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What books are free online?
You will not find most textbooks
online. You will find many classic works of fiction, non-fiction and
poetry, plus important cultural and historical texts.
The year to remember is 1923.
Books copyrighted prior to January 1, 1923, were protected for 75 years.
As copyrights expired those books became part of the public domain and
can now be legally posted online. Copyright laws have changed, and books
written after 1923 won’t begin to enter the public domain until 2019.
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Where can I find books
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The Online Books Page |
The Online
Books Page
is the best place to start your search for free online books. Sponsored
by the University of Pennsylvania, this site allows you to search by
title or author and returns results from a variety of web sites. |
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| Google Book Search |
The Google Book Search: Google is working with several large libraries to put their collections online. Users can find information about books by topic, or locate a search term in a few lines of text. The full text of books no longer protected by copyright is available. |
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Other good places to look: |
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Project Gutenberg |
Project Gutenberg is sponsored by a nonprofit
foundation and has made more than 6,000 books available online using
volunteer proofreaders. |
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University of Virginia’s E-book Library |
University
of Virginia’s E-book Library
includes some 1,800 publicly available books, including classic British
and American fiction, children’s literature, the Bible, American
history, and a collection of documents by and about African-Americans. |
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Bartleby.com |
Bartleby.com
is sponsored by a privately held company based in New York. The site is
searchable by author, title and subject and includes thousands of titles
and large collections of poetry and quotations. |
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The Litrix Reading Room |
The Litrix Reading Room
is maintained by Stan Jones, a mystery writer who lives in Anchorage,
Alaska. His site includes a collection of titles about the North, as
well as sections featuring horror, science fiction, mysteries, westerns
and other genres. A Google search tool is provided for locating titles
or authors. |
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Washington State Historical
Documents Project |
Washington State
has started a project that will allow you to research original
Documents, Books, Maps, and Newspapers. There are many different
historical documents included in this project. |
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Library Home Page |
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South Puget
Sound Community College Homepage
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