Virtual Reference Desk: Electronic Books (Ebooks)

  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (American & English literature & Western philosophy)
  • ATHENA Authors & Texts (multilingual index to 3500 e-texts in literature, arts and sciences)
  • Bartleby.com (great books online; the preëminent Internet publisher of literature, reference, and verse)
  • Digital Library Connection (Cleveland Public Library's e-book site with thousands of full-text fiction and non-fiction titles, including audio books. A Clevnet library card is required to check out a book)
  • Ebrary - A collection of thousands of online full text books and other materials in the areas of business, marketing, and commerce.
  • Electronic Book Center (Offers access to thousands of scholarly and reference e-books covering the humanities, sciences and social sciences.)
  • Electronic Text Center: University of Virginia (online archive of thousands of SMGL-encoded electronic texts)
  • EServer.org (20,000 humanities texts by the former English Server)
  • The Etext Archives (electronic texts of all kinds, provided without judging their content)
  • Google Book Search
  • GPO Access (provides free public access to full-text, official Federal information, Federal information finding aids, and Federal products for sale.)
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