Books on the Web / Electronic Texts:

• Accessible Book Collection
  A fee-based subscriber service that provides high-interest, low-reading level digital text in html for people with a documented disability that prevents reading standard print.
  
  
• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts
  Collection of digital documents, including American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. Can read online as “Local Copy” or download as an ebook.
  
  
• Audible.com
  A fee-based service that includes 4,500 audiobooks and 14,000 other audio programs in a broad range of subjects. Available for downloading to a computer, for transfer to a player, or for burning onto a CD.
  
  
• Avalon Project at Yale Law School
  Legal documents dating from pre-18th Century to the present.
  
  
• Bartleby.com
  Dictionaries, thesauri, poetry, quotations, and public domain fiction and non-fiction titles.
  
  
• Bibliomania
  Classic fiction, drama, poetry, short stories, and contemporary articles and interviews. Also has study guides, reference books, author biographies, and book summaries.
  
  
• BookShare.org
  A fee-based service for people with visual or other print disabilities. Readers must have access to computers with assistive technology such as refreshable braille displays or synthetic speech in order to use these digital files.
  
  
• Braille Book Files
  A password-protected site that offers books at all grade levels, submitted by teachers and transcribers, for people with visual or other print disabilities. Site is maintained by the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
  
  
• Classic Reader
  Free literature in the public domain, including works of fiction, non-fiction, drama, children’s titles, poetry, Shakespeare, and short stories. Includes a plain text format.
  
  
• Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Library
  Has approximately 70,000 humanities texts in many languages including related images such as book illustrations, covers, and manuscripts.
  
  
• English Server Fiction Collection
  Stories, novels, magazines, poetry, drama, and links.
  
  
• Fictionwise
  Sells ebooks in various formats.
  
  
• Great Books Foundation
  Comprehensive list of organizations that produce Great Books Foundation titles in formats suitable for the visually impaired. Formats include books produced in large print, Braille, and audio books on tape.
  
  
• International Electronic Braille Book Library
  Over 1,000 electronic braille books, including classics and publications of the National Federation of the Blind. Files are in contracted braille ASCII format and may be red online or downloaded.
  
  
• Internet Public Library
  A library on the web, including online books. See the link under Reading Room, Books.
  
  
• LibriVox
  LibriVox provides totally free audiobooks from the public domain.
  
  
• Merck Manual Home Edition
  Online version of a standard health reference book.
  
  
• Modern English Collection
  Includes works by African American and Native American authors, texts for young readers, and best sellers from 1900 to 1930. Some of the text files are restricted to University of Virginia users.
  
  
• Online Books Page
  Serves as an index to more than 18,000 public domain books on the web, searchable by author, title, and subject.
  
  
• Open Library
  The Open Library was created to allow free web access to important book collections from around the world.
  
  
• Page by Page Books
  Hundreds of public domain classics, including US historical documents and presidential inaugural addresses.
  
  
• Project Gutenberg
  Comprehensive collection of electronic texts.
  
  
• Questia
  Fee-based subscriber service offering books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences.
  
  
• Recorded Books
  Recorded Books is one of the world's largest independent publisher and distributor of unabridged audiobooks on cassettes and CDs, narrated by professional actors. You can purchase or rent.
  
  
• Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  For the scholar or general reader.
  
  
• The Making of America (MoA)
  A rich collection of 19th century books and journals from the University of Michigan. Topics range from American social history from the antebellum period, through reconstruction.
  
  
• The Million Book Project
  An international library partnership with the Internet Archive, offering a free-to-read, searchable digital library of over 10,612 items.
  
  
• Tiflolibros: E-Books for the Blind
  More than 5,000 digital books in Spanish for registered subscribers.
  
  
• Wired for Books
  Author interviews, poetry, children’s titles, and more, most of them in RealAudio.