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<a
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free Digital Libraries - Australia
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Adelaide University Electronic Texts
Collection This
growing collection of e-texts - currently more than 700 - includes
classic works
of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and Medicine. Their own web
editions, in
HTML. <a
href="http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au">http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au</a>
ANU E-Print Repository From the
Australian National
University in Canberra, ACT (Australian Capital Territory). Holding
about 1,500
items at the beginning of 2004. Material from 1987 on is included.
User registration
(there is no charge) is required for some parts of the site.

<a
href="http://eprints.anu.edu.au">http://eprints.anu.edu.au</a>
 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. 
<a
href="http://www.ehum.edu.au">http://www.ehum.edu.au</a>
eprints unimelb The embryonic University
of Melbourne
eprint collection. The oldest item dates back to 1945. In order to
access some
areas of the archive, you'll need a user registration (no charge).
<a
href="http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au">http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au</a>

 eprints
@UQ The
University of Queensland's digital repository. 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.
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. <a
href="http://eprint.uq.edu.au">http://eprint.uq.edu.au</a>

OZLIT Electronic Texts 
Not a library as such, rather an Australian portal to an array
of free e-book
resources. Includes a limited number of Australian e-texts. Courtesy
of the
leading state portal VicNet. 
<a
href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/%7Eozlit/chapt4.html">http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html</a>

Project Gutenberg of Australia produces
books in
electronic form and makes them freely available to the public in
accordance
with Australian copyright law. 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. 
<a href="http://gutenberg.net.au">http://gutenberg.net.au</a>/

SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and
Image Service
at the University of Sydney Library) Regarded as the leading
University
digital collection in Australia. Plans are under way to further
enlarge the
size & scope of SETIS. Includes also the University of Sydney
digital theses
collection (currently over eighty theses available).
NB: While you may access many texts from the
Web, a large
number are commercially licensed and available only to users at the
University
of Sydney. 
<a
href="http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au">http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au</a>/


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free Digital Libraries - World

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***** <a
href="http://www.gutenberg.net">Project
Gutenberg</a> 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 5,000 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
(check out
our <a href="/Software.htm">Software
Page</a>).

<a
href="http://www.gutenberg.net">http://www.gutenberg.net</a>
Alex 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. 
<a
href="http://www.infomotions.com/alex">http://www.infomotions.com/alex</a>

 arXiv e-Prints Includes e-Print
"preprints" in
physics, mathematics, 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. <a
href="http://www.arxiv.org">http://www.arxiv.org</a>

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. 
<a
href="http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html">http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html</a>

Bartleby.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. 
<a
href="http://www.bartleby.com/index.html">http://www.bartleby.com/index.html</a>
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free
classic texts,
plus research works. In HTML format, readable by your web
browser. 
<a
href="http://www.bibliomania.com">http://www.bibliomania.com</a>
Bibliotheca Augustana A Latin e-library.
Includes
Bibliothecae Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica,
Hispanica,
Polonica et Russica. "Collectio textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et
Netscape
his paginis optimum visum dant. Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! "
(Optimised for
Netscape). 
<a
href="http://www.fh-augsburg.de/%7Eharsch/a_index.html">http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html</a>

CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts). 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. 
<a
href="http://www.ucc.ie/celt">http://www.ucc.ie/celt</a>
 CogPrints 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. 
<a
href="http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk">http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk</a>
Complete 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. 
<a
href="http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html">http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html</a>

 New 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. A full-text
Digital Library,
a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and links to
relevant references
are included. 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. 
<a href="http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/">http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
</a>
New
Digital 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). 
<a
href="http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp">http://www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp</a>

New
Digital Library
of Information Science and Technology: dLIST A repository of
electronic
resources in Library and Information Science (LIS) 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. 
<a
href="http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/">http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/</a>

Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit
home to amateur
Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides. The
site holds
over twenty thousand works of art & literature by over fifteen
hundred Science
Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.

<a
href="http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se">http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se</a>

The E Server Bit of a mind flip might be
an exaggeration,
but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large &
contemporary collection
of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of
Washington. 
<a href="http://eserver.org">http://eserver.org</a>
Electronic 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, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish & Swedish.

<a
href="http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html">http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html</a>
Electronic Texts On The Internet  A
useful links
page with over eighty entries 
<a
href="http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html">http://www.refdesk.com/factelec.html</a>

EuroDocs  Primary historical
documents from
Western Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and
Translations. 
<a
href="http://library.byu.edu/%7Erdh/eurodocs">http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs</a>

New 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. <a
href="http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html">http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html</a>

New 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. 
<a href="http://www.grtbooks.com/">http://www.grtbooks.com</a>

Internet 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. 
<a
href="http://classics.mit.edu">http://classics.mit.edu</a>
Internet 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. 
<a
href="http://www.ipl.org/reading/books">http://www.ipl.org/reading/books</a>
 MIT OpenCourseWare The first stage of an
ambitious
& generous plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of Technology
course materials
available on the Internet, for free download. Materials for 500
courses have
been accessible since 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.

<a
href="http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html">http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
</a>  
Course list at <a
href="http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm">http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm</a>

National Academy Press Read over 2,500
National Academy
science, engineering, and health texts free online. You can also
purchase 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. 
<a href="http://www.nap.edu">http://www.nap.edu</a>

Networked Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations
(NDLTD) Links to digital theses/dissertations available in
Australia, Canada,
many European nations, Hong Kong, Taiwan & the USA. 
<a href="http://www.theses.org">http://www.theses.org</a>/

Online Books Page This University of
Pennsylvania
site offers access to more than 16,000 books online. <a
href="http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books">http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books</a>
Online 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.

<a
href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL</a>

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height="162" align="right"> 

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. 
<a href="http://ota.ahds.ac.uk">http://ota.ahds.ac.uk</a>
Pennsylvania State University Electronic
Classics Site:
" The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files
(Adobe's Portable
Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Established in 1997,
the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus
original
works published by Penn. State Uni.

<a
href="http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm">http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm</a>
Perseus Project A great classical digital
library
site, with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images,
art, archaeology
and more. 
<a
href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu">http://www.perseus.tufts.edu</a>
 Project 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. 
<a
href="http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus">http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus</a>

Project Madurai Tamil Digital Library
under preparation
by voluntary effort. So far 160 works in Tamil script are available,
in TSCII
(Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange) format. Old Tamil
classic works
predominate so far. 
<a
href="http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai">http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai</a>/

Project Runeberg Project Runeberg
publishes free
electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since
1992. More
than 200 titles, mostly in Swedish. 
<a
href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg">http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg</a>
Soil And Health Library Free public
library offering
books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient
living, and
personal development.

<a
href="http://www.soilandhealth.org">http://www.soilandhealth.org</a>
Universal 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: 
<a
href="http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu">http://www.ul.cs.cmu.edu</a>
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
 has
more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts in thirteen 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.<img src="/Virgina%20Electronic%20Text%20Center.gif"
width="299" height="71" align="right">

<a
href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu</a>

Virtual 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…" Fourteen primary categories to check out, or use the
search engine. 
<a href="http://www.vlib.org">http://www.vlib.org</a>/
World eBook Library Opportunities to read
or download
thousands of HTML books online. Provides free, unlimited public
access to a
comprehensive collection of public domain texts & references, and
links to thousand
of on-line libraries around the world via the World Wide Web and/or
Telnet.
For a small annual fee, also offers access to 60,000 PDF e-books and
e-documents,
plus 7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic Text Library
Foundation,
based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

<a
href="http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html">http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html</a>

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Australian Institute of Marine Science
Reference library
This collection may be read in either HTML and/or PDF. 
<a
href="http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/reflib-00.html">http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/reflib-00.html</a>

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. 
<a href="http://www.dwave.com.au">http://www.dwave.com.au
</a>
 

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Free Books in
English 
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Abacci Books This unusual
site makes
Project Gutenberg free e-book classics available for download
together with
reviews of those books from Amazon.com. Includes links to buy a hard
copy if
desired. Access books by author, title, category or most
popular. 
<a
href="http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp">http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp</a>
 Abacci eBooks Over a
thousand free
e-books for the Pocket PC & the PC (LIT files formatted for
Microsoft Reader).
Includes Amazon.com reviews. A selection of both classic &
lesser-known works,
thanks to site owner Peter Shanks, who personally formatted many.
 
<a
href="http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx">http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx</a>

Alive & Free A page of links to some
recent books
from living authors available free on-line. Warning: many
controversial authors
& titles here. 
<a
href="http://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html">http://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html</a>
Baen Free Library Commercial bookstore
offers free
e-books in HTML Ms Reader, Palm, Rocket & RTF formats. Registration
requested. 
<a
href="http://www.baen.com/library">http://www.baen.com/library</a>

Black Mask With a goodly range of free
e-books, this
site also endears by offering six e-book formats and a special
Australian section. 
<a
href="http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page">http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page
</a>
Bookrags have 1,500 classic titles
available, for
Palm or other handheld devices. <a
href="http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html">http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html</a>

Ebooks4free 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. <a
href="http://www.ebooks4free.net">http://www.ebooks4free.net</a>

Elegant 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 Kate's page or the children's
page there,
for wonderful classic tales for young & old. 
<a
href="http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm">http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm</a>

FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in
the FlipViewer
(see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for
displaying
albums of images etc. 
<a href="http://www.fliplibrary.com">http://www.fliplibrary.com</a>

Franklin 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. 
<a
href="http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary">http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary</a>
Literature @ SunSITE Collection of
digital literary
texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed,
or downloaded
for further study. 
<a
href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature">http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature</a>/

 Litrix Reading Room Features works of
literature
in English, including classics, mystery, horror, sci-fi, westerns,
Sherlock
Holmes, Americana. In HTML. For reading online, or save each chapter
to read
offline in your web browser. Thanks to novelist Stan Jones of
Anchorage, Alaska.

<a
href="http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm">http://www.litrix.com/authors.htm
</a>
 Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively
academic
computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located at Linköping
University
in Sweden. Here are a few miscellaneous e-texts they offer. 
<a
href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/">http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts</a>
 Mary Jo's E-texts for the Palm Her
selections include
the Oz Books, a number of classics in literature, & various fan
fiction. All
files are zipped for easy downloading.

<a
href="http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html">http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html</a>
 Memoware have lots of free documents in
a multiplicity
of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs.
Award-winning
site. 
<a href="http://www.memoware.com">http://www.memoware.com</a>

MS (Microsoft) Reader (.lit) e- books:
Over 1,500
available. You may search the listings by "author", "title" & "most
popular"
headings.

<a
href="http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE">http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE</a>
 
 PalmPilot E-Text Ring 80+ sites
featuring free or
for-purchase texts formatted for Palm readers. 
<a
href="http://www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm">http://www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm</a>
 PDA Librarian Jill Thompson of
Greencastle-Antrim
High School in Pennsylvania's site. Jill offers small but
carefully-chosen selections
in the following categories: Outstanding Books for the College
Bound; Best Novels
Written in the English Language; Downloads Available by Author;
Great Books
For Teens; Political Documents. Also Educational Uses For PDAs, plus
other helpful
information.

<a
href="http://user.pa.net/%7Ethompson">http://user.pa.net/~thompson</a>/

 Phoenix Library Based on the Rocket
eBook, but now
offering titles in several languages & a wide range of formats
(Adobe, Microsoft,
MobiPocket & Franklin in addition to the Rocket/ REB reader
editions) <a
href="http://www.phoenix-library.org">http://www.phoenix-library.org</a>
Planet PDF Free eBooks area Recent asset
for popular
classic novels in the PDF format. 
<a
href="http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2311">http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2311</a>

Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text
titles
in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices. <a
href="http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library">http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library</a>
 Scorpius Digital Publishing have many
free e-books
available at: <a
href="http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html">http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html</a>
Only in Microsoft Reader however. 
<img src="/Scorpius%20Digital.gif" width="225" height="189"
align="absmiddle">
 StoneGarden Net Publishing Free or
inexpensive e-books
in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF
formats. Registration
(free) with this site is required.

<a
href="http://www.stonegarden.net">http://www.stonegarden.net</a>
 Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for
authors & readers. 
<a href="http://www.talewins.com">
http://www.talewins.com</a>
Webooks.com eLibrary Links to over 2,200
free e-books
in html, for reading online. In sixteen broad categories, also
includes journals
& magazines. <a
href="http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm">

http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm</a>
 NB: Many commercial e-bookstores also offer
a number
of free e-books on their sites. 
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href="#top">Back</a>
 

 Free
audio books
Audiobooks for free

Many classics of literature available, in 25 categories (including
Adventure,
Crime Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns, Thrillers,
Martial Arts,
Spy Stories, Historical & Humour). Also a few non-fiction items. All
as mp3
files. However only files playing at 8 Kb/sec files are free.
Requires registration,
& the supply of some personal information. 
<a href="http://%20www.audiobooksforfree.com">http://
www.audiobooksforfree.com</a>

 
 
World - Other
Languages,Regional
and National
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NB: If characters in non-Roman fonts do not
display, you
will need to configure your browser to read them by setting the
Font/Encoding
Preferences.
 African Digital Library

Addressing third world information imbalance by offering free access
to anyone
living in Africa, this netLibrary-supported initiative lives at: <a
href="http://AfricaEducation.org/adl"> 
http://AfricaEducation.org/adl</a> 
New Free
Apache e-books
 You can read these online in English, Apache, or in parallel
translation
(for the latter two, download the Apache/Navajo font provided
onsite). Some
tales have intriguing titles, such as 
Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, The Woman Who Had Horse
Power and The
Foolish People Acquire Coffee. <a
href="http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache/">http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache</a>

Free Arabic e-books 
UAE Yearbook 2002 in Arabic, French & English. Also UAE: A New
Perspective.
Download each chapter separately, in PDF. 
<a
href="http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp">http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp</a>
 Mega-links site for Arab literature & culture.
 
<a
href="http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature">http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature</a>

New Free
Belarusian
e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian
literature in Belarusian,
plus some English, German & other translations. 
<a href="http://knihi.com">http://knihi.com</a> 
New Free
Brasilian
e-books More than sixty free titles
from 26 authors,
including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso
Henrique
da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission.
Available
as downloads for offline reading - formats include Word, PDF, RTF
and some Palm
PDB. <a
href="http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional">http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional</a>

New
Some free
Brasilian Law e- books in Portuguese, plus the Constitution of
Brasil in English.
<a
href="http://www.lifestylesbrazil.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index">http://www.lifestylesbrazil.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index</a>

Free Chinese e-books Supplied by the New
Threads
Chinese Cultural Society, this electronic library is 
claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese
classic texts.

<a href="http://www.xys.org">http://www.xys.org</a>
 <a
href="http://www.dtnets.com/index.htm">http://www.dtnets.com/index.htm</a>
  Free Colombian e-books More than a
dozen free
Colombian e-books are available in Spanish 
from this site. Historical & literary topics predominate. Formatted
for the
Adobe Reader. 
<a href="http://www.epigrafe.com">http://www.epigrafe.com
</a>

Free Croatian e-books 
New Classics
of Croatian Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of
the 20th
century, 
variously as online text, RTF or PDF files. 
<a
href="http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm">http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm</a>
New
Some free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read
online.

<a
href="http://www.elektronickeknjige.com/">http://www.elektronickeknjige.com</a>
 Free Esperanto e-books eLibrejo.
Over 270 books
(both original and translated) in Esperanto. For downloading in .pdf
format.
(Use the Adobe Reader software). Subjects include fiction, poetry,
theatre,
religion, classic & historic works, children's literature. 
<a
href="http://www.esperanto.nu/eLibrejo">http://www.esperanto.nu/eLibrejo
</a>
New
 Free
Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of
topics.

<a
href="http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com">http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com</a>
 
Free French e-books 
Bibliothèque nationale de France
(National Library
of France). "Sur les 30 millions de pages du fonds numérisé
des imprimés
de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dont un peu plus du tiers
relève du
XIXe siècle, Gallica permet dès à présent d'accéder à quelques 2500
ouvrages
numérisés en mode image, complétés par UN extrait de la base "
Frantext " du
CNRS qui permet la consultation de plus de 250 volumes saisis en
mode texte."
<a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr">http://gallica.bnf.fr</a>
Bibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au
texte intégral
d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis
1993. 
<a href="http://abu.cnam.fr">http://abu.cnam.fr</a>

Bibliopolis. La bibliothèque des lettres : plus
de 2000
œuvres (sciences humaines et littérature) en texte intégral sont
consultables.
Grâce au logiciel Trevi, vous pourrez effectuer toutes les
recherches possibles
sur les auteurs, les ,,, 
<a href="http://www.bibliopolis.fr">http://www.bibliopolis.fr</a>

Le Château. Offers more than 100 electronic
texts of classical
French literature. Offrant aussi Le Salon, rassemblant Des
sites traitants
de textes et auteurs présents dans le Château. 
<a
href="http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com">http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com</a>
New
Social sciences:
many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In
Word, PDF
and RTF formats. As of July 2004 the collection offers 954 original
works from
361 different authors . Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie
Tremblay, the
University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of
France.

<a
href="http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales">http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales</a>

 
Free German e-books 
 This free page of a German e-book store
offers a
few titles, mostly as PDF files. 
<a
href="http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html">http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html</a>
Ten free German titles 
<a
href="http://www.dibi.de/cgi-bin/ebook.storefront">http://www.dibi.de/cgi-bin/ebook.storefront</a>

New Free
Hebrew e-books
 Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make the public domain classics
of Hebrew
literature freely accessible to Hebrew readers, as searchable HTML
works. Note
the browser requirements indicated in 
the FAQ. <a href="http://benyehuda.org/"> 
http://benyehuda.org</a> 
Free Hungarian e-books Large list of free
Magyar
elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at <a
href="http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt">http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt</a>

Free Italian e-books 
Antologia della Letteratura Italiana.
Novels, poetry,
plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary. In HTML, for
reading online.
Includes some Dante, Boccaccio, St Francis of Assisi, Alessandro
Manzoni and
Enrico Maria Ferrari. An initiative of Riccardo Scateni. 
<a
href="http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html">http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html</a>
Free e-books in Italian. Yes, cost is null,
zero, niente.
Genres include novels, poetry, classics, plays, biographies, horror
& fantasy,
&New Economy. In MS Reader format only. 
<a href="http://www.ebookgratis.it">http://www.ebookgratis.it</a>/

The Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book
site. 
<a
href="http://www.liberliber.it/home/index.asp">http://www.liberliber.it/home/index.asp</a>
New
Ozoz. 
Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available as HTML
(versione ipertestuale);
RTF (ideale 
per la stampa dei libri); TXT (puro testo): & for download
zipped. 
<a
href="http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm">http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm</a>

Free Japanese e-books
 New Aozora
Bunko. More than 2000 works of copyright-free Japanese literature.
Various formats
available, incl. HTML, download zips and Japanese e-book format. 
<a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp">http://www.aozora.gr.jp</a>

Free Korean e-books 
Digital Han'gukhak. From the Academy
of Korean
Studies.

<a
href="http://www.koreandb.net">http://www.koreandb.net</a>
 Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature
site. 
<a
href="http://bh.knu.ac.kr/%7Emkkim">http://bh.knu.ac.kr/%7Emkkim</a>

Korean Poetry online 
<a
href="http://www.poet.co.kr/index.html">http://www.poet.co.kr/index.html</a>

Free multilingual Literary e-books "
E-books of criticism,
essays, poetry, dramas, translations in many languages which can be
downloaded,
printed, read for free." In English, French, Portuguese, Romanian,
Serbo-Croatian
& Spanish. Italian, Esperanto & Arabic also feature. <a
href="http://www.gallup.unm.edu/%7Esmarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm">http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm</a>

Free Polish e-books 
 Polish literature online, thanks to
the University
of Gdansk. 
<a
href="http://monika.univ.gda.pl/%7Eliterat/index.htm">http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm</a>

 New
Polska Biblioteka
Internetowa. Includes classic Polish literature among its
collections, and Polish
translations of famous works from other nations. In HTML. 
<a
href="http://www.pbi.edu.pl/">http://www.pbi.edu.pl</a>

Free Portuguese e-books 
New Virtual
Books. PDF downloads of titles from a goodly range of authors. <a
href="http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm">http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm</a>

New
Projecto
Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs. 
<a
href="http://www.ipn.pt/literatura/">http://www.ipn.pt/literatura</a>

Free Russian e-books 
Biblioteka Agava, more online
goodies. 
<a
href="http://www.biblioteka.agava.ru/index.htm">http://www.biblioteka.agava.ru/index.htm</a>

New
Electronic
Publications Library. Works from Chekov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and
other famous 
Russian authors. For Reading online in HTML. All in Russian.

<a
href="http://public-library.narod.ru">http://public-library.narod.ru</a>

 Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free
e-books. 
<a href="http://www.lib.ru">http://www.lib.ru</a>
 Books in Russian formatted for Palm OS devices
in .prc
format. 
<a href="http://www.palmpc.ru">http://www.palmpc.ru</a>/

Russian electronic environmental library. 
<a
href="http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm">http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm</a>

Russian SciFi & Fantasy books available online
here, in
both Russian & English. Pioneering site, since 1996. <a
href="http://www.rusf.ru">http://www.rusf.ru</a>
 
New Free
Sanskrit
e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit
Proverbs,
are available as downloadable

MS Word documents from this site. The Purana file is zipped. 
<a
href="http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm">http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm</a>
 
Free Serbian e-books Projekat Rastko.
Biblioteka
srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro.
In addition,
some Serbian literature is offered in other languages including
English, German,
French, Spanish, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, & Ukrainian. 
<a href="http://www.rastko.org.yu">http://www.rastko.org.yu</a>

New Free
Slovenian
e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian
literature, with
a few 
authorised modern items. Available to read online. 
<a
href="http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html">http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html
</a>
 
Free Spanish e-books 
Free literary unpublished texts, especially in Spanish and
Catalan.

<a href="http://www.badosa.com">http://www.badosa.com</a>

e-autores. Includes Latin American national
sites. Audio
books also available. 
<a
href="http://www.e-autores.com/Free.htm">http://www.e-autores.com/Free.htm</a>
 A small but careful selection of literature and
useful
non-fiction in Spanish, for the PocketPC device, Smartphone or
Windows PC (Microsoft
Reader format). 
<a
href="http://www.mipcdebolsillo.com/biblioteca">http://www.mipcdebolsillo.com/biblioteca</a>

New Free
Swedish
e-books 
eBoklagret Omnibus. More than 230
works from 41
Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. <a
href="http://www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret">http://www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret</a>
Free Turkish e-books 
New
Türk Öyküleri Sandigi. From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish
tales and
other literature, 
in both Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe
Reader
5.0 or above.

NB: for reading, study, or citation only. 
<a
href="http://aton.swco.ttu.edu/">http://aton.swco.ttu.edu</a>
 Sufism & Science. MS Reader format. 
<a
href="http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar">http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar</a>
 
 (English versions also available at <a
href="http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks">http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks</a>/,
with German to come).

New Free
Ukrainian
e-books  The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature.
Classic texts
of Ukrainian prose. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.Thanks to
Prof. Maxim
Tarnawsky at the University of Toronto, Canada, various Ukrainian
publishers
and other supporters. 
<a
href="http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/">http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/</a>

Free USA e-books. USA Today's Open
Book program.
Presented as a separate section on the newspaper's website, Open
Book runs original
stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all
visitors. <a
href="http://www.openbook.usatoday.com">http://www.openbook.usatoday.com</a>

Free Vietnamese e-books Vietnamese
Literature Electronic
Library. 
<a href="http://www.vhvn.com">http://www.vhvn.com</a> 
 
New Free
Welsh e-books
Llyfrgell Owen - a Library of Welsh
Language Texts.
Works are presented In plain 
text format. This fledging site lacks funding and welcomes
volunteers to enlarge
it. Apêl yw hon felly am gydweithwyr, cyfranogwyr a chyfranwyr.

<a
href="http://llyfrgell.cymraeg.org/">http://llyfrgell.cymraeg.org</a>

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New
Alchemy e-books
The text is plain, but an amazing array of illustrations on this
unusual site
more than compensate. Most works are in English, but six other
languages are
also represented. A huge site, from alchemy authority Adam
McLean.

<a
href="http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html">http://www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html</a>

British Women Romantic Poets 
Project E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written
(not necessarily
published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in
English literary
history as the Romantic period. A digital initiative of the
University of California,
Davis, from the Shields Library. Available in HTML & SGML. 
<a
href="http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP">http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP</a>
Children's/Young Adult Books 
 A variety of famous classic titles.

<a
href="http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/childrens.htm">http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/childrens.htm</a>

Comics 
 Free daily comic strips with back archives. Related goodies for
sale. They
have Ginger Meggs! 
<a href="http://www.comics.com">http://www.comics.com</a>
Lots of e-freebies from DC. 
<a
href="http://www.dccomics.com">http://www.dccomics.com</a>

Computing 
Betabooks. Allows computing professionals to view partial and
sometimes
complete text versions of selected emerging technology titles
online. Bet@Books
viewing is free, & invites comments and feedback. 
<a
href="http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooks">http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooks</a>
  Dan Preston's Infoheaven site offers his
e-book "How
To Buy The Perfect Computer" free. For those who join his mailing
list or purchase
books, other free items are available. <a
href="http://infoheaven.bravepages.com/DansEBOOK/PerfCPUindex.htm">http://infoheaven.bravepages.com/DansEBOOK/PerfCPUindex.htm</a>

New
Free Windows
Security e-books. Surprisingly, these individual chapters or entire
books are
dowloadable in .pdf format. You need to register to access them.

<a
href="http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/ebooks">http://www.windowsitlibrary.com/ebooks</a>

New
Realtime
Publishers offer some valuable free Windows titles in Microsoft .lit
or Adobe
PDF formats. 
("Real-time publishing" is the concept of posting a book as
chapters/volumes
are written, making up-to-the 
minute information available. You need to register to read the books
- registered
users will be notified via email when new chapters/volumes are added
or existing
content modified. Series include The Definitive Guides (for
technical
professionals), The Shortcut Guides (for the busy
administrator and developer),
and The Savvy Consumer Guides for consumers.

<a
href="http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/rtp.asp">http://cc.realtimepublishers.com/rtp.asp</a>
 
Cooking 
The USENET Cookbook Main dishes, appetizers & snacks,
bread/pasta, beverages,
cookies or cakes, sauces, salads, soups, deserts, vegetable dishes
etc. Vegetarian
alternatives offered. Permission to copy without fee all or part of
this material
is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for
direct commercial
advantage. Copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or
the original
contributor. {Copyright (c) 1987 USENET Community Trust}. 
<a
href="http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/main.html">http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/main.html</a>

 e-Cookbooks.net Some 18 free samples are
available
from this commercial site, as pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.

<a href="http://www.e-cookbooks.net">http://www.e-cookbooks.net
</a>
New
Current Affairs 
From prolific writer Shmuel (Sam) Vaknin: lively, controversial
musings on issues
in economics, politics, the Balkans, international affairs, history,
psychology
and more. Download as MS Word, RTF or PDF files. 
<a
href="http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html">http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html
</a>
E-book publishing This fledgling
e-publisher/bookstore
also offers some free inspirational/New Age titles, free covers for
e-authors
& a free e-book on drawing. In PDF at: <a
href="http://www.ebookpublishing.us/ebookcategories/free.htm">http://www.ebookpublishing.us/ebookcategories/free.htm</a>

Electronics ee.com A free technical
library and
professional community for electrical and electronics engineers.
Contains over
5,600 documents in a variety of forms. Qualified contributions
welcome. Resource
areas include aerospace, analogue and digital design, biomedical
technology,
computer engineering, consumer electronics, digital signal
processing, dsp,
electric power, microprocessors, nanotechnology, magnetic & electro
physics,
jobs, meeting, business, research and development, semiconductors,
telecommunication,
vlsi. In PDF & PostScript. Members need to register, but visitors
are also welcomed.
 
<a
href="http://www.electronics-ee.com">http://www.electronics-ee.com
</a>
English literature and
Classics
 Elibron.Over two hundred titles, in PDF
format,
also versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC. Free, with
paperback
versions also available for purchase. 
<a
href="http://www.elibron.com/english/lists/free_ebook.phtml">http://www.elibron.com/english/lists/free_ebook.phtml</a>

Literature Post. A collection of classic books,
plays,
stories and poems for online reading. Nearly seventy 
authors are represented. In plain text. 
<a
href="http://www.literaturepost.com">http://www.literaturepost.com</a>

New
Virtual Imprint. A select catalogue of free original and classic
fiction. Available
for download in MS Reader, Adobe Reader ( PDF), or to read online in
your Web
browser (in their Virtual Imprint WebBook format - a simple but
bookmarkable
double page layout. IE 5+ recommended). Their home page also offers
an array
of purchasable services for bibliophiles. 
<a
href="http://www.virtualimprint.com/catalog.shtml">http://www.virtualimprint.com/catalog.shtm</a>l

New
A number of famous Irish literary works available free to download
as text or
RTF files, also some HTML short stories to read online. Yes, all of
the following
famous "English" authors were actually Irish - George 
Bernard Shaw, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula), Jonathan Swift,
J.M.Synge, Oscar
Wilde. 
<a
href="http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm">http://www.ireland-information.com/irishliterature.htm</a>

New
Brennan Emerson's works. Fiction and philosophy as novel, short
story or poetry,
plus the author's autobiography. Three books available for online
reading; downloads
are as zipped plain text files.

<a
href="http://www.geocities.com/kingmarcine">http://www.geocities.com/kingmarcine</a>

General Reference 
 AllRefer.com
Provides a free
encyclopedia (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, from the Columbia
University
Press) & gazetteer, medical encyclopedia & other valuable reference
resources.
Thousands of articles available here in HTML, with useful links to
related topics. 
<a href="http://www.allrefer.com">http://www.allrefer.com</a>

Mathematics 
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains free online journals,
article
collections, and monographs in the field of mathematics. View
on-line or download
as .pdfs for offline use. 
<a
href="http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.html">http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.htm</a>
Collection of more than thirty e-books. Mostly
in English,
with some in French, Romanian, Russian. As .pdfs for Adobe Acrobat
Reader. 
<a
href="http://www.gallup.unm.edu/%7Esmarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm#E-Books%20of%20Mathematics">http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm#E-Books%20of%20Mathematics</a>

Medicine

Site dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books
over the
Internet. 550+ books to read online in English, French, German &
Spanish, plus
a few titles in Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian,
Russian &
Turkish.<a href="http://freebooks4doctors.com">
http://freebooks4doctors.com</a>
Handhelds for Doctors. Read the text free. A
paperback version
is also available for purchase. 
<a
href="http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/book/text/index.htm">http://www.handheldsfordoctors.com/book/text/index.htm</a>
 
 National Center for Biotechnology Information
(NCBI) Bookshelf.
 A collection of searchable biomedical books for the Web.
Illustrated,
in HTML. Medical issues covered include asthma, cancer, high blood
pressure,
obesity, & retroviruses. There are also more general works on topics
including
the Cell, Developmental Biology, Glycobiology, Genes and Disease,
Immunobiology
and Neurochemistry. <a
href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=Books</a>

New
Medical Dictionary
Online "A free online medical dictionary search engine for
definitions of medical
terminology, pharmaceutical drugs, healthcare equipment, health
conditions,
medical devices, specialty terms and medical abbreviations." Note
that definitions
are brief, and should only be considered as a launching pad 
for further research. 
<a
href="http://www.online-medical-dictionary.org/">http://www.online-medical-dictionary.org</a>
Military/History 
 Hermilitary.com offer a selection of historical, military &
literary titles
as .pdf downloads to read offline. These range from Sun Tzu's "The
Art of War"
to Tolstoy's "War & Peace", & Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of
Courage". Also
offer the famous" CIA World Factbook", adult classic fiction &
classic children's
books too. The site also supplies Flipbrowser as a download, so you
can view
their featured books online in an enhanced format.

<a
href="http://www.hermilitary.com/bookclub/ebook.htm">http://www.hermilitary.com/bookclub/ebook.htm</a>
 Philosophy 
New The Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Alphabetical and searchable. A voluntary
academic
effort. <a
href="http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/">http://www.utm.edu/research/iep</a>/

Poetry Many traditional poems, plus
lyrics of traditional
songs. To read online, or download as zipped files to your PC.

<a
href="http://www.indbazaar.com/soulkurry/books.asp?cat=14">http://www.indbazaar.com/soulkurry/books.asp?cat=14</a>

Science The Public Library of Science is
provided
by "a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed
to making
the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available
public resource".
PLoS will publish its own journals. So far there is PLoS
Biology (a monthly,
launched October 2003, both online and in print). PLoS
Medicine is to
follow during 2004. Formats used are HTML & PDF. 
<a href="http://www.plos.org">http://www.plos.org </a>

Science Fiction/Fantasy & Horror 
Online since August 1997, UK-based Infinity Plus
publishes some original
fiction, but mostly republishes those short stories & other shorter
works you're
always trying to find again. With extra input from many writers that
you may
not see anywhere else. As such, this wonderful archive is a boon to
devotees.
Online in HTML, or you can save them ('Save as...') to read
off-line. However
please remember they remain copyright for all purposes other than
simple reading. 
<a
href="http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/index.htm">http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/index.htm</a>
 
SF/Fantasy e-books & assistance for the
physically impaired.
ReadAssist is an organization of Science Fiction and Fantasy
fans with
an easy-to-use site streamlined to assist those with physical
disabilities.
They provide links to sources of both free and purchasable written
and audio
e-books, in those genres. Further links are to software & hardware
of use to
those with impaired mobility or vision.

<a href="http://www.readassist.org">http://www.readassist.org
</a>
New
Gormglaith, by Heidi Wyss. 76,000 words of radical feminist
separatist literature
set in what is claimed to be a scientifically plausible future.
Aesthetically
presented for online reading. 
<a
href="http://www.literateweb.com/wyss.htm">http://www.literateweb.com/wyss.htm</a>
 
Technical Reports Online 
"The Virtual Technical Reports Center". Links to technical
reports, preprints,
reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds,
as either
full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts

<a
href="%3Cfont%20face=%22Arial%22%3Ehttp://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html">http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html</a>

Travel Universal Currency Converter, in
free e-book
format. With useful travel/tourist info. about
Australia/Victoria/Melbourne. 
<a
href="http://www.vicds.com.au/currency_comparer.htm">http://www.vicds.com.au/currency_comparer.htm</a>
 

 IIT - Information Interactive Technology This
Netherlands-based
site offers some classic e -books include Wodehouse humour, Sherlock
Holmes
and a serious essay About Violence and Democracy. There are
also mini
travel guides for all European countries. In PDF, use the Adobe
Reader. Patience
may be required; this site is slow to download for modem users.

<a href="http://www.ebookseguides.com">http://www.ebookseguides.com
</a>
 U.S. Declaration of Independence, U.S.
Constitution,
all Amendments, the Monroe Doctrine, the Emancipation Proclamation &
the Gettysburg
Address. Fully indexed. Available free as a downloadable zip
file (requires
a zip utility to decompress). Download the FREEDOM.ZIP (40kb), from
R.E. Harvey,
at: <a
href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey">http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/r_harvey</a>

U.S. Rightwing Christian Fundamentalism
The Institute
for Christian Economics is a Texas-based, U.S. Christian
fundamentalist
site. Many "bible-based" religious & social titles are offered, plus
a substantial
foray into conservative and pro-free market economics & politics.
Books are
available in HTML or the DjVu compressed file format. The site
authors recommend
the latter, which they claim is superior to & less memory-hungry
than PDF for
representing original works. A free DjVu reader may be downloaded
from the site.

<a href="http://www.freebooks.com/">http://www.freebooks.com/</a>

 
Website
Development Rick Rouse provides several free e-books,
downloadable as zip
files, for webmasters. They include How To Get Thousands Of Links
To Your
Website and How To Triple Your Website Traffic Every 90
Days. Also
some useful software for webmasters.

<a
href="http://www.rlrouse.com/freebies.html">http://www.rlrouse.com/freebies.html</a>

 William Blake Archive Literary and
visual works
by William Blake and his circle. Includes fully searchable and
scalable electronic
editions of all of Blake's 19 illuminated works. In HTML & SGML.
With Biography,
Glossary, and Chronology. Sponsored by the U.S. Library of Congress,
with some
high-powered support. <a
href="http://www.blakearchive.org.uk/main.html">http://www.blakearchive.org.uk/main.html</a>
 
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Ancient
Egypt
 Ancient Egyptian Pantheon Names 
 Descriptions & other information on the gods of old Egypt.

<a
href="http://www.vibrani.com/gods.htm">http://www.vibrani.com/gods.htm</a>
 

Egyptian Book of the Dead - The Papyrus
of Ani; Egyptian
Book of the Dead. <a
href="http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Books/Papyrus_Ani.html">http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Books/Papyrus_Ani.html</a>

Ra and the Serpent  Egyptian myth of
creation
<a
href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/%7Ehumm/Resources/StudTxts/raSerpnt.html">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/StudTxts/raSerpnt.html
</a>

Asian Classic
Texts 
The Asian Classics Input Project works to preserve disappearing
books containing
the great ideas of the Eastern half of humanity, and to make these
books and
ideas accessible to the world at large. Downloadable mainly as
zipped text &
rtf files. Includes ACIP Release V: World.Wide.Wisdom. Over
200 previously
unreleased titles from the classics of traditional Asian philosophy
in the Tibetan
language. 
<a
href="http://www.asianclassics.org">http://www.asianclassics.org</a>
 
Baha'i
 Bahá'í Sacred Writings and other books,
articles
etc. To read online, or downloadable as text, rtf or Word documents.

<a
href="http://www.bahai-library.org">http://www.bahai-library.org</a>

Baha'i Library Online (in English, French
& Spanish) 
<a href="http://bahai-library.com">http://bahai-library.com</a>
 
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas 
<a
href="http://www.ibiblio.org/Bahai/Texts/English/AQD/AQD-4.html">http://www.ibiblio.org/Bahai/Texts/English/AQD/AQD-4.html</a>

Below, a downloadable (.ZIP) HTML version
of this
"Most Holy Book" of the Bahá'í Faith. <a
href="http://www.powerup.com.au/%7Etakkenb/Kitab-i-Aqdas/Kitab-i-Aqdas.htm">http://www.powerup.com.au/~takkenb/Kitab-i-Aqdas/Kitab-i-Aqdas.htm</a>

The Kitáb-i-Iqán 
<a
href="http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KI/">http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KI</a>

the Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah in HTML,
with a FLASH
version also. Both at: <a
href="http://www.upliftingwords.org/writings/hiddenwords/">http://www.upliftingwords.org/writings/hiddenwords</a>

Buddhism
 BuddhaNet These Buddhist texts may be
read online
with the Adobe Reader or variants thereof. Texts are presently
available in
English (UK & US variants), French, German, Spanish & Japanese. The
texts may
also be downloaded as zipped .pdf files to read offline. 
<a
href="http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm">http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm</a> 

Buddhist Reading Room Sutras & other
content for
online reading. In American English. Some texts also available for
download
as ZIP format archives (IBM / Windows users) or StuffIt format
(Macintosh users).

<a
href="http://www.buddhistreading.com">http://www.buddhistreading.com</a>
 Online Dharma Libraries 
"Authors and/or publishers of the works have granted us permission
to make these
electronic editions freely available to the public. In the Buddhist
tradition,
this is the practice of dana, or "freely-offered
generosity."…Extensive collection
of Buddhist texts for downloading. 
<a
href="http://www.dharmanet.org/files.html">http://www.dharmanet.org/files.html</a>

Sacred Texts: Buddhism 
In English, for reading online.Includes modern (early 20th
century) compilations
of the Buddhist Canon, plus texts of Northern & Southern Buddhist
schools,Tibetian
Buddhism and much else.

<a
href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud">http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud
</a>
More HTML Buddhist e-books for online
reading. 
<a
href="http://www.tipitaka.net/ebooks">http://www.tipitaka.net/ebooks</a>
  
 Cao
Dai 
Centre for Studies in Caodaism (Sydney)

Online full text Cao Dai scriptures & books, articles, images,&
audio-visuals,
in Vietnamese, French & English. Includes information on the
history, organization,
philosophy and practice of Caodaism. An Australian archive in HTML,
thanks to
Cong-Tam Dao of the University of Sydney. 
<a
href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10190">http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10190</a>

  
 Christianity
 The Holy Bible
(King James
version) in HTML

<a
href="http://www.bartleby.com/br/108.html">http://www.bartleby.com/br/108.html</a>
The NET Bible (New English Translation)
a
completely new translation of the Bible. Includes many thousands of
hyperlinked
(clickable) translator's notes (which may include theological
opinion). Online
in HTML. Courtesy of the Biblical Studies Press. 
<a href="http://netbible.bible.org/">http://netbible.bible.org</a>/

The Bible, New International Version
Online, in
individual chapters. 
<a
href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=RSV&passage=all">http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=RSV&passage=all</a>

The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, in
HTML 
<a
href="http://www.catholicfirst.com/bibledrv.cfm">http://www.catholicfirst.com/bibledrv.cfm</a>
 

 New American Bible, from United States
Conference
of Catholic Bishops, in HTML 
<a
href="http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible">http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible</a>

Old & New Testaments of the Bible
formatted for Palm
Reader. (New Testament as one download. Old Testament is in four
parts). King
James version. 
<a
href="http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/free/ebooks">http://www.palmdigitalmedia.com/free/ebooks</a>

Latin Vulgate Bible, for Palm 
 <a
href="http://barry.dobyns.com/palm/Vulgate">http://barry.dobyns.com/palm/Vulgate</a>

Individual or collected books from the King
James Bible,
in AportisDoc (DOC) format. 
<a
href="http://barry.dobyns.com/palm/bible/">http://barry.dobyns.com/palm/bible/</a>

Old and New Testament books in groups, in
PilotDoc
format, zipped. <a
href="http://www.antioch.com.sg/edgar/bibledoc.html">http://www.antioch.com.sg/edgar/bibledoc.html</a>

New Testament TNIV version, as PDF for
Adobe Reader 
<a
href="http://www.tniv.info/bible/index.php">http://www.tniv.info/bible/index.php</a>

The Bible, text search of New International
Version,
in 19 languages. 
<a
href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NIV">http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NIV</a>
 The Bible, text search of Revised Standard
Version 
<a
href="http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv">http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv</a>
The Bible, text search of New American
Standard Version 
 <a
href="http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NASB">http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NASB</a>

Christian Classics Electronic Library for
the Palm
Pilot 
<a
href="http://members.aol.com/PilotCCEL">http://members.aol.com/PilotCCEL</a>
 Christian Classics Ethereal Library 
 Huge collection of significant Christian works. Especially in
English,
but with some Russian & Chinese e-texts, plus a few in Latin, Greek,
French,
German, Czech, Italian & Spanish. Many In ThML (Theological Markup
Language,
an XML variant), or in HTML. Also as online facsimile, plain text,
Open eBook,
Palm DocBook, or Microsoft Reader formats. Some MP3 audio files
also. From Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, Missouri. 
<a href="http://www.ccel.org">http://www.ccel.org</a>

Christian Latin - Online versions of
Christian Latin
texts from Abelard to Thomas à Kempis. <a
href="http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/christian.html">http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/christian.html</a>

The Catholic Encyclopedia
(1914 edition), for online reading or consultation. Hyperlinked. 
<a
href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen</a>

  
Project Wittenberg Works by and about
Martin Luther
and other Lutherans. <a
href="http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html">http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html</a>

Project Wittenberg's Lutheran Electronic
Archive:
gives priority to documents written by Luther or about Luther.
Documents by
other Lutherans and Lutheran churches or organizations are produced
to a lesser
extent. The majority of the works are in HTML or text format. 
<a href="http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/">http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext</a>
 

The Walther Library also provides links to a
broader range
of Protestant and Lutheran works at: <a
href="http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/probono.php">http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/probono.php</a>

 
Coptic Texts The St. Pachomius Library.
In HTML.
<a
href="http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/African/">http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/St.Pachomius/African</a>

Note: For an explanation of the current relationships among the
Coptic, Eastern
Orthodox and Ethiopian churches see: <a
href="http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/coptic.htm">http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/coptic.htm</a>
Early Christian Writings: New Testament,
Apocrypha,
Gnostics, Church Fathers. In HTML. <a
href="http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/">http://www.earlychristianwritings.com</a>

The Ecole Initiative - a "Hypertext
Encyclopedia
of Early Church History," up to the Reformation. <a
href="http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/">http://www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb</a>
 
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints)
The Book of Mormon,

online by chapters in HTML. Downloadable version (.pdb file) for
Palm & Windows
CE devices also available. Other Mormon e-texts here too. 
<a
href="http://scriptures.lds.org/bm/contents">http://scriptures.lds.org/bm/contents</a>

 
Gnostic 
The Gospel of Thomas The
"Scholars' Translation"
of the Gospel of Thomas, by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer. 
<a
href="http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm">http://www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm</a>

Gospel of Thomas commentary 
<a
href="http://www.gospelthomas.com/">http://www.gospelthomas.com</a>
The Gnostic Society Library  A
comprehensive collection of Gnostic texts online. 
<a
href="http://www.gnosis.org/library.html">http://www.gnosis.org/library.html</a>

 
 Ecclesiastical calendar conversion.
Warning - this
gets complicated. <a
href="http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/woolley/calconv.html">http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/woolley/calconv.html</a>

Desiderata -
Meaning, that which is to be desired. Much concentrated & timeless
wisdom here.
<a
href="http://artandpoetry.com/art/sherrie/desiderata.html">http://artandpoetry.com/art/sherrie/desiderata.html</a>
 
 Epic of
Gilgamesh
Summary of the ancient text, this version written by the
oldest-known named
human author. Written c. 2000 B.C. 
<a
href="http://www.wsu.edu/%7Edee/MESO/GILG.HTM">http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM</a>

Hinduism
The Vedas -
claimed to
be mankind's oldest scriptures, and considered by Hindus to be a
direct revelation
of God. Read online in HTML. In 7 parts and 21 chapters. English
translation
by Professor Raimon Panikkar. <a
href="http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/VEIndex.html">http://www.himalayanacademy.com/books/vedic_experience/VEIndex.html</a>
 
 Bhagavad-Gita. In audio versions in16
languages,
or as HTML in English only. 
<a href="http://www.bhagavad-gita.org">http://www.bhagavad-gita.org
</a>

Dharmic Scriptures. This
page at present contains the four Vedas as a zipped Word file for
downloading,
plus Vedas Exerpts, Vedic Samhitas & Brahmanas
Introduction, and
the Upanishads, as Word files. Expansion into other formats is
planned. 
<a
href="http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/scriptures.htm">http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/scriptures.htm</a>

Upanishads - The Texts Available
individually online,
or downloadable gathered as one PDF file. <a
href="http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/upanishads.htm">http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/upanishads.htm</a>

Upanishads - Transliteration Key 
 <a
href="http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/upanishad.html">http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/upanishad.html</a>
Dvaita Text Resources  Some
classic Hindu texts as PDF files in Sanskrit, some with Roman script
versions. 
<a
href="http://www.dvaita.net/">http://www.dvaita.net</a>
 Hindu Insights  
Many mini-texts on Hinduism for reading on this award-winning
site.

<a href="http://www.hinduism.co.za">http://www.hinduism.co.za</a>

Ars Floreat 
A number of spiritual and sacred texts,
including the
Bible, the Koran, Plato and some Hindu scriptures, presented in
Dutch, from
an overall philosophical basis of the Advaita Vedanta tradition of
India. In
PDF. 
<a href="http://www.arsfloreat.nl/">http://www.arsfloreat.nl</a>

 
Islam

The Koran (Qur'an) 
The Qur'an, in
four side-by-side
English translations. Available by chapters for online reading. <a
href="http://www.quran.org/quran/quranframe.htm">http://www.quran.org/quran/quranframe.htm</a>

 The Koran An electronically scanned
version of M.
H. Shakir's English translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by
Tahrike
Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in searchable SGML form. 
<a
href="http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html">http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html</a>

The Koran in the original Arabic,
downloadable as
a full e-reader software program with support for various fonts and
font sizes,
2D animations, MP3 audio sounds, search engine, text color,
underline color,
tags etc, as prepared by Samir Alicehajic of Zagreb, Croatia.
English and German
translations are included in the "Koran 6.51" version software.
Bosnian, Dutch,
French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese & Turkish translations which
may be imported
into the above software are also available. An online HTML English
Koran translation,
plus Hadith (sayings of the Prophet) also feature on this site. 
<a href="http://www.yildun.com">http://www.yildun.com</a>
Hadith (Sayings and Traditions) A variety
of texts
online in HTML, some audio also. 
<a
href="http://www.al-islam.org/links.asp?CatId=70">http://www.al-islam.org/links.asp?CatId=70
</a>
International Islamic Digital
Library "An
ambitious project to create a centralized repository of knowledge on
Islam and
the Muslim communities which is authoritative, comprehensible &
reliable". This
Malaysian initiative includes books, manuscripts, multimedia,
theses, articles
& conference papers Users need to register. <a
href="http://www.iidl.net">http://www.iidl.net</a>

NZ Muslim Net Many Muslim e-books in
English. Variously
as Adobe PDF, Flash, MP3 Audio, HTML & self-contained software
programs. 
<a
href="http://www.nzmuslim.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular">http://www.nzmuslim.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=MostPopular</a>
 
Shi'ite Encyclopedia (Revised
2001 edition). View online in HTML. Or download chapter by chapter
in Text or
MS Word, or the entire encyclopedia as a zipped file. 
<a
href="http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia">http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia</a>

Sufism, the Way of the Heart 
"The Ways to God are as numerous as the breaths of humankind." -Sufi
Tradition. 
 
Sufiportal. Sufi e-books in German and English. 
<a
href="http://sufiportal.de/download.php?s=list&kid=14">http://sufiportal.de/download.php?s=list&kid=14</a>
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The Hikam of Ibn 'Ata'llah 
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The Jaina Sutras - Akaranga Sutra and Kalpa Sutra, plus a
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Divrei Torah -- Commentaries.
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Myths &
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 Encyclopedia Mythica 
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Proverbs
One Proverb 
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Sprituality
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Science and Health with the Key to the
Scriptures
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Theosophical texts online 
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Judge, Tingley,
Purucker, and others; introductory manuals on theosophy and material
on the
world's sacred traditions. 
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Pantheism The
religion
of nature. Basic beliefs and Belief statement. 
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Shinto
 
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Yengishiki (Shinto
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Sikhism 
Shri Guru Granth Sahib in text form, the thirty one ragas. 
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Select writings - IN HTML, English with
Sanskrit. 
<a
href="http://www.sikhs.org/transl.htm">http://www.sikhs.org/transl.htm</a>

Taoism
 The Tao Te Ching online, in English,
Chinese & German
translations. 
<a
href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttc-list.htm">http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttc-list.htm</a>
 The I Ching in English & Chinese,
HTML.

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Taoism Information Page. Many more Taoist texts
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Zen/Western
Zen
Zen Buddhism A
treasury
of Zen texts.

<a
href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/index.htm">http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/index.htm</a>

Zen Fun 
<a
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The Tao Of Programming & much else 
Modern internationalism -from Russia with love, in English, some
classic
& Modern Zen texts.

<a
href="http://klein.zen.ru/english">http://klein.zen.ru/English</a>
Zen Guide
Koans, stories
& collected words online. Pithy and provocative. 
<a
href="http://www.zenguide.com/zenmedia/index.cfm">http://www.zenguide.com/zenmedia/index.cfm</a>
 
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
 Read this
classic online in HTML, or download as a PDF. <a
href="http://bonigv.tripod.com/">http://bonigv.tripod.com/</a>

Zoroastrianism
 Zoroastrian Archives. Provide the
complete
text of the Avesta, the most ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism,
as well as
many Pahlavi scriptures. It also includes information about the
Avestan language,
and other useful information for students of Zoroastrian
religion. 
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href="http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html">http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html</a>

 
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