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Although their user interface is not as friendly as those above, at the Digital Book Index you can browse or search through links to over 140,000 free books online. The British Library Online Gallery lets you view images of 30,000 rare books.
More links from the British Columbia Digital Library: General Online Book Collections Directories, Guides, Portals, Search eBooks, particularly public domain eBooks that are simple .txt files, can be uncomfortable to read from a PC display. BookReader is a comfortable freeware e-book viewer that solves this problem. BookReader reformats text documents to represent them on your screen according to your preferences. It remembers the reading position for each book from your personal library. Text and the page layout are fully customizable: you can alter fonts, colors, page dimensions, borders, textures, etc. The FictionMags Index lists the contents of popular fiction magazines. "Particular emphases are on the “Gaslight” magazines of circa 1880-1914, the pulp magazines of the first half of the 20th century, the “Big Slick” magazines of the mid-20th century, the digest-sized magazines of the 1950s and 1960s — and any other areas of magazine publishing which have been important for fiction." 18th Century Literature provides links to 18th century literature resources, including books. Library Journal Digital "is an electronic offshoot of Library Journal, the oldest independent national library publication" founded in 1876. Of particular interest is the excellent 'WebWatch' section, which gives good descriptions of many good websites. Poetry.com provides reading material and has a poetry writing contest. Poems.com Screenwriting.info provides help for beginning screenwriters. Playwrights' help can be found at Playwriting 101. iUniverse, as they put it, is 'The leading open publisher...opening publishing to everyone. We have made it easier than ever to bring your manuscript or out-of-print titles to print.' Upload your manuscript and they'll give you a website, an ISBN number, and a deal for 'instant publishing' hard copy sales through the major vendors. The Postmodern Generator is a demonstration of software that writes essays by linking quotes and jargon. Writer's Digest Free Books and Classic articles (most from the NY Times or LA Times)
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from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle $4.95 at Amazon.com or read it online free "Really Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without posessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it..." "Has anything escaped me," I asked with some self-importance... "I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth." |
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