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• On-line Books Page
  More than 17.000 English works in various formats
  
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• Orange Street Press Classics
  Classic literature in Adobe Portable Document Format read online, download, print
• Palmclassics.com
  Project Gutenberg texts formatted for the Palm
• Papyrus
  The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt
  
  
  
• Planet PDF
  Free PDF eBooks Archive
• Project Gutenberg
  There are three portions of the Project Gutenberg Library, basically described as:
  • Light Literature; such as Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass,Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.
  • Heavy Literature; such as the Bible or, Shakespeare,Moby Dick, Paradise Lost, etc.
  
  

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• Reading Room
  Pull Up a Chair, Fix a Cup of Tea, and Settle in for a Good Read
• Safari Tech Books Online
  Electronic versions of technical books
• Secular Web Library
  Theism, Secularism, Evolution
• Searchebooks.com
  Electronic books searches
  
  
  
• Tarlton Law Library
  The Law in Popular Culture E-text Collection
• The Harvard Classics
• The Internet Sacred Text Archive
• The Literature Network
  Online literature for the student, educator an enthusiast
• The Royal Society journals
  Digitalized journals from The Royal Society since 1665
• The Transformation Stories Archive
  The Transformation Stories Archive is a big Anthology. You'll find over 400 stories of physical transformation here. The stories are sorted roughly by theme and kind of transformation
• The Virtual Library of Virginia
• University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative
  American Verse Project
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Library
• Victorian Women Writers Project
  Highly accurate transcriptions of literary works by British women writers of the late 19th century
• Virtual Computer Library
  VCL is a collection of links to information about computers and computing
• Washington University Library
  Electronic Texts & Documents - Amazing depth of historical subjects available
• WinEbook Library
  The EBooks are freeware and may be freely distributed if distributed in their entirety. Download the WinEbook Viewer to read these books
• Wiretap Online Library
  
  
• Other resources:
  • Electronic Text Center at UVA and its modern English collection
  • Humanities Text Initiative (at UMichigan)
  • Oxford Text Archive
  • Etext.org archives (lots of e-zines and shorter or unpublished etexts)
  • Project Bartleby Great Books Online
  • Samizdat Express (eclectic collection of texts and pointers)
  • University of Toronto English Library
  • Electronic Open Stacks (preservation digitization at Chicago)

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