Electronic Book Resource List

Created by Dinell Stuckey

Aesops Fables
http://www.aesopfables.com/

Contains 650+ stories

in HTML with morals
listed.

American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/

historical documents
from the Library of
Congress

Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sherlockian Holmpage from the University of Waterloo

www.sherlockian.net

Free download: e-text

files
Also includes pictures,
sound, games

Audible.com
www.audible.com

E-text files
Individual titles can be
downloaded
US$19.95 per month
allows download of 2
audio books per month
Newspaper
subscriptions also
available

Audio Books For Free

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp?gg=2

Some free and some

not

Awesome Talking Library

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Awesome_Talking_Library.html

includes an animated
character, providing
synchronized
highlighting so that
children can follow along
even more easily

Bartleby.com
www.bartleby.com

Free download: e-text

for students
An internet publisher
of literature, reference
and verse

Beantime Stories
http://www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html

free stories and related

games, developed by a
HeadStart teacher and
her husband. The
pictures a small and
busy visually.

Beatrix Potter Stories

http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm

English or Japanese
with small pictures
that dont fill up the
page. High quality
audio files are also
available.
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Free download: e-text

files
Study guides and free
e-text
Contains fiction, nonfiction and poetry

Bibliomania
www.bibliomania.com

Big Books
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/index.htm

Only a little over a

dozen books offered
here with pictures.
They seem to be of an
English dialect using
the word Mum
instead of Mom.
E-text files
Individuals with
qualifying disabilities
who live outside the
United States can
purchase a
subscription allowing
access portions of the
Bookshare.org
collection

Bookshare.org
www.bookshare.org

Browser Books
http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/index.htm

Books that can be

searched by level or
by subject. It will not
read each page by
sentence, but instead
one word at a time.
There is a shared
book library and a
template to make your
own books.

CAST UDL Book Builder

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/
CBeeBies Stories
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/

Cute childrens books

from BBC so they
have an English
accent

Childrens Storybooks Online

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

Several illustrated
stories to view.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library

http://www.ccel.org/

Free Classic Christian

books
Bar D-Ranchs
Cowboy news, poetry
and music

Cowboy Poetry
http://www.cowboypoetry.com/

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The Cranky Librarian

http://crankylibrarian.com/

Search for public

domain books and art
works online
Unabridged classic
audiobooks on CD in
MP3 format
Titles for children and
adults
US$9.95 per disk plus
p&h

Deklin's Domain
www.decklinsdomain.com/Books/WTstore.htm

Digital Book Index

http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm

Over 80,000 e-books,

some for sale. You
must sign in first time

E-Book Finder
www.ebooklocator.com

Search tool to help to

find details of book
titles published in etext format
10,000 titles and 400
publishers

Electronic Text Centre

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/

E-text for thousands of

public domain titles
available in three
formats: e-text, palm
pilot and web version

English Server Drama Collection

http://drama.eserver.org/

collection of both long

and short English
drama plays and
criticism

E-Server Fiction Collection

http://fiction.eserver.org/

Collection of online
fiction texts

Famous Poets and Poems

http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/

Browse among 550

popular poets and
22,000 poems

Folklore and Mythology E-texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

browse everything
from popular fairytales
to Russian ghost
stories

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Free-books.org
www.free-books.org/

Free download: MP3

files
Will read aloud or can
cut and paste into
another document
Print is formatted as
ewriting - a new line
beginning after
punctuation. Also has
thousands of free
photos from around
the world.

Genie Books in PowerPoint

http://www.auburn.edu/~murrag1/bookindex.html

Free decodable books

for beginner readers
all in PowerPoint.

Goggle Book Search

http://books.google.com/

one of the largest

collaborative
digitization projects

Great Books Index

http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html

Free download: e-text

files
Works by many great
writers including
Shakespeare, Darwin,
Twain, Tolstoy, Virgil

Great Literature Online

http://www.classicauthors.net/

Online versions of
classic literary works.
One of the largest
'collections of
collections' on the
Internet.
Free- including
software, music,
literature, art, history,
science, politics, and
cultural studies

iBiblio
http://www.ibiblio.org/

The Institute for Learning Technologies

http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html

Classic books for

upper-level reading

International Children's Digital Library

www.icdlbooks.org

Free download e-text

files for children aged
3-13 years
Many titles in more
than 15 languages

Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Archived lists of
books and more.

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Internet Classic Archive

http://classics.mit.edu/

Free download: e-text

files
Classical literature by
a variety of authors

Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org

This has links to many

public library
resources with free
downloads of e-text
files

Intersect Digital Library Catalog

http://intersect.uoregon.edu/

free model accessible

design of seven books
plus historical
documents

Just Free Books

http://www.justfreebooks.info/

A search engine for

over 450 websites that
offer free books

Lil Fingers Storybooks

http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html

Stories and activities

for learning how to
read.

Literactive
http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp

Free site but you must

register to download
the books.

Manybooks
http://www.manybooks.net/

E-text formatted for

reading via Palm,
PocketPC, Zaurus,
Rocketbook or PDA

Mighty Books
http://www.mightybook.com/

Free childrens books,

games, and songs.

NYC Adapted Books

http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy/adaptedbooks/catalog_by_software.htm

Books from NYC from

different formats like,
IntelliTools,
PowerPoint, Writing
with Symbols, and
Word.

Online Book Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Over 30,000 e-text

books for free

Overdrive Digital Media Locator

http://search.overdrive.com/

This is a search
engine to find free
books.

Premier Assistive Technology E-Library

http://search.overdrive.com/

Many categories of
easy to download
books.

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Priory Woods
http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/books.htm

Stories created by the

teachers form Priory
woods, which is in
England, so they have
a strong accent when
reading the book.

Project Gutenberg
www.promo.net/pg/

Free download: e-text

files
Large number of
public domain titles

ReadPrint
http://www.readprint.com/

Thousands of free etext

Books made mostly
from PowerPoint. They
also have instructions
on how to make your
own PowerPoint
talking books along
with a template
already made.

Region Twos Digital Lending Library

http://www.region2library.org/ppa.htm

includes over 2,000

English poems by 310
poets from the early
medieval period to the
beginning of the
twentieth century."

Representative Poetry Online

http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm

ReadPrint
www.readprint.com

Free download: e-text

Large number of
public domain titles
Listed by author or
search by title

RIF Reading Planet

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx

Fun childrens books

with animation and
songs.

Seedlings Braille Books

http://www.seedlings.org/

Offers books in Braille

and you can sign up
for one free Braille
book.

Set-BC Accessible Books

http://www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/freebooksforyou.html

Free books. Some

made with
PowerPoint,
Boardmaker, Word,
clicker, IntelliTools,
and/or Braille.

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A growing collection of
classic and newlywritten short stories
made available on the
Web

Short Stories
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/

Singing to Me
http://www.singingtome.com/content/index.html

Nursery Rhymes sang

and written to follow
along.

Sonic Central
http://www.sonnets.org/

an archive of English
sonnets, commentary,
pictures, and relevant
web links

Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/

Lots of great animated

stories and games and
activities for teaching
reading. Many school
districts use this site
as well.

Storyline Online
http://www.storylineonline.net/

Popular childrens
books read by famous
actors

StoryNory
http://storynory.com/

Audio Books with

words-Not great
backgrounds

Storyplace
http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp

Childrens stories and

activities to print out.

Talking Book Library

http://www.talkingbooklibrary.net/Matrix.htm

PowerPoint books

Talking Dictionary for Blind

http://www.download3000.com/download-Talking_Dictionary-count-reg-6527.html

Download a free
talking dictionary and
a thesaurus

Tar Heel Reader

http://tarheelreader.org/category/books/

Many books created

by teachers and
parents to share.

Virtual Reader Library

http://www.technotopia.com/books/

Virtual books you can

bookmark and return
to later
Free download: ebraille books and
materials
Password needed

Texas School for the Blind

www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm

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offers subscribers
access animated
books, games, quizzes.
Some libraries pay a
fee and you can access
it for free through
them.

Tumblebooks
http://www.tumblebooks.com

over 2100 free ebooks, including the

Bible, can browse by
subject, including a
category for childrens
literature. There is a
Web version, a
Microsoft version and
a Palm reader version
to put on your Palm

Univ of VA e-Book Library

Wiki Books
http://www.wikibooks.org/

Free educational
textbooks

World Wide School Library

http://www.worldwideschool.org/

Library contains over

2000 books with
comments

The Electronic Braille Book Library

www.braille.org/braille_books/

Free download: ebraille books

1,000 titles listed by
author and title in
braille format - can be
embossed or read via
refreshable braille
display eg BrailleNote

The EText Archives

www.etext.org/

Free download: e-text

files
Politics, fiction,
religion, poetry

The Internet Public Library

www.ipl.org

Free download: e-text

files
Public library
resources

The On-line Books Page

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Free download: e-text

files
Collection of 30,000
listed by title, author
and subject

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UDL Book Builder

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/explore.php
also
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php

Free downloads of
books made by
teachers and parents

Book Summaries, Notes and Study Guides

Spark Notes (overview, character list, chapter summaries, study questions, and quizzes
on hundreds of books, including MP3 version of the notes) http://www.sparknotes.com

Pink Monkey (400 books with background, analysis, chapter summaries, and study
questions) Note: adjust browser window to eliminate distracting animations.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com
Free Literature Study Guides. http://www.bookrags.com/browse/studyguides/
Free Book summaries. http://www.bookwolf.com/

Text to Speech Software

ReadPlease www.readplease.com starts at $49.95

Natural Voice Reader www.naturalreaders.com starts at $49.50.
Nonvisual Desktop Access-NVDA (free) http://www.nvda-project.org/
WordTalk http://wordtalk.org.uk/
Reading Made Easy http://www.readingmadeez.com/trial/