of the overall proportion of metadata errors, though they are much more common in older works than for the recent titles Google received directly from publishers. But even if the proportion of misdatings is only 5 percent, the corpus is riddled with hundreds of thousands of erroneous publication dates.

Google acknowledges the incorrect dates but says they came from the providers. It's true that Google has received some groups of books that are systematically misdated, like a collection of Portuguese-language works all dated 1899. But a very large proportion of the errors are clearly Google's own doing. A lot of them arise from uneven efforts to automatically extract a publication date from a scanned text. A 1901 history of bookplates from the Harvard University Library is correctly dated in the library's catalog. Google's incorrect date of 1574 for the volume is drawn from an Elizabethan armorial bookplate displayed on the frontispiece. An 1890 guidebook called London of To-Day is correctly dated in the Harvard catalog, but Google assigns it a date of 1774, which is taken from a front-matter advertisement for a shirt-and-hosiery manufacturer that boasts it was established in that year.

Then there are the classification errors, which taken together can make for a kind of absurdist poetry. H.L. Mencken's The American Language is classified as Family & Relationships. A French edition of Hamlet and a Japanese edition of Madame Bovary are both classified as Antiques and Collectibles (a 1930 English edition of Flaubert's novel is classified under Physicians, which I suppose makes a bit more sense.) An edition of Moby Dick is labeled Computers; The Cat Lover's Book of Fascinating Facts falls under Technology & Engineering. And a catalog of copyright entries from the Library of Congress is listed under Drama (for a moment I wondered if maybe that one was just Google's little joke).

You can see how pervasive those misclassifications are when you look at all the labels assigned to a single famous work. Of the first 10 results for Tristram Shandy, four are classified as Fiction, four as Family & Relationships, one as Biography & Autobiography, and one is not classified. Other editions of the novel are classified as 'Literary Collections, History, and Music. The first 10 hits for Leaves of Grass are variously classified as Poetry, 'Juvenile Nonfiction, Fiction, Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, and, mystifyingly, Counterfeits and Counterfeiting. And various editions of Jane Eyre are classified as History, Governesses, Love Stories, Architecture, and Antiques & Collectibles (as in, "Reader, I marketed him.").

Here, too, Google has blamed the errors on the libraries and publishers who provided the books. But the libraries can't be responsible for books mislabeled as Health and Fitness and Antiques and Collectibles, for the simple reason that those categories are drawn from the Book Industry Standards and Communications codes, which are used by the publishers to tell booksellers where to put books on the shelves, not from any of the classification systems used by libraries. And BISAC classifications weren't in wide use before the last decade or two, so only Google can be responsible for their misapplications on numerous books published earlier than that: the 1919 edition of Robinson Crusoe assigned to Crafts & Hobbies or the 1907 edition of Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall, which has been assigned to Gardening.

Google's fine algorithmic hand is also evident in a lot of classifications of recent works. The 2003 edition of Susan Bordo's Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (misdated 1899) is assigned to Health & Fitness—not a labeling you could imagine coming from its publisher, the University of California Press, but one a classifier might come up with on the basis of the title, like the Religion tag that Google assigns to a 2001 biography of Mae West that's subtitled An Icon in Black and White or the Health & Fitness label on a 1962 number of the medievalist journal Speculum.

But even when it gets the BISAC categories roughly right, the more important question is why Google would want to use those headings in the first place. People from Google have told me they weren't included at the publishers' request, and it may be that someone thought they'd be helpful for ad placement. (The ad placement on Google's book search right now is often comical, as when a search for Leaves of Grass brings up ads for plant and sod retailers—though that's strictly Google's problem, and one, you'd imagine, that they're already on top of.) But it's a disastrous choice for the book search. The BISAC scheme is well-suited for a chain bookstore or a small public library, where consumers or patrons browse for books on the shelves. But it's of little use when you're flying blind in a library with several million titles, including scholarly works, foreign works, and vast quantities of books from earlier periods. For example the BISAC Juvenile Nonfiction subject heading has almost 300 subheadings, like New Baby, Skateboarding, and Deer, Moose, and Caribou. By contrast the Poetry subject heading has just 20 subheadings. That means that Bambi and Bullwinkle get a full shelf to themselves, while Leopardi, Schiller, and Verlaine have to scrunch together in the single subheading reserved for Poetry/Continental European. In short, Google has taken a group of the world's great research collections and returned them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore.

Such examples don't exhaust Google's metadata errors by any means. In addition to the occasionally quizzical renamings of works (Moby Dick: or the White Wall), there are a number of mismatches of titles and texts. Click on the link for the 1818 Théorie de l'Univers, a work on cosmology by the Napoleonic mathematician and general Jacques Alexander François Allix, and it takes you to Barbara Taylor Bradford's 1983 novel Voice of the Heart, while the link on a misdated number of Dickens's Household Words takes you to a 1742 Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Numerous entries mix up the names of authors, editors, and writers of introductions, so that the "about this book" page for an edition of one French novel shows the striking attribution, "Madame Bovary By Henry James." More mysterious is the entry for a book called The Mosaic Navigator: The Essential Guide to the Internet Interface, which is dated 1939 and attributed to Sigmund Freud and Katherine Jones. The only connection I can come up with is that Jones was the translator of Freud's Moses and Monotheism, which must have somehow triggered the other sense of the word "mosaic," though the details of the process leave me baffled.

For the present, then, scholars will have to put on hold their visions of tracking the 19th-century fortunes of liberalism or quantifying the shift of "United States" from a plural to singular noun phrase over the first century of the republic: The metadata simply aren't up to it. It's true that Google is aware of a lot of these problems and they've pledged to fix them. (Indeed, since I presented some of these errors at a conference last week, Google has already rushed to correct many of them.) But it isn't clear whether they plan to go about this in the same way they're addressing the scanning errors that riddle the texts, correcting them as (and if) they're reported. That isn't adequate here: There are simply too many errors. And while Google's machine classification system will certainly improve, extracting metadata mechanically isn't sufficient for scholarly purposes. After first seeming indifferent, Google decided it did want to acquire the library records for scanned books along with the scans themselves, but as of now the company hasn't licensed them for display or use—hence, presumably, those stabs at automatically recovering publication dates from the scanned texts.

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Jensen Comment
Ihink the phrase "disaster for scholars" is very misleading. Google's Book Search has certainly been a delight for me. Also Google had the resources and stamina to fend off all the court challenges. In general, the major universities have been in favor of this project from get go.

 A project this massive is bound to have startup problems, but Google is adaptive and will listen to its critics. It's better to have the world's largest digital library than a bunch of decentralized smoke stacks of from the previous century.

Bob Jensen's search helpers ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm

"How To Download Tons Of Free eBooks Online For Any eReader Device," Uveal Blues, April 14, 2011 ---
http://uvealblues.blogspot.com/2011/04/how-to-download-tons-of-free-ebooks.html 

There are a ton of free eBooks out there, no matter what eReader you own—Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, Sony's Reader, etc. And with those eReaders comes fantastic eBook stores for easy browsing and purchasing. They have tons of great digital literature for sell, but you shouldn't waste your money unless necessary (or want to). There's plenty of free options out there, so make sure you exhaust the free before you receive the fee.

The majority of the free eBooks available are either promotional items or older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, which account for nearly 2 million titles. And it doesn't matter what eReader you own, or if you prefer reading digital copies on your computer, because you can convert almost any of the common eBook files into the version you need using something like Calibre.

Okay, enough babbling—here's some of your options.

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Also see Bob Jensen's links to free online books ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm

Center for the Book (Library of Congress) --- http://www.read.gov/cfb

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & More --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/fill_your_new_kindle_ipad_iphone_with_free_ebooks_movies_audio_books_courses_more.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on the history of Ebooks are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Ebooks.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on free courses, lectures, videos, and course materials from prestigious universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Invitation to World Literature --- http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/

The Journal of Electronic Publishing --- http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

Search for electronic books --- http://www.searchebooks.com/ 
There were 293 hits for accounting books.

Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

National Digital Stewardship Alliance --- http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa/index.html

Online Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Online-Literature --- http://www.online-literature.com/

About 800 pages of the world's oldest surviving Christian Bible have been pieced together and published on the Internet for the first time, experts in Britain said Monday --- http://www.physorg.com/news166106367.html

Searchable Bible Online --- http://www.biblegateway.com/ 

Quran online --- http://www.quranexplorer.com/

Scholarly Online Publishing Bibliography --- http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/sepb.html 

"Free for All: National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge," by Josh Fischman, Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2, 2011 ---
Click Here
http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/free-for-all-national-academies-press-puts-all-4000-books-online-at-no-charge/31582?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
This includes such things as books on education assessment and incentives, dietary assessments, health books, and Medicare geography.

storySouth (showcases top fiction) --- http://www.storysouth.com/

Reader's Almanac --- http://blog.loa.org/

Medieval Library: Hesburgh Libraries: Introduction to Medieval Seals --- http://medieval.library.nd.edu/seals/index.shtml

British Classics on the iPad App (Free… For Now --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/british_library_ipad_app.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Online Scholarship:  Make a DASH for Harvard
Harvard's leadership in open access to scholarship took a significant step forward this week with the public launch of DASH—or Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard—a University-wide, open-access repository. More than 350 members of the Harvard research community, including over a third of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have jointly deposited hundreds of scholarly works in DASH.
Harvard University Library, September 1, 2009 --- http://hul.harvard.edu/news/2009_0901.html

Bob Jensen's threads on open sharing of knowledge ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

From MIT
Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

MIT OpenCourseWare: Major European Novels --- http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/21L-472Fall-2008/CourseHome/index.htm

Bartleby's Free Online Books --- http://www.bartleby.com/titles/

Public.Resource.Org --- http://public.resource.org/

Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes: How to Find a Novel, Short Story, or Poem Without Knowing its Title or Author --- http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lost/

Authors: The Portrait Photograph File of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/collection=AuthorsPhotographsfr&col_id=155
Over 150 portraits
 

How do scholars search for academic references? --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Scholars

LibrarySpot (left column library finder links)  --- http://www.libraryspot.com/

Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast --- http://www.readprint.com/

Top Authors Agatha Christie Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe George Orwell Jane Austen Louisa May Alcott Mark Twain O Henry Oscar Wilde Robert Frost William Shakespeare Many others

Top Books Emma Eveline Hamlet Jane Eyre Paradise Lost Peter Pan Pride and Prejudice The Canterbury Tales The Invisible Man The Origin of Species The Secret Adversary

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poetry and American history --- http://www.shmoop.com/

Baldwin Library of Children's Literature, Digital Collection --- http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/UFDC/UFDC.aspx?c=juv

Children's Library --- http://www.archive.org/details/iacl

JURN (search engine for humanities and social science research) --- http://www.jurn.org/

FindBook --- http://www.ufindbook.com/tags/Electronic Literature-1.html

Free e-book of great thinkers: WHAT MATTERS NOW!  --- http://sethgodin.typepad.com/files/what-matters-now-1.pdf
Here, thanks to Seth Godin, are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O'Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber.

Film Literature Index ---  http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/fli/index.jsp

One Million University of Illinois (Free) Books to be Digitized by Google ---
http://www.archive.org/details/university_of_illinois_urbana-champaign
Google Digitized Books --- http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search?q=Accounting
For example, key in the word "accounting"
Then try "Accounting for Derivative Financial Instruments"
Then try "Robert E. Jensen" AND "Accounting"
Update on December 31, 2007
Million Book Project Reaches 1.5 Million Book Mark
From the Carnegie Mellon newsletter... http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2007/November/nov27_ulib.shtml 

Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History ---  http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading/ 
Includes annotated copies belonging to famous authors and poets

Shmoop is an online study guide for English Literature, Poetry and American history --- http://www.shmoop.com/

Delaware Notes (various historical themes, including poetry and literature) --- http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/4445 

Bob Jensen's threads on history tutorials are at http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Bookbob2.htm#History
Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ElectronicLiterature.htm  

Forgotten Books --- http://www.forgottenbooks.org/catalog/index.php

The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online. For the first time since the project was initiated in 2002, all of the books ... are available through a single Web portal of the Universal Library (www.ulib.org), said Gloriana St. Clair, Carnegie Mellon's dean of libraries.
The University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communications Blog, November 30, 2007 --- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

"Million Books Scanned at U. of Michigan -- and Counting," Jeffrey R. Young, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 4, 2008 ---  Click Here

Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5-million to go.

Most of the scanning has been done as part of the library’s controversial deal with Google. The search giant is working with dozens of major libraries around the world to scan the full text of books to add to its index. But Michigan is one of the only institutions to agree to scan every one of its holdings — even those that are still covered by copyright. Some publishers have sued Google for copyright infringement over the scanning effort, though officials from Google say their effort is legal because they are not making the full text of copyrighted books available to the public.

The University of Pittsburgh’s University Library System (ULS) and University Press have formed a partnership to provide digital editions of press titles as part of the library system’s D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program. Thirty-nine books from the Pitt Latin American Series published by the University of Pittsburgh Press are now available online, freely accessible to scholars and students worldwide. Ultimately, most of the Press’ titles older than 2 years will be provided through this open access platform.
The University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communications Blog, December 5, 2007 --- http://www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/scholcomm/

Generation of online libraries is born --- http://physorg.com/news81346069.html

Institute of Museum and Library Services: Primary Source http://www.imls.gov/news/source.shtm

Open Library --- http://www.openlibrary.org/
For a good review, see http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/08/08/mclemee

Open Humanities Press --- http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/

The Digital South Asia Library --- http://dsal.uchicago.edu/

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts --- http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

From the American Library Association
Library Support Staff Resource Center --- Click Here

Electronic Poetry Center [iTunes]  --- http://epc.buffalo.edu/

Off the Page [iTunes poetry] --- http://poetry.eprints.org/

Find Book --- http://www.ufindbook.com/tags/Electronic Literature-1.html

The eBook Directory --- http://www.ebookdirectory.com/search/Literature/

Spark  Notes Study Guides --- http://www.sparknotes.com/

Free Literature About Islam --- http://islam.about.com/od/basicbeliefs/a/freelit.htm

Free English Literature on the Internet --- http://www.anglik.net/literatureonline.htm

Self Made Scholar --- http://selfmadescholar.com/b/2009/04/14/where-to-find-free-literature-and-literature-summaries/

Literature Quizzes --- http://www.actionquiz.com/quiz.php?trivia=literature

The Electronics Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

From The Scout Report on January 23, 2009

Codex Sinaiticus [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/ 

The Codex Sinaiticus is certainly one of the most important books in the world, and this delightful website provides users with a way to view the book in its entirety. The goal of this project is "to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time." The project partners include The British Library, the National Library of Russia, St. Catherine's Monastery, and Leipzig University Library. First-time visitors may wish to click on the "About" area to learn more about the document's tremendous significance (among other things, it includes the oldest complete copy of the New Testament) and to read answers to several frequently asked questions about the Codex Sinaiticus. Anyone with an interest in conservation, digitization, and transcription will want to check out the "About the Project" page. Here they will find information about all of these subjects, and information about translations of the Codex. Finally, visitors will obviously want to head on over to the "See The Manuscript" area. Here they can read a side-by-side translation of each page, zoom in and out on the Codex, and even browse around by passage.

The University of California's eScholarship Repository has recently exceeded five million full-text downloads, according to the university ---
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/17141

Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action (for searching history and museums) --- http://www.imls.gov/collections/index.htm

Project Gutenberg and World eBook Library plan to make ''a third of a million'' e-books available free for a month at the first World eBook Fair. Downloads will be available at the fair's Web site from July 4, the 35th anniversary of Project Gutenberg's founding, through Aug. 4. The majority of the books will be contributed by the World eBook Library. It otherwise charges $8.95 (euro6.98) a year for access to its database of more than 250,000 e-books, documents and articles. But the book fair will not be the last chance for e-bookworms to devour works ranging from ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' to ''Old Indian Legends,'' not to mention dictionaries and thesauruses, without paying for them. Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart, who first announced the ambitious plan a month ago, said Friday the partners are on track to make 1 million books available for the annual fair's one-month run in 2009, with more appearing in subsequent years. About 100,000, he said, will be permanently available at the handful of Project Gutenberg sites on the Internet.
"Electronic book devotees may want to set aside some extra screen time this summer, as two nonprofits are preparing to provide free access to 300,000 texts online," PhysOrg, June 2, 2006 --- http://www.physorg.com/news68484530.html
Project Gutenberg --- http://promo.net/pg/
Project Gutenberg --- http://www.gutenberg.org/ 
World eBook Library --- http://worldlibrary.net/
World eBook Fair --- http://worldebookfair.com/
Also see http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=16956

How many millions of free books were downloaded from the Project Gutenberg online library in the past 30 days?
Answer:  http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top
What were the Top 100 downloads in the past 30 days?

Project Gutenberg --- http://www.gutenberg.org/ 

Forensic Chemistry Lab Manual (includes interesting short  stories) --- http://www.asdlib.org/onlineArticles/elabware/thompson/Home1.html

Project Gutenberg Update --- http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/

The Literary Traveler --- http://www.literarytraveler.com/

Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves --- http://www.themorgan.org/collections/works/cleves/default.asp
Private library of financier Pierpont Morgan

From the University of Virginia
Browse Collections by Language --- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/collections/languages/

Great Books and Classics --- http://www.grtbooks.com/

From Harvard University
Open Collections Programs: Expeditions and Discoveries --- http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/expeditions/

The State University of New York Digital Repository [pdf] http://dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/

Perseus Digital Library --- http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/

Other Free eBook Links:

http://www.readbookonline.net/

http://www.fictionpress.com/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

http://www.free-ebooks.net/

http://manybooks.net/

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/c...

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

http://www.baen.com/library/

http://www.ebooks3.com/

http://www.bookyards.com/

http://www.free-online-novels.com/

http://www.starry.com/novel/authors.htm

http://www.bygosh.com/thebestnovels.htm

http://www.bookspot.com/ask/

http://www.online-literature.com/

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

http://www.infomotions.com/alex/

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/

http://www.literature.org/

American Libtrary Association Archives Digital Collections --- 
http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/ead/ala/digital/ala-digital.html

Rare Book Room --- http://www.rarebookroom.org/

The (alleged) 10 Best Places to Get Free Books --- http://www.friedbeef.com/2007/04/02/top-10-best-places-to-get-free-books-part-1/
(I tend to agree with the choices)

Turning the Page (from the British Library) ---  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

The Pulitzer Prizes --- http://www.pulitzer.org/ 

American Library Association --- http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/booklist.htm

Free eBooks --- http://www.free-ebooks.net/

Great Books Index --- http://books.mirror.org/gb.titles.html

Free Library (in topic categories) --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Full Text Classics --- http://www.bookspot.com/features/fulltextfeature.htm

From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books Page --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

The Nineteenth Century in Print: The Making of America in Periodicals ---
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/moahtml/snchome.html

Serendipity Books --- Click Here

Working Class Movement Library --- http://www.wcml.org.uk/

Streetplay --- http://www.streetplay.com/

The University of Vermont Libraries' Center for Digital Initiatives: Fletcher Family
http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?title=Fletcher Family

Critical Postmodern Theory --- http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/

November 18, 2007 message from Asia Lu [asiaing.lu@gmail.com]

Dear Bob:

I think you maybe interested in this:

Top Ten Free eBook Websites

1. Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

2. Asiaing.com: http://www.asiaing.com

Over 2,000 free ebooks & free magazines. Most of them can be downloaded directly. I love the slogan: "Knowledge shared, power gained!."

3. The Online Books Page: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.

4. PSU's Electronic Classics Site:

http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm

Classic works of Literature.

5. PlanetPDF http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

Classics works of Literature.

6. University of California, eScholarship Edition:

Knowledge Rush --- http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/jsp/db/directory.jsp

http://content.cdlib.org/escholarship/

The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

7. University of Adelaide Library's collection of Web books:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.

8. AvaxHome.ru: http://www.avaxhome.ru

Some new ebooks. Rapidshare download links. Copyright is a problem.

9. The National Academies Press: http://www.nap.edu Read more than 3,000 books online FREE!

10.You! Everyone has his own favorite ebook website. Maybe It's already on the list. Maybe not. It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that you love eBook.

Have a wonderful day.

Asia Lu

Digital Defoe Reviews of 18th Century Literature --- http://www.english.ilstu.edu/digitaldefoe/features/index.shtml

Free Philip K. Dick: Download 11 Great Science Fiction Stories --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2012/01/free_stories_by_philip_k_dick.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Internet Book List --- http://www.iblist.com/

Classics Reader --- http://www.classicreader.com/

University of Missouri Digital Library --- http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/
Includes such things as sheet music and photographs.

American Library Association Mystery Showcase ---
http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/mysteryshowcase/mysteryshowcase.htm

Digital Library Books Page --- http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Free eBooks for your PDA (or iPod) --- http://manybooks.net/

Free from Random House, The 100 Best Novels --- http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

From MIT
The Internet Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library --- http://www.woodrowwilson.org/

From Carnegie-Mellon University
Interactive Fiction Page --- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/wsr/Web/IF/homepage.html
(Somewhat dated but still interesting.)

Great Books (Classics from the Access Foundation) --- http://www.anova.org/ 

Classics at the Online Literature Library --- http://www.literature.org/authors/

Writing World --- http://www.writing-world.com/fiction/

The Reader's Robot --- http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/rr.html

Readprint.com offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. To find the book you desire to read, start by looking through the author index --- http://www.readprint.com/

From the University of Pennsylvania
Online Books Page --- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/new.html

Classic Literature Library --- http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/

The Literature Page (Classics) --- http://www.literaturepage.com/

Harvard Classics Fiction --- http://www.bartleby.com/hc/

Planet eBook (download the classics) --- http://www.planetebook.com/

Poets & Writers --- http://www.pw.org/

Internet Public Library (from the University of Michigan) --- http://www.ipl.org/ 
20,000 electronic texts, and an annotated guide to web sites

Ipl2: Literary Criticism --- http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/guide.html

Imagine a (wiki) library that collected all the world's information about all the world's books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We're building that library.
Open Library (Not yet fully operational) --- http://demo.openlibrary.org/

From the University of Illinois Issues in Scholarly Communication Blog on June 7, 2007 --- Click Here
Internet Archive Texts - a part of the broader Internet Archive, an non-profit organization founded with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages
Google Books
Microsoft's Live Search Books
Amazon's Search Inside

Literature Collection --- http://www.literaturecollection.com/

Free PDF eBooks Archive --- http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

The Literary Encyclopedia --- http://www.litencyc.com/
Note the link to new articles.

Electronic Literature Organization --- http://www.eliterature.org/ 

From the British Library --- http://www.bl.uk/sacred
"The world's greatest collection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy books."

Bibliochaise online library --- http://www.nobodyandco.it/sito/inglese/the bibliochaise.html

Gothic Texts --- http://www.litgothic.com/index_fl.html

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/

Overbooked (includes reviews) --- http://www.overbooked.org/

I like to search for book contents at http://www.lib.uwo.ca/newalpha.shtml 

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announces the availability of a newly-digitized collection of Abraham Lincoln books accessible through the Open Content Alliance and displayed on the University Library's own web site, as the first step of a digitization project of Lincoln books from its collection. View the first set of books digitized at: http://varuna.grainger.uiuc.edu/oca/lincoln/

Lincolniana at Brown (Brown University Lincoln History Library) --- http://dl.lib.brown.edu/lincoln/index.html

Lincoln Memorial Interactive [Flash Player] http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction

Lincoln Memorial Interactive [Flash Player]
http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/ncr/linc/interactive/deploy/index.htm#/introduction

Documents dating back to the early 19th-century about historically black colleges can be viewed online thanks to a new digital collection available to the public. The site includes campus charters, student yearbooks, campus architectural drawings, and photographs from 10 historically black institutions: Alabama State University, Atlanta University Center, Bennett College for Women, Fisk University, Grambling State University, Hampton University, Southern University, Tennessee State University, Tuskegee University, and Virginia State University.
Andrea L. Foster, Chronicle of Higher Education, February 13, 2008 --- Click Here

Journal of Issues in Collegiate Athletics --- http://csri-jiia.org/

Only A Game [iTunes Sports Features] --- http://www.onlyagame.org/

LitWeb --- http://litweb.net/
Find over 500 biographies of the most important writers with our Authors Index, selected bibliographies, and the winners, past and present, of the top literary prizes since they began.

Literature Project --- http://www.literatureproject.com/

The Internet Classics Archive --- http://classics.mit.edu/

Online Library of Literature --- http://www.literature.org/

Literature.org --- http://www.literature.org/ 

Bookyards --- http://www.bookyards.com/

Book TV (CSPAN interviews with authors) ---  http://www.booktv.org

The Literature Network --- http://www.online-literature.com/

Book-a-Minute --- http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Octavo Digital Rare Books --- http://www.octavo.com/

Santa Clara University Virtual Library --- http://campustechnology.com/articles/48506

Library of Congress Information Bulletin --- http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib

Classic Short Stories --- http://www.classicshorts.com/

ShortStories --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/indexframe.html

Short Stories --- http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

East of the Web Short Stories --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/

East of the Web Interactive --- http://www.eastoftheweb.com/hyperfiction/index.html

CELT Corpus of Electronic Texts --- http://www.ucc.ie/celt/publishd.html

Commonwealth Writers Prize --- http://www.commonwealthwriters.com/

Planet PDF (free PDF eBooks) --- http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp?CurrentPage=1

All-Story Short Stories --- http://www.all-story.com/

Salon Books (note especially the posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia in A Russian Diary) --- http://dir.salon.com/topics/books/

Authorama.com, featuring completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline --- http://www.authorama.com/

VYOM eBooks Directory --- http://www.vyomebooks.com/

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers) --- Click Here

eNotes.com features high-quality study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in various academic areas --- http://www.enotes.com/

The Million Books Project at Carnegie Mellon University --- http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/MBP_FAQ.html

Project Gutenberg --- http://www.gutenberg.org/

Bibliomania --- http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/frameset.html

The Hypertexts of Writers and Poets --- http://www.thehypertexts.com/

Read Print (online library) --- http://www.readprint.com/

FullBooks --- http://www.fullbooks.com/ 

Boston Public Library
100 Most Influential Books of the Century Booklists for Adults ---
http://www.bpl.org/research/AdultBooklists/influential.htm

University of Michigan Internet Public Library --- http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/bestsellerFARQ.html

Logos Free Books --- http://www.logosfreebooks.org/ 

University of Adelaide Library’s collection of Web books --- http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/

Find over 500 biographies of the most important writers --- http://litweb.net/

Internet Book List --- http://www.iblist.com/list.php?type=book&key=A&by=genre&genre=4

The Internet Classics Archives from MIT --- http://classics.mit.edu/

The Free Library --- http://www.thefreelibrary.com/

Eye on Europe: prints, books & multiples / 1960 to now --- http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2006/eyeoneurope/

Short Story Classics --- http://shortstory.byethost6.com/

Renascence Editions from the University of Oregon --- http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/ren.htm

Book Table of Contents Finders --- http://alpha.lib.uwo.ca/

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography ---  http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html  

Free Electronic Books --- http://www.awriteshop.com/e_reading.html  
Many of the books are scanned photographs of actual book pages.

Children's Books Online ---  http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/

The Mississippi Review --- http://www.mississippireview.com/

Manybooks.net --- http://www.manybooks.net/  

All About Famous People --- http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/

Russian Folk Tales --- http://russian-crafts.com/tales.html

Writers Write --- http://www.writerswrite.com/

SCHOLARLY ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING BIBLIOGRAPHY http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/
The weblog is online at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepw.htm    

HarperCollins Electronic Books (not free) ---
http://us.perfectbound.com/B3063A9B-5F19-48AB-8598-11F59922FDF4/10/1/en/Default.htm  

Rogue Scholars --- http://roguescholars.com/opus/default.html

LibraryThing --- http://www.librarything.com/ 

BookBrowse.com --- http://www.bookbrowse.com/  
This site is very efficient for finding the latest and greatest books on a wide range of topics.

How to Find Books and Compare Prices --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Books  

Helper Site if You Are Looking for a Book to Read Whichbook --- http://www.whichbook.net/index.jsp  
     (Note that you click on a category and then slide a pointer)

Glossary of Book Collecting Terms --- http://hardyboys.bobfinnan.com/bookterms.htm 

The Experience of Technology in Literature and Art --- http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techlit.htm

World History --- http://www.fsmitha.com/maps.html

Macro History --- http://www.fsmitha.com/

Brainy History --- http://www.brainyhistory.com/ 

History of Costume
Fashion in Color ---  http://ndm.si.edu/EXHIBITIONS/fashion_in_colors/

Find rare and used books on BiblioFind ---
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/books/misc/bibliofind.html/104-2407774-3526314

All-Time Bestselling Books and Authors --- http://www.ipl.org.ar/ref/QUE/FARQ/bestsellerFARQ.html

University of Southern California Digital Archive --- http://digarc.usc.edu:8089/cispubsearch/

The Boston Foundation: Multimedia Library --- http://www.tbf.org/UtilityNavigation/MultimediaLibrary/MultimediaLibraryHome.asp

Boston University Libraries: Research Guides --- http://www.bu.edu/library/guides/

Invitation to World Literature --- http://www.learner.org/courses/worldlit/

Digital Orchid Library from Michigan State University --- http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/orchids/

Prints With/Out Pressure: American Relief Prints from the 1940s through the 1960s http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/pressure/index.html

From NPR
Librarian's Picks: Books for a Rainy Day --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5162810

Rare Book Manuscript Library --- http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/maps.html

Barnes and Noble Book Browser --- http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bookbrowser/Welcome.asp?

Fiction Press --- http://www.fictionpress.com/

ebookshare.net --- http://www.ebookshare.net/

Public.Resource.Org --- http://public.resource.org/

Folger Shakespeare Library --- http://folger.edu/index.cfm 

Remembering George Whitman, Owner of Famed Bookstore, Shakespeare & Company --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/remembering_george_whitman.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Shakespeare in the Parlor (Art, Illustrations, Drawings) ---
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Printsinparlor/shakespeare/index.htm

In Search of Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Lesson Plan ---
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators/language/lessonplan.html

Video
James Earl Jones Reads Othello at White House Poetry Jam --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/03/james_earl_jones_reads_othello_at_white_house_poetry_jam.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Shakespeare's Staging --- http://shakespeare.berkeley.edu/

Arden: World of William Shakespeare --- http://swi.indiana.edu/arden/gi_specs.shtml

From the Scout Report on March 13, 2009

Original Shakespeare portrait unveiled Is This a Shakespeare Which I See Before Me? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/world/europe/10shakespeare.html?ref=world 

Why is this the definitive image of Shakespeare? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7936629.stm 

Shakespeare's first theatre found http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7931823.stm 

William Shakespeare at the National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?search=ss&role=sit&LinkID=mp04051 

William Shakespeare Quiz http://www.npg.org.uk/learning/digital/history/shakespeare-quiz.php 

William Shakespeare Birthplace Trust http://www.shakespeare.org.uk/index.html

The Complete Works of William Shakepeare http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

In Search of Shakespeare: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Lesson Plan ---
http://www.pbs.org/shakespeare/educators/language/lessonplan.html

"Google Books to add Creative Commons books," The Washington Post, August 14, 2009 --- Click Here

Google Inc. is now enabling authors and publishers who release their work under Creative Commons licenses to distribute it through Google Books, a free service that allows users to search and read books online.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that encourages writers, artists and others to use its licensing tools to let their work to be reused and shared by others in certain ways.

In a blog post Thursday, Google Books associate product manager Xian Ke wrote that rights holders who are already part of Google Books' partner program can update their account settings. Those who aren't can sign up to be a partner and choose one of seven different Creative Commons licenses.

People will be able to download these books from Google Books and share them. If rights holders indicate that people can modify their books, readers will be able to do that, too.

Those who download the books will be agreeing that they will only use them in the ways the license says they may. This could include giving the author credit if they remix the work or distribute it publicly,

Bob Jensen's threads on electronic books are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/ebooks.htm

SOURCETEXT.com (with much emphasis on Shakespeare)
A home for specialized, reason-provoking texts that appeal to the eternally curious and to those who value wit and character --- http://www.sourcetext.com/

Literary Locales (from the English Department at San Jose State University) --- http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/places.htm

Book Cover Art by William S. Burroughs --- http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/burroughs-books/index.h

The Literary Encyclopedia is an expanding global literary reference work written by over 1400 specialists from universities around the world, and currently provides over 3550 authoritative profiles of authors, works and literary and historical topics. We will provide over 3800 by the end of this year and aim to publish at least 800 new profiles (circa 1.6m words) in the next 15 months. We also list nearly 19,000 works by date, country and genre, and provide advanced software tools. Membership costs only $17.95 for a full year (circa £10.00 or € 14.50) and helps us to build this valuable resource. In May 2006 we delivered over 1.8m pages to over 500,000 visits.
The Literary Encyclopedia --- http://www.litencyc.com/

From the Scout Report on January 16, 2009

Research posits that Victorian novels may have aided the cause of altruism and fairness in society Victorian novels helped us evolve into better people, say psychologists http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jan/14/victorian-novels-evolution-altruism  

Victorian novels like Pride and Prejudice teach us how to behave
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4239733/Victorian-novels-like-Pride-and-Prejudice-teach-us-how-to-behave.html  

Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels --- http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/ep06715738.pdf 

Believing in 19th century novels
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/jan/14/literature-evolutionary-advantage-university-missouri 

Gruel served up to hungry public http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7825015.stm 

Medieval Food and Cooking: Gruel Recipes http://www.medievalplus.com/food-cooking/recipes-gruel.html

Also see http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookbob2.htm#History

Audio Books and Poems for Listening

Popular High School Books Available as Free eBooks & Audio Books --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/09/popular_high_school_books_available_as_free_ebooks_audiobooks.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29  

Bob Jensen's threads on free lectures, courses, videos, and course materials from prestigious universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

How to download many audio versions of books for free that are not fully available in text formats for free ---
https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#inbox/12f6894f2f3c4351

All About Audio (a Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,186,00.asp 

Electronic Literature Directory --- http://directory.eliterature.org/
(There are links to audio books here)

BBC: Learning English --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

LibriVox Free Audio Books --- http://librivox.org/

Free Classics (audio books) --- http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Internet Archive: Naropa Poetics Audio Archives --- http://www.archive.org/details/naropa

Off the Page [iTunes poetry] --- http://poetry.eprints.org/

Poetry Out Loud [mulitimedia] --- http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ 

Find music and audio books from Akuma --- http://www.akuma.de/

Historical and Philosophical Audio Books --- http://www.ejunto.com/

Dallas Museum of Art - Program Recordings --- http://www.dallasmuseumofart.org/Research/Archives/index.htm

Video:  Remembering Ernest Hemingway, Fifty Years After His Death --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/07/remembering_ernest_hemingway_fifty_years_after_his_death.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Ernest Hemingway --- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway Reads “In Harry’s Bar in Venice” --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2010/04/ernest_hemingway_reads_in_harrys_bar_in_venice.html 

Complete Multimedia Bible w/ James Earl Jones --- Click Here

Anthony Hopkins Reads Dylan Thomas --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/05/anthony_hopkins_reads_dylan_thomas.html

MP3 Quaran --- http://www.quranonline.net/

Morris K. Udall: Oral History Project [pdf, Real Player] http://content.library.arizona.edu/collections/mo_udall_oralhist/
Audio Records of Great Leaders in Congress

Fill Your New Kindle, iPad, iPhone with Free eBooks, Movies, Audio Books, Courses & More --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/12/fill_your_new_kindle_ipad_iphone_with_free_ebooks_movies_audio_books_courses_more.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

Bob Jensen's threads on the history of Ebooks are at
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Ebooks.htm

Bob Jensen's threads on free courses, lectures, videos, and course materials from prestigious universities ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/000aaa/updateee.htm#OKI

Video:  Aldous Huxley Reads Dramatized Version of Brave New World --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2011/06/huxleyreadsbravenewworld.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

From Michigan State University (Audio)
Vincent Voice Library --- http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/

Stories from the Heart of the Land (audio) ---  http://www.nature.org/heart/about/

Hear Carl Sandburg --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6382389

The Living History Farm (Video) --- http://livinghistoryfarm.org/index.html

\South Asian Oral History Project --- http://content.lib.washington.edu/saohcweb/index.html

Turning the Page (from the British Library) ---  http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

From the University of Pennsylvania
PENNsound [audio poetry, literature, and reviews) --- http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

 Virginia Woolf: Her Voice Recaptured --- Click Here
http://www.openculture.com/2010/02/virginia_woolf_her_voice_recaptured.html

From the University of Wisconsin
Beowulf: A New Translation for Oral Delivery --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/Literature/subcollections/RinglBeowulfAbout.shtml

The translation is intended for "oral delivery," that is, to be read or recited aloud. Accordingly this work includes an audio stream in which the translator provides a reading of his version of the poem. This reading is meant to model metrical and rhetorical features of the translation, not to lay down the law about how it should be "performed." It can be listened to uninterruptedly from start to finish--which takes about three hours--or it can be accessed at the beginning of any of the forty-three sections into which it is divided (and which correspond to the numbered sections of the surviving manuscript).

'The Cremation of Sam McGee' (Humorous audio poem) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5672398

Audio Books (a Digital Duo Video) --- http://www.pcworld.com/digitalduo/video/0,segid,189,00.asp

Audio Readings of Poems --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

Kay Ryan, a prize-winning poet who teaches remedial English at the College of Marin, will today be named poet laureate of the United States, The New York Times reported. The article includes links to some of her writing.
Inside Higher Ed, July 17, 2008 --- http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/07/17/qt

• The Poet's View --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFCP5dCfynI
• Casa Romantica --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czWFAOMNLH

Academy of American Poets (also has audio) --- http://www.poets.org/

The British Library: Listen to Nature [Audio] http://www.bl.uk/listentonature

Favorite Poem Project (videos) --- http://www.favoritepoem.org/

Poetry Online (read and/or listen to the poems) --- http://www.wiredforbooks.org/poetry/

BBC Radio 4: The Living World --- http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/livingworld.shtml

Jane Fonda's Broadcasts on Radio Hanoi (audio) --- http://www.wintersoldier.com/index.php?topic=FondaHanoi

From the University of Virginia (more than just an online version of the book)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin & American Culture --- http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/

James Joyce's Poems Get a Musical Facelift --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91757715  

From Harvard University
Listen to Milman Parry’s field recordings on-line! The first of the recordings slated for digital reformatting as part of our ongoing digitalization project are now available. Use the Collection Database or the Milman Parry Songs page to access digital materials --- http://chs.harvard.edu/mpc/

From NPR
Jack Gilbert: Notes from a Well-Observed Life (with audio readings of four poems) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5370284

WindowsMedia.com http://www.windowsmedia.com/ 
A search engine for online audio and video

Word for Word (news) --- http://wordforword.publicradio.org/

Audio Resources for Literature --- http://www.nt.armstrong.edu/audio.htm

Dan Roberts delivers two-minute history lessons on public radio stations around the world. --- http://www.amomentintime.com/

Free audio book downloads --- http://www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com/

Voices in the Dark (audio books) --- http://www.voicesinthedark.com/content.php?iContent=50

HarperCollins Audio Books --- http://www.harpercollins.com/channels.asp?channel=Audio

History of Politics Outloud (audio) --- http://www.hpol.org/

The Experience of Technology in Literature and Art --- http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/techlit.htm

Audio Books, Clips, Lectures, and Speeches --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/searchh.htm#Audio

Ruth Padel reads her poems --- http://www.ruthpadel.com/

Poetry Everywhere --- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/poetryeverywhere/

Thought Audio free MP3 downloads --- http://www.thoughtaudio.com/

Talking History:  Aural History Productions (audio) --- http://www.talkinghistory.org/

The Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound Recordings ---
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gramophone/index-e.html

From NPR
History in Audio --- http://www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/audio/

Poetry Archive (with audio readings) ---  http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do

Podcast Central from TechWeb --- http://www.techweb.com/podcasts/

Documenting the American South: Oral Histories --- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/index.html

Documenting the American South: Oral Histories of the American South ---  http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/

From NPR
Skyler Pia: 'One World, One Kid,' One Good Cause (audio) --- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5343500

Book TV (CSPAN interviews with authors) ---  http://www.booktv.org

THE HYPE MACHINE audio blog aggregator --- http://hype.non-standard.net/

National Institutes of Health: Radio --- http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/index.htm

Augusten Burroughs' Mother Speaks Out (poems with audio) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6209286

Love, War and History: Israel's Yehuda Amichai (audio poetry) ---
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9699843

Sound Effects Library --- http://www.audiolicense.net/sfx/

Slave Narratives --- http://moadsf.org/salon/exhibits/slave_narratives/flash.php

From the University of Wisconsin:  South African Voices --- http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/SouAfrVc/

The Cornell Daily Sun Digitization Project --- http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/

Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac (audio) --- http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

Invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, the phonograph was a device with a cylinder covered with a soft material such as tin foil, lead, or wax on which a stylus drew grooves --- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/
The University of California at Santa Barbara has over 6,000 historic cylindars that you can now listen to free over online
Cylindar Radio --- http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

University Channel (video and audio) ---  http://uc.princeton.edu/main/

The University Channel makes videos of academic lectures and events from all over the world available to the public. It is a place where academics can air their ideas and present research in a full-length, uncut format. Contributors with greater video production capabilities can submit original productions.

The University Channel presents ideas in a way commercial news or public affairs programming cannot. Because it is neither constrained by time nor dependent upon commercial feedback, the University Channel's video content can be broad and flexible enough to cover the full gamut of academic investigation.

While it has unlimited potential, the University Channel begins with a focus on public and international affairs, because this is an area which lends itself most naturally to a many-sided discussion. Perhaps of greatest advantage to universities who seek to expand their dialog with overseas institutions and international affairs, the University Channel can "go global" and become a truly international forum.

The University Channel aims to become, literally, a "channel" for important thought, to be heard in its entirety. Television has become so much a part of the fabric of our world that it should be more than an academic interest. It should be an academic tool.

The University Channel project is an initiative of Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which is leading the effort to build university membership and distribution partners. Technical support, advice and services are provided through the generosity of Princeton University's Office of Information Technology. Digital video solutions courtesy of Princeton Server Group.

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Open Science Directory --- http://www.opensciencedirectory.net/

JSTR - The Scholarly Journal Archive --- http://www.jstor.org/

Electronic Literature Organization --- http://www.eliterature.org/ 

Internet Library of Early Journals --- http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ilej/

Royal Society Opens Online Archive; Puts 60,000 Papers Online --- Click Here
 http://www.openculture.com/2011/10/royal_society_opens_online_archive_puts_60000_papers_online.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29

All Free Magazines (links to free magazines) --- http://www.all-freemagazines.com/mag.html
These are classified by subject matter.
Many are offer free trial subscriptions for one year.

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