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Adelaide University Electronic Texts Collection This growing collection of e-texts - currently around 1,500 - includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Their own web editions, in HTML.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.auANU E-Print Repository From the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory). Holding over 47,000 items as of May 2009. Material from 1967 on, mostly, is included. User registration (there is no charge) is required for some parts of the site.
http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/39729Looking for ANU PhD theses? Go to: http://thesis.anu.edu.au
Australian e-Humanities Gateway is an initiative of the Australian e-Humanities Network, a group funded by the Australian Research Council.The network includes representatives from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the University of Sydney and the University of Newcastle. A portal for digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia.
www.ehum.edu.auAustralasian Digital Theses This portal site provides direct Web access to digital versions of postgraduate theses hosted by its member participants, viz. 41 universities in Australia and New Zealand. The theses are searchable by author, title and subject. Note that only a few theses may be available from the pre-digital era . In PDF format.
http://adt.caul.edu.au/Cochrane Library Contains helpful, authoritative information on the effectiveness of different health care treatments and interventions. This scientific medical site has limited free access for Australians and New Zealanders through national subscriptions, and may be accessed by anyone surfing the Web from the".au" or ".nz" domains. A good place to start your research.
www.cochrane.org.au/library/Curtin University of Technology Institutional Repository provides access to research produced by Curtin University of Technology staff and postgraduate students. More than 3,000 items were available as at May 2009 covering material from 1978 onwards.
http://espace.lis.curtin.edu.au/Deakin Research Online Deakin University's institutional digital repository is a new starter off the blocks. Browse it by Author Name, Subject or Community/Collection, or search by title. www.deakin.edu.au/dro/
epublications@bond is an open access repository of research and scholarly output of Bond University staff and students, and of historical & archival material about the University. In October 2008 it reached the milestone of 2,000 items. Contains a spectrum of academic papers from all faculties; scholarly journals; theses; and a growing collection of historical photographs.
http://epublications.bond.edu.au/Flinders Digital Archive Scholarly work of Flinders staff, organised by department/school. Search also by title, author, subject or date. Held around 3750 items as of June 2009. As with all such material, please do not violate the conditions of use, which are legally binding. In PDF. http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/dspace/handle/2328/1890
JCU ePrints James Cook University ePrints provides free access to the research output of James Cook University's academic staff and post-graduate students. Around 1,400 items held as of June 2009. Can be searched by subject, year, author and latest publications added. In PDF.
http://eprints.jcu.edu.au/La Trobe University Research Repository Holds a wide range of materials including books, book chapters, articles, research papers/reports, technical reports, and working, discussion & conference papers. Over 12,000 items available as at June 2009.
http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/arrow/Monash University ePrint Repository The Monash University ePrint Repository showcases and archives quality research output of Monash University staff. More than 4,000 items held at May 2009. Holdings include two specialised music collections, Gippsland historical images and Business and Economics working papers.
http://eprint.monash.edu.au/Project Gutenberg of Australia produces books in electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in accordance with Australian copyright law, usually in plain text. Hosts a number of specialised Australian collections, including a Library of Australiana, Australia's Greatest Books., Australian Explorers & Australian History.
NB: Under Australian copyright law, literary, dramatic, & musical work published, performed, communicated, or recorded and offered for sale in an author's lifetime are protected for the life of the author plus fifty years from the end of the year of the author's death. After this time they enter into the public domain. Some e-books available here may still be under copyright in the United States (where local laws have several times extended copyright to levels not accepted within Australian jurisdiction). Such works are therefore not available from the US site of Project Gutenberg.
http://gutenberg.net.au/QUT ePrints An institutional archive of research papers produced at Queensland University of Technology by QUT staff and postgraduate students. Items now deposited span from 1970 to date, and this fast-growing new collection already offers around 15,000 of them (at May 2009). Since 2004 it has been QUT policy that publicly available research and scholarly output of the University should bedeposited here.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/Research Online is an open access digital archive promoting the scholarly output of the University of Wollongong, It houses over 4,350 research papers (as of June 2009). Browse by faculty, author, series or search term.
http://ro.uow.edu.au/Sydney eScholarship Repository / SETIS SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service at the University of Sydney Library) and the Sydney eScholarship Repository holds a variety of collections. These include Australian Literary and Historical Texts (currently over 300 items, which incorporate the Ozlit collection formerly hosted by VicNet). There are also over 780 University of Sydney digital theses; and a range of scholarly or research oriented works produced or sponsored by University of Sydney faculties, departments, schools or research centres. The last group includes articles, technical reports, working papers, conference papers, Audio/Video, datasets and images. NB: While you may access many SETIS listed texts from the Web, some are commercially licensed and available only to users at the University of Sydney.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/ http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/UMER - University of Melbourne ePrints Repository Goal: to showcase and preserve the research output of University of Melbourne academic staff and students. Held almost 2,700 items at June 2009.The oldest item dates back to 1945. In order to access some areas of the archive, you'll need a user registration (no charge).
http://eprints.unimelb.edu.auUQ eSpace The University of Queensland's digital repository. Set up in 2002, it covers material created since 1983, although most dates from 1998 on. Includes e-books, e-chapters, online journals, various articles, working papers, conference papers and proceedings, posters, miscellaneous research output, and pre-publication (draft) material. All up, more than 80,000 items as at May 2009. OAI-compliant, the repository includes research output of UQ academic staff and postgraduate students, both before and after peer-reviewed publication. Formats used are HTML, ASCII text, PDF & Postscript.
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/
UTasER The University of Tasmania ePrint Repository. Research materials covering as far back as 1470 AD have now been deposited here, and the holdings include books, journal articles, conferencepapers, images and theses. There were more than 2,300 items at May 2009.
http://eprints.utas.edu.au/
Best free Digital Libraries - NZ
Early New Zealand Books . Works about traditional Maori society and culture and the earliest British settlements. In chapters online, includes enlargeable images. Around 150 texts available. Please note conditions of use. Provided by the University of Auckland.
www.enzb.auckland.ac.nz/New Zealand Digital Library Collections available include historical documents, humanitarian and development information, computer science technical reports and bibliographies, literary works, and magazines. A project of the University of Waikato, variously in HTML and PDF.
www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/libraryNew Zealand Electronic Text Centre Online archive of New Zealand and Pacific Islands texts and heritage materials - full-text books, manuscripts and journals, plus images. A large and growing collection. You may download and print text and images for your own personal and non-commercial use only. XML-based; a variety of formats may be available.
www.nzetc.org/Research Commons - University of Waikato A digital repository promoting and preserving the scholarly outputs of researchers at the University of Waikato. Offers free, open access to university research. Holding almost 1650 items as of June 2009. http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/
www.nzetc.org/ResearchSpace@Auckland ResearchSpace is a digital repository or archive for University of Auckland digital theses and research materials. Browse it by Communities & Collections, Issue Date, Author, Title or Subject. Around 3250 items deposited as at June 2009. http://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/
UC Research Repository A collection of selected theses, journal articles, conference papers and other research at the University of Canterbury - all in full-text. An open-access archive, containing nearly 2500 items at June 2009.
http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/ScholarlyCommons@AUT (Putunga Rangahau) is the central archive and repository for the long-term preservation of Auckland University of Technology research and scholarly output in digital formats. Free, open access to university research. At present contains theses and dissertations deposited with AUT University Library.
http://aut.researchgateway.ac.nz/index.jsp
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 28,000 books. The whole collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since 1971.
The Project Gutenberg philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search. Their books are usually in plain text (ASCII) format. However to improve the online reading experience you can also use other reader software.
www.gutenberg.orgAlex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
www.infomotions.com/alexarXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, biology, finance, statistics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From Cornell University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA), the National Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of Adelaide (Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI. Gives open access to over half a million e-prints.
www.arxiv.org
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, & USA.Athena Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.htmlBartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works are available here.
www.bartleby.com/index.htmlBibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus reference books, biographies and other research works. In HTML format, readable by your web browser.
www.bibliomania.comBibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Anglica, Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica, Italica, Iiddica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica. Collectio textuum electronicorum. Hae paginae proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina - facta et ficta.
www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.htmlCELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). Over one thousand Irish literary, historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English. Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
www.ucc.ie/celtCogPrints Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive - Includes a wide variety of papers in psychology,neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer science. Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since 1990. Some areas of the archive require registration, to obtain a username and password. *Eprints here are defined as the digital texts of peer-reviewed research articles, before and after refereeing. Before refereeing and publication, the draft is called a "preprint." The refereed, published final draft is called a "postprint." Eprints may include both preprints and postprints, as well as any significant drafts in between, and any post publication updates.
http://cogprints.soton.ac.ukComplete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.htmlCornell University Library Historical Monographs Comprises 441 general monographs made available for online viewing as TIFF images, for personal or research use only. Languages include English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Portuguese & Spanish. A fascinating mishmash of topics, including some science.
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl/The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) An archive of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which is held in common or by a community). Many useful features for both readers and contributing authors. Includes a full-text Digital Library of articles, papers, and dissertations, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to relevant references. Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP) & the Indiana University Graduate School. As Adobe PDF files.
http://dlc.dlib.indiana.eduDigital Library for Earth System Education: DLESE Over 5,000 searchable educational resources. Items are also organized into themes or collections, broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical and other physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and educational issues and the philosophy of science. Resources are not archived on site but in a variety of collaborating collections. Funded by the National Science Foundation (USA).
www.dlese.org/dds/index.jspDigital Library of Information Science and Technology: dLIST A repository of over 1,400 electronic resources in many subject areas, especially Library and Information Science (LIS), digital Web disciplines and Information Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets instructional and help materials, pathfinder , reports & bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration required to access some areas. In HTML or PDF.
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/Ebooks Online Library Around thirty-six authors ranging from Aesop to Sun Tzu, with huge representation of Arnold Bennett, Anton Chekhov, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe & Oscar Wilde, plus a goodly measure of Ambrose Bierce, Jules Verne, Jane Austen & Mark Twain. In very clear HTML for online reading, this collection has been sourced from Project Gutenberg and prepared with special attention to the needs for visually impaired and older readers. You can set the font size & colour, or background colour, with just a click in the Settings panel. www.readasily.com/
Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides and fan art. The site holds over half a million works of art & literature by over 35,000 Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers. Formerly hosted by a Swedish computer society, Lysator.
http://www.elfwood.com/The E Server Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large (over 35,000) & contemporary collection of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington. The illustrated subject links are a nice touch too.
http://eserver.orgElectronic Text Collections in Western European Literature Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English. Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Old Norse, Portuguese,Romanian, Spanish & Swedish.
www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.htmlElectronic Texts On The Internet A useful links page with over sixty entries. For some light relief, check out the Shakespearean Insult Generator.
www.refdesk.com/factelec.htmlEuroDocs Primary historical documents from Europe (including Russia, Belarus and Ukraine). Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations. Presented as: Prehistoric & Ancient Europe,Medieval & Renaissance Europe, Europe as a Supranational Region, and some forty-seven national jurisdictions ranging from tiny Andorra to the major states to Vatican City.
http://eurodocs.lib.byu.eduEuropeana This recent (Nov.2008) resource, still in Beta, represents an ambitious pan-European project co-funded by the European Union. It provides links to over 4 million digital items in text, picture, sound or video forms held by contributing European institutions (libraries, archives, museums, galleries & research institutes). The site aims to provide access to Europe's cultural and scientific heritage through a common portal. Digitised text items comprise books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers.
www.europeana.eu/portal/Great Books Index From Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf - links to online works, in English translation, by more than 130 classic authors. Please check for any copyright restrictions (which may in a few cases apply for other than reading online). A redoubtable effort from Ken Roberts of Ontario, Canada. http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
Great Books and Classics Provides free HTML online versions of many famous authors from before 200 BC to the 20th Century. Linked with Amazon.com for commercial print offerings of the titles.
www.grtbooks.comInternet Classics Archive More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In English translation. For online reading, some downloads available.
http://classics.mit.eduInternet Public Library Over 20,000 free books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page. Merging in mid-2009 with the Librarians' Internet Index (new name to be announced soon).
www.ipl.org/reading/booksJournals Free The University of Nevada's Reno Libraries offer links to about 1500 free online academic journals, on almost 100 subjects. Organised alphabetically. A wonderful public resource. www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx
Kurt Stüber's Online Library - historic and modern biology books Over 400 books on biological subjects, many currently out of print and hard to obtain. Mostly German authors, but luminaries such as Charles Darwin are also present. In German, with some English and French (a few works are old enough to be in Latin). Online, in text chapters or as individual scanned pages. Browse the collection by author, title, category or publication date. Site presented in English and German versions.
www.zum.de/stueber/MIT OpenCourseWare An ambitious & generous plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of Technology course materials available on the Internet, for free download. Materials for 1900 courses are now accessible (the (project began at the end of September 2003). Materials are in English, but a number are also available in Spanish & Portuguese. Presented in HTML. However courses may include Adobe Acrobat PDF files, Java Applets, Shockwave, Real Player, Java, and MATLAB files (software for all of these may be downloaded from the site's Technical Requirements page). This so far unique gift is made possible by MIT with support from the William and Flora Hewlett & Andrew W. Mellon Foundations.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Course list at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htmNational Academy Press Read over 3,000 National Academy science, engineering, and health texts free online - others are for purchase. You can also buy print copies if you wish. These e-books represent the cream of U.S. research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented in a fully-searchable "Open Book" format, which also allows for page browsing & internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the format is prepared so that you can send people an individual page reference as an URL. PDFs are also available. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences provides this site.
www.nap.eduNetworked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) Links to digital theses/dissertations available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan & the USA.
www.ndltd.org/Online Books Page This University of Pennsylvania site offers access links to more than 35,000 books online. Plain presentation, but well worth the browse.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/booksOnline Medieval and Classical Library From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Yvain, or The Knight With the Lion, & including such works as: The Lay of the Cid, The Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied, Orlando Furioso, the High History of the Holy Graal, many Icelandic sagas, some Chaucer & much else besides. In HTML for reading online, or download in PKZIP v.2.04g compressed format. Thanks to Douglas B. Killings, Sun Systems & the University of California at Berkeley.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL
Oxford Text Archive From Oxford University, this archive was founded in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic texts for research and teaching. More than 2,500 resources in over 25 different languages. A premium academic resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the on-line catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some texts require the user to obtain the written permission of the original depositor.
http://ota.ahds.ac.ukPennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Reader. Established in 1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original works published by Penn. State Uni.
www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htmPerseus Project A great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.
www.perseus.tufts.eduProject Libellus The University of Washington, Seattle, provides this library of Latin texts, readable in your web browser. In HTML & TeX (a subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.
www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellusProject Madurai Tamil Digital Library under preparation by voluntary effort. So far over 240 works in Tamil script are available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil classic works predominate so far. Use a Unicode font with Tamil block and select "unicode/utf-8" charset in your browser preferences to read here.
www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/Project Runeberg Project Runeberg publishes free electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992. More than 300 titles, mostly in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish & Icelandic.
www.lysator.liu.se/runebergSoil And Health Library Free public library offering books on holistic agriculture (around 80 works), holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal development.
www.soilandhealth.orgUniversal Library (under development) "The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to anyone who can read and has access." A project of Carnegie Mellon University & the governments of China & India - much of the scanning will be done in the latter two countries. The million books project will have considerable content in many Indian and Chinese languages, as well as English. For more information about this far-reaching initiative see:
http://www.ulib.org/University of California eScholarship Editions This collection generously includes over 500 books on scholarly topics marked for general public access. Online in chapters, for your Web browser.
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts inthirteen languages (& over 164,000 publicly available images). These texts are available to web browsers, but in addition there are 2,000 + e-books available (in English) for MS Reader & Palm Reader.
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.htmlVirtual Library "The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert…" Sixteen primary categories to check out, or use the search engine.
www.vlib.org/World eBook Library . For a small annual fee, offers access to over 500,000 PDF e-books and e-documents, plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Australian Accommodation guides Information/reviews for choicer accommodation in the various regions of each Australian state. Includes holiday houses, B&Bs, small hotels, cottages, beach houses, apartments, eco retreats, island getaways, boating experiences and day spas. Sent by email, in pdf format.
www.beautifulaccommodation.com/accommodation/Coffs Harbour accommodation Or if just visiting Coffs Harbour for a well-earned break, find local information & advice on where you can stay in a free PDF linked to from the home page footer at:
http://coffsaccommodationcompany.com.au/Gold Coast Accommodation From funky coffee shops to five star restaurants, the atmosphere in the Gold Coast makes this one of the most vibrant spots in Australia. If you're keen to find out more about why the Gold Coast is Australia's playground, check out this free e-book at:
http://www.propertynow.com.au/gold-coast-accommodation/Australian Institute of Marine Science Reference library Around sixty items currently. This collection of reports, surveys, manuals, proceedings and newsletters may be read in either HTMLand/or PDF format.
www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/reflib-00.htmlAquinas Memorial Lectures 1944-50, 1979 - present day. An annual lecture by distinguished Australian Catholic clergy and laity. In PDF.
www.acu.edu.au/library/find/digital/Aquinas/Desert Wave Publishing Based in the Alice (Alice Springs, Northern Territory of Australia for our overseas readers). Provides a number of free PDF e-books in areas such as job search, training, online learning, how to e-publish yourself.
www.dwave.com.auDictionary of Sydney Take a look at the "Preview and Progress" panel for the first outline stage of this ambitious project (reader contributions welcome). There'll be stories about every suburb from Abbotsford to Zetland (not to forget spelling challenges like Woolloomooloo). Sydney's geography, history, and politics, architecture, biographies, great achievements and disasters, urban myths, wildlife (both animal and human), humour, sport, crime - every aspect of the leading harbourside city of our Great Southern Land will hopefully be presented as the dictionary grows. A joint project of the University of Sydney and the City of Sydney Council, funded by a five year Australian Research Council grant. At:
www.dictionaryofsydney.orgGay Australian freebooks This new site is an reincarnation of Blackwattle Press, a 1990's print endeavour. Organised by Gary Dunne & associates, it features a few downloads in .pdf format, including novels, verse & short story collections.
www.gay-ebooks.com.au/Health & Lifestyle
Personal Trainer We'd all like one. To learn more, download your free copy of the Personal Trainer Styles e-book, hidden away at the lower RHC above the dark blue area at:
www.meetyourpersonaltrainer.com.auHome Finance
Free First Home Buyers Guide, from a financial services company. This e-book stresses the need for financial prudence in home purchase and points to some pitfalls. Available as an .exe file download for reading offline. Warning: may conflict with some security settings. "Exercise caution in your business affairs…" the Desiderata. That goes for home loans too, as the recent financial crisis indicates.
www.rpi.com.auFinance and Wealth Creation
Car Lease The Art of Money Getting, aka 'Golden Rules For Making Money', was written by one of America's earliest millionaires, the celebrated Phineas T Barnum. This book is said to contain much of the same advice as today's personal finance books, but with a 19th century twist. Expect to see Barnum's "timeless secrets" revealed, with extra advice about teaching children the value and importance of money, education and their career choice. Download at:
http://manybooks.net/titles/barnumptetext05barnm10.htmlCredit Card The Way to Wealth is a guide to procuring wealth and securing economic virtue. An entertaining and useful e-book classic by the renowned Benjamin Franklin. From a impressive historical figure whose kite-flying experiment should, however, never be repeated, unless you are pining for electrocution. Available for direct download here, in PDF format.
www.utopianwebstrategy.com.au/uws/wp-content/uploads/way-to-wealth-benjamin-franklin.pdfCredit Card The philosophy of self-reliance, succinctly summarised in this classic by Ralph Waldo Emerson (that's the great nineteenth-century transcendentalist writer and poet, not the recent, lighter-weight musician). A free PDF direct download:
http://www.utopianwebstrategy.com.au/uws/wp-content/uploads/self-reliance-ralph-waldo-emerson.pdfBalance Transfer Credit Cards First published nearly one hundred years ago, The Game of Life and How To Play It was written by New York artist and renowned metaphysical luminary Florence Shinn. This is a delightfully written exploration of topics such as prosperity, spirituality, forgiveness and predestination. Available as a free PDF download:
www.utopianwebstrategy.com.au/uws/wp-content/uploads/the-game-of-life-florence-shinn.pdfPersonal Loan Easy to read, simple yet profound, this self-development classic, Acres of Diamonds, explores how spiritual and material desires are inter-related. In lecture format. Direct PDF download with this file:
www.utopianwebstrategy.com.au/uws/wp-content/uploads/acres-of-diamonds-russell-h-conwell.pdfEasy Forex Think and Grow Rich is a PDF format e-book reportedly the result of twenty years of interviewing, observing and analysing self-made millionaires. This free summary of some of the principles that led to these moneymaking achievements may be directly downloaded here:
www.utopianwebstrategy.com.au/uws/wp-content/uploads/think-and-grow-rich-napoleon-hill.pdfMoving House
Interstate removalists Living in the Big Country means interstate moves as large as a Muttaburrasaurus. The free Smooth Moves e-book may help. Available near the base of the page (above the black bar) from: www.relocating.com.au
Removals Sydney The name tells it all for this company, which offers "An Introductory Guide to Stress Free Removals" as a free e-book in PDF format. Included is concise, useful information on how to prepare, pack, cope with Move Day, & then unpack at the other end. Check their home page for the e-book logo at: www.sydneyfurnitureremovals.com.au/
Parenting
Baby Furniture The modern, busy young parent needs any assistance available to help with the responsibilities of caring for a young family, while juggling numerous social and work commitments. This free e-book discusses some of the important considerations new parents face in buying playpens and baby furniture, especially child safety and value for money, Download in PDF format at:
www.propertynow.com.au/assets/files/Baby_Playpens.pdfReal Estate
Real Estate Can you sell it yourself? This free e-book offers to teach you the basics of successfully selling Australian real estate without the use of an agent.
www.propertynow.com.auCoffs Harbour Real Estate If you're interested in buying property in this well-favoured northern NSW holiday destination, a free PDF e-book is available to peruse. Download at lower left-centre, opposite "number of bedrooms", at: www.crownpropertysales.com.au/
No deposit home loans Is it hopeless now, or do you still have a chance for home ownership? The answer may be yes or no, depending. Learn how to improve your odds of securing home loan financing in the increasingly strict, Australian borrowing market. Note minimum income requirements, and beware possible pitfalls. To download this free, helpful, PDF e-book guide, please navigate to the base of the page at::
http://nodeposithomeloanaustralia.com.au/
Ask Sam ebooks Free searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt reports, legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. NB: Requires registration & downloading the free askSam viewer software to use. Check file size before downloading e-books, as some can be very large. www.asksam.com/ebooks/
Asiaing Offers an eclectic mix of news about magazines, books, reports & other reading and viewing material. The e-book section offers online access to a varied range of intelligent, non-fiction books, and in some cases PDF downloads.
www.asiaing.comAuthorama A selection of Public Domain classic books or Creative Commons licensed texts. In XHTML, for your Web browser. Mostly in English, some German. From Philipp Lenssen of Stuttgart. www.authorama.com/
Baen Free Library
Participating authors place free electronic versions of their works here, usually the first novel or novels in an ongoing series. More than forty writers are represented, essentially in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres. You can either read them online, or download zipped file versions in HTML, Microsoft Reader, Palm/Mobipocket, Rocket/Ebookwise or RTF formats. Registration is requested.
www.baen.com/libraryBestWebsitesPortal.com This site features a select list of specialised websites related to literature, including free online e-books.
www.bestwebsitesportal.com/Literature.htmBookboon Free travel guides & academic books for students, in PDF format. The texts are sponsored by in-book advertisements, and are mostly in English, with a few others in Danish, Dutch, German and Swedish. Note that these are large downloads, more suitable for broadband.
http://bookboon.com/intBookrags have 1,500 classic titles available, for Palm or other handheld devices.
www.bookrags.com/ebooks.htmlDiesel Gratis Collection Over 750 free e-books representing more than 400 authors, formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket. Includes classic American and British fiction, U.S. history, children's literature, Shakespeare, African-American documents and more. Browsable by author, title or subject . From Diesel eBooks.
www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_downloadThe Digital Book Index "A Union catalog(ue) of Electronic books, texts and documents." The Digital Book Index provides links to more than 144,000 full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and private sites. You can search this site by author, title etc or browse by subjects or specific publisher lists. Please note however that not all material is free. An extremely useful resource however for tertiary students and scholars.
www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm
Dr Jack Cross's Electronic Archive A collection of Dr Jack Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the Bodleian Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of the modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad, & The History of Herodotus toThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe, Darwin and many more.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/Ebooks4free is in transition to a new, automated site version, so only a limited amount of the previous site is available at present. Prior description:Links to" free e-books and manuscripts, historical documents & literature, religion & magik, audio readings and much more.." Multilingual site - languages include English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin. The inner search engine actually translates into three languages: English Italian and (surprisingly!) Latin. In plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or as PDFs.
www.ebooks4free.netElegant Solutions Software Company have a great free e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto:" Ebooks for people who think". Don't forget to check out the children's page there, for wonderful classic tales for young & old. In Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket formats.
http://esspc-ebooks.com/FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in the FlipViewer (see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for displaying albums of images etc.
www.fliplibrary.comFranklin Free Library Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats. Some titles are also available for purchase as Franklin Reader formatted e-books.
www.franklin.com/freelibraryFree Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks Over fifty new novels ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A gift from new authors seeking your attention. How about Isildur, Brian K. Crawford's Lord of the Rings prequel? Either as HTML or asdownloadable files. Warning, browsing here may be addictive...
www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htmLiterature @ SunSITE Collection of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/manybooks.net Free e-books for PDAs +. At last count about 24,000 public domain e-books from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere. They're available here either to read online in plain text, or formatted to download for the Adobe Reader, (Palm) eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook and other softwares.
http://manybooks.net/
*Go to"WAP-enabled" mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/) for free e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone), including the iPhone. For PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/Memidex Free online dictionary/thesaurus. Browse alphabetically or use the simple FIND box. The database is derived from an expanded and improved version of Princeton University's WordNet. Both UK & US spellings here - a goodie!
www.memidex.comMemoware have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning site.
www.memoware.comPalmPilot Archives Many sites featuring free or for-purchase texts formatted for Palm readers.
www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htmPDF Books This new site offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books, classified alphabetically by author. They're all .pdf files, but you can have them either as standard PDF or mobile versions for a small screen (with five times as many pages).
www.pdfbooks.co.za/Planet eBook A collection of around forty leading classic novels, in English, as PDF files. There are no restrictions on the non-commercial use of these quality editions.
www.planetebook.com/Planet PDF Free eBooks area Recent asset for popular classic novels in the PDF format - nearly seventy here. Also offers nitroPDF software, an alternative to Adobe.
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.aspPlanetfreebook 2009 site offering a collection of 4,000+ classic, public domain titles arranged alphabetically by author surname, forename and title. Cookbooks section too. Texts are in PDF format for the Adobe Reader and other PDF readers. No registration required.
www.planetfreebook.com/PocketPC Books More than forty free e- books (mostly popular classics) in over a dozen genres, prepared for the PocketPC in Microsoft Reader (.lit format). These editions are under a creative commons licence, so they can also be copied or given away freely (unaltered and for non-commercial purposes). The home page is available in six European languages.
www.pocketpcbooks.net/PublicLiterature.Org Samples of the work of established and aspiring writers (e.g. poetry, book excerpts, short stories & plays), presented as a blog. Also around 70 classic books online as text, many also as audio.
http://publicliterature.org/Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices.
www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#libraryRead Print A great selection of free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction available to read online, from over 3,500 authors. Browse the author list for your favourites.
www.readprint.comScorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html Only in Microsoft Reader however.
Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors & readers. Free books in a range of genres, e.g. romance, adventure, westerns, kids books, short stories. As exe files or PDFs, or read some online in HTML.
www.talewins.comWebooks.com eLibrary Links to over 2,200 free e-books in html, for reading online. In sixteen broad categories, also includes journals & magazines.
www.web-books.com/e/LibraryWebLiterature This recent site, a worthy private effort from Mrs S Dey, aims to supply much free classic literature in English. Contents include nearly 7,000 titles - greatest novels, short stories, essays, poems and some non-fiction. For reading online, in chapters.
www.webliterature.netWitguides Large range of topics include health and fitness, computing, pets, parenting, sports, entertainment and more. NB: These books are prepared as downloadable zip files that you unzip to read offline. They show you relevant Amazon books you might like to read as well.
www.witguides.com/WORD IQ Over ten thousand online e-books, in plain text. Available in order of popularity or search for title.
www.wordiq.com/books/index.php