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You can print a pdf version with the button on the bottom of the page.

Ebooks are electronic or digital versions of books you can read on your computer screen or a variety of portable devices such as Kindle, Nook, or smart cellphones.

Audiobooks are books you can download and listen to on your computer, or transfer them to portable devices such as mp3 players, ipods, or a variety of smart cellphones.

  • Devices can vary widely in the formats they are able to support. Audiobook formats include mp3, wma and more.
  • The new downloadable books portal is Kansas EZ Library at http://www.ks.lib.info/digitalbooks. To access this resource you will need a Kansas Library card.
  • Free public domain audiobooks can be found at LibriVox.

LINKS

  • Online Books Page: Listing over 35,000 free books on the Web! All kinds of stuff here. Highly recommended.
  • Sacred Texts Archive: A huge, full text collection of the sacred texts of every major religion in the world.
  • Google Books: Search the full text of books to find ones that interest you and learn where to buy or borrow them. Google will show the full book when it is out of copyright.
  • Open Content Alliance (Archive.org): Represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized texts.
  • Online Library of Liberty: The Library is where electronic versions of classic books about individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion, war and peace. They are in a variety of formats.
  • Perseus Digital Library: Online collection of classic writings from antiquity from Tufts University 's Classics Department.
  • Classic Reader: Search this online library of thousands of free books by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.
  • FullBooks.com: Offers thousands of books that can be read online for free.
  • Spoken Alexandria Project: The Spoken Alexandria Project is creating a free library of spoken word recordings, consisting of classics in the public domain and modern works (with permission).
  • Bookshelf: The National Library of Medicine's growing collection of biomedical books that can be searched directly.
  • International Children's Digital Library: Over 4446 free children's books in 34 different languages.
  • National Academic Press: Over 200 books per year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health.
  • More links on delicious

Give a free ebook at try! This is a QR (Quick Response) code for "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen at Project Gutenberg. If you have a smart phone that can scan QR codes, this should work for you!

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