Online e-Book Resources

eAudiobooks and eBooks

LiLI.org

Referene books on LiLI.org. A nice selection from medical encyclopedias to fashion and culture. You will need to enter your zip code and city to gain access to the materials.

The Hathi Trust

http://www.hathitrust.org/

Conglomeration of libraries – not all full-text (filter search for full view only) – doesn’t work with devices – can view books without logging in – academic focus – significant overlap with Google Books (see below). It is possible that a PDF of the entire book can be downloaded from Google Book Search, if a book is “full view” in Hathi Trust.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Classics focus – Devices: iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Nook & others – 33,000 of 100,000 titles work with devices – MARC records.

Google Books/eBooks/Magazines

http://books.google.com/

http://books.google.com/ebooks

Includes books for purchase – but also includes many books available in the public domain – some of the eBooks work with devices: iOS (iPhone, iPad), Nook, Sony, Android.

Internet Archive

http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Includes a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books (comics and graphic novels are coming).

See also: Open Library - http://openlibrary.org/

International Children’s Digital Library

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/

Free eBooks resources for kids.

National Academics Press

http://www.nap.edu/

Academic titles – many are from the hard sciences – not all full text – free (chapters and full book) and for purchase – Adobe PDF format. (When you click to put into the shopping cart, there is an option to click for a free download.)

Librivox

http://librivox.org/

eAudiobooks in the public domain – read by volunteers – MP3 files.

Where else to go to find eBooks:

iPL2 eReader Resources - http://www.ipl.org/div/ereader/

The Online Books Page - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Boise Public Library http://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/eCollections/Websites/OnlineeBooksandeAudio.asp

Boise State University

http://library.boisestate.edu/reference/books.shtm

http://freeebooksforkindle.org/

http://www.obooko.com/

getfreeebooks.com