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websites to help connect readers to just the right books
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Authorama
completely free public domain books from a variety of different authors, collected in one place. To read online or offline.
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Bartleby Free Harvard Classics – complete volumes of the most comprehensive and well-researched anthology of all time (read-online, no downloads offered).
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Biblioboard "Just Read it" eBooks and more - no waiting, no overdues. Part of the subscription services available to you with a valid RPL card.
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BookBoon Empowering you to succeed, academically and professionally, at university (free textbooks), and in business (business books free for 30 days, then by subscription). NOTE: this is a London based site, so books will mostly be from the UK). |
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Bibliomania
800+ texts of classic literature, drama, and poetry, together with detailed literature study guides. Large reference book and non-fiction section. |
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Books Should Be Free Thousands of free public domain books, audiobooks, text files. More than 30 languages.
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Classic Literature Library Public domain books organized into collections. The complete works of William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens or Mark Twain, among others.
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DailyLit Read an eBook in daily installments, delivered by mail or RSS feed. Content includes their own serialized fiction, classic novels, short stories, horror, coming of age, and more
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Digital Public Library of America DPLA is aimed at giving universal access to digital resources of American libraries and archives. The Bookshelf catalog includes over 1.6 million items. Perform a search, and from a book detail page, you’ll be redirected to a relevant website, where you can further read it online or download.
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Europeana Europeana offers access to millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, and archives.
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FeedBooks Discover thousands of eBooks, including new releases and the best collection of free public domain books, that you can read on any mobile device.
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Free Computer Books Free computer, mathematics, technical books, lecture note, and more
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Free-eBooks.net Thousands Of FREE Ebooks To Read Whenever & Wherever You Like!
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Google Books Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.
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Hoopla Borrow up to four items a month. Music, movies, books, and more! Items are always available - no waiting or holds! Part of the subscription services available to you with a valid RPL card.
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International Children's Digital Library The ICDL Foundation promotes tolerance and respect for diverse cultures by providing access to the best of children's literature from around the world.
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Internet Archive A non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 350 billion archived web pages.
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Legamus! This site makes free audio books from texts that entered the public domain in Europe.
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LibriVox Free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world. Also available as an app.
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Literature Network Searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. Over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors, and over 8500 quotes.
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Many Books Great selection of modern and classic books waiting to be discovered. All free and available in most ereader formats.
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Net Galley Designed to help "readers of influence" (librarians, booksellers, educators, reviewers, bloggers, or media employees) discover and recommend new books to their audiences.
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Online Books Page An index of over three million online books freely readable on the Internet. Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts. Information on how readers can help support the growth of online books. Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.
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Open Library An open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.
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Overdrive eBooks and eAudiobooks, including Kindle format. Try the Libby app! Part of the subscription services available to you with a valid RPL card.
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Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. It is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".
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PDF Book World Free eBooks - fiction, non-fiction, academic, textbooks, and children's categories - for download in a high quality PDF format.
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QUESTIA Over 5000 public domain classic and rate books by some of literature's greatest authors.
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RBDigital Downloadable audiobooks, eBooks, and more!
Part of the subscription services available to you with a valid RPL card.
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RB Digital Magazines Over 70 full-color, full-text magazines. Read on your computer or through the RBDigital app. Part of the subscription services available to you with a valid RPL card.
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Read Print Library Puts thousands of online books at your fingertips.
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Internet Sacred Text Archive The most comprehensive, freely available archive of online books on religion, mythology, folklore, and the esoteric ever assembled.
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Slide Share A hosting service for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Owned by LinkedIn.
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SmashWords A global ebook distributor serving authors, publishers, readers and major ebook retailers. Ideal for publishing novels, personal memoirs, poetry chapbooks, short and long-form fiction, and non-fiction. If you've written it, SmashWords want to help you share it and sell it.
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Scribd A digital library, e-book and audiobook subscription service that includes one million titles. Free 30 day trial subscription, fees apply after that.
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Wiki Books A Wikimedia community creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
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World Public Library The World Library Foundation has the world's largest collection of Books and Articles in electronic format: digital facsimiles of historical books, classic works of literature, serials, bibliographies, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other heritage works in a number of languages.
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