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Browse books online. If the book is out of copyright or the publisher has given permission, you will be able to see a preview of the book and, in some cases, the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you are free to download a PDF copy.
  • 20 Best Websites To Download Free E-Book.
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  • Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts.
    A collection of digital documents in the subject areas of English and American literature and Western philosophy.

  • Bartleby.com.
    Searchable full text of The Harvard Classics, the King James Bible, Shakespeare, Gray's Anatomy, Strunk's Elements of Style, the World Factbook and much more.

  • Classic Bookshelf.com.
    Full text of classic books is made accessible in electronic format. This site uses a Java applet to present text in customizable sizes and colors to make reading the electronic book more enjoyable.

  • Directory of Open Access Journals.
    This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, attempting to cover all subjects and languages. There are now over 2200 journals in the directory. Currently over 600 journals are searchable at article level.

  • eBooks from the University of Adelaide.
    Listed alphabetically by title, author, or theme. Also keyword search the full content of the entire collection.

  • Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.
    Contains an online archive of thousands of electronic texts. Includes documents in English, French, German, Japanese, and Latin.

  • Internet Public Library Books Collection.
    From the Internet Public Library, this beautifully done catalog of over 7,500 full-text online publications, from Alice In Wonderland to Zen and the Art of the Internet, is searchable by author, title, or keyword. It is also browsable by Dewey number or alphabetically by author or title.

  • The Literature Network.
    Full text of over 300 books, 1,000 short stories and poems, and over 8,500 quotes.

  • Manybooks.net.
    Over 25,000 free eBooks available to download in formats for nearly every eBook reader, including Kindles and iPods, or free read online.

  • Open J-Gate.
    A database of journal articles, indexed from over 3000 open access journals, with links to full text at publisher sites. You can limit your searches to peer-reviewed journals and/or professional and industrial journals.

  • Project Gutenberg.
    The oldest producer of free electronic books on the Internet. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.

  • Scribd.
    Shared eBooks, maps, manuals, presentations, schoolwork, poetry, fan fiction, essays, and much more. Create a free account and upload or download as many free books and publications as you wish.

  • Wikibooks.
    A community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.

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