Electronic Book Resource List

Created by Dinell Stuckey

Aesops Fables Contains 650+ stories

http://www.aesopfables.com/ in HTML with morals
listed.
historical documents
American Memory
from the Library of
http://memory.loc.gov/
Congress
Free download: e-text
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sherlockian Holmpage from the University of Waterloo files
www.sherlockian.net Also includes pictures,
sound, games
E-text files
Individual titles can be
downloaded
US$19.95 per month
Audible.com
allows download of 2
www.audible.com audio books per month
Newspaper
subscriptions also
available
Audio Books For Free
Some free and some
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp?gg=2 not

includes an animated
character, providing
Awesome Talking Library
synchronized highlighting
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Awesome_Talking_Library.html so that children can follow
along even more easily
Free download: e-text
for students
Bartleby.com
An internet publisher of
www.bartleby.com literature, reference
and verse
free stories and related
games, developed by a
Beantime Stories HeadStart teacher and
http://www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html her husband. The
pictures a small and
busy visually.
English or Japanese
with small pictures that
Beatrix Potter Stories
don’t fill up the page.
http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm
High quality audio files
are also available.

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Free download: e-text

files
Bibliomania Study guides and free
www.bibliomania.com e-text
Contains fiction, non-
fiction and poetry
Only a little over a
dozen books offered
Big Books here with pictures.
http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/index.htm 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
Bookshare.org
United States can
www.bookshare.org purchase a subscription
allowing access
portions of the
Bookshare.org
collection
Books that can be
searched by level or by
Browser Books
subject. It will not read
http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/index.htm each page by
sentence, but instead
one word at a time.
There is a shared book
CAST UDL Book Builder library and a template
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ to make your own
books.
CBeeBies Stories Cute children’s books
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/ from BBC so they have
an English accent
Children’s Storybooks Online Several illustrated
http://www.magickeys.com/books/ stories to view.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Free Classic Christian
http://www.ccel.org/ books

Cowboy Poetry Bar D-Ranch’s Cowboy

http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ news, poetry and music

The Cranky Librarian Search for public

http://crankylibrarian.com/ domain books and art

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works online
Unabridged classic
audiobooks on CD in
MP3 format
Deklin's Domain
Titles for children and
www.decklinsdomain.com/Books/WTstore.htm adults
US$9.95 per disk plus
p&h
Digital Book Index Over 80,000 e-books,
http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm some for sale. You
must sign in first time
Search tool to help to
find details of book
E-Book Finder titles published in e-text
www.ebooklocator.com format
10,000 titles and 400
publishers
E-text for thousands of
public domain titles
Electronic Text Centre
available in three
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ formats: e-text, palm
pilot and web version
collection of both long
English Server Drama Collection and short English
http://drama.eserver.org/ drama plays and
criticism
E-Server Fiction Collection Collection of online
http://fiction.eserver.org/ fiction texts
Browse among 550
Famous Poets and Poems
popular poets and
http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/ 22,000 poems
browse everything from
Folklore and Mythology E-texts
popular fairytales to
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html Russian ghost stories

Free-books.org Free download: MP3

www.free-books.org/ files
Will read aloud or can
cut and paste into
another document
Print is formatted as
ewriting - a new line
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beginning after
punctuation. Also has
thousands of free
photos from around the
world.
Free decodable books
Genie Books in PowerPoint
for beginner readers all
http://www.auburn.edu/~murrag1/bookindex.html in PowerPoint.
one of the largest
Goggle Book Search
collaborative
http://books.google.com/ digitization projects
Free download: e-text
files
Great Books Index Works by many great
http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html writers including
Shakespeare, Darwin,
Twain, Tolstoy, Virgil
Great Literature Online Online versions of
http://www.classicauthors.net/ classic literary works.
One of the largest
'collections of
collections' on the
iBiblio Internet.
http://www.ibiblio.org/ Free- including
software, music,
literature, art, history,
science, politics, and
cultural studies
The Institute for Learning Technologies Classic books for
http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html upper-level reading
Free download e-text
files for children aged
International Children's Digital Library
3-13 years
www.icdlbooks.org Many titles in more
than 15 languages
Internet Archive Archived lists of books
http://www.archive.org/index.php and more.
Free download: e-text
Internet Classic Archive files
http://classics.mit.edu/ Classical literature by a
variety of authors
This has links to many
Internet Public Library public library resources
www.ipl.org with free downloads of
e-text files

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free model accessible

Intersect Digital Library Catalog design of seven books
http://intersect.uoregon.edu/ plus historical
documents
A search engine for
Just Free Books
over 450 websites that
http://www.justfreebooks.info/ offer free books
Stories and activities
Lil Fingers Storybooks
for learning how to
http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html read.
Free site but you must
Literactive
register to download
http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp the books.
E-text formatted for
Manybooks reading via Palm,
http://www.manybooks.net/ PocketPC, Zaurus,
Rocketbook or PDA
Mighty Books Free children’s books,
http://www.mightybook.com/ games, and songs.
Books from NYC from
different formats like,
NYC Adapted Books
IntelliTools,
http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy/adaptedbooks/catalog_by_software.htm PowerPoint, Writing
with Symbols, and
Word.
Online Book Page Over 30,000 e-text
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ books for free

Overdrive Digital Media Locator This is a search engine

http://search.overdrive.com/ to find free books.
Many categories of
Premier Assistive Technology E-Library
easy to download
http://search.overdrive.com/ books.
Stories created by the
teachers form Priory
Priory Woods
woods, which is in
http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/books.htm England, so they have
a strong accent when
reading the book.
Free download: e-text
Project Gutenberg files
www.promo.net/pg/ Large number of public
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ReadPrint Thousands of free e-

http://www.readprint.com/ text
Books made mostly
from PowerPoint. They
Region Two’s Digital Lending Library also have instructions
http://www.region2library.org/ppa.htm on how to make your
own PowerPoint talking
books along with a
template already made.

includes over 2,000

Representative Poetry Online English poems by 310
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm poets from the early
medieval period to the
beginning of the
twentieth century."

Free download: e-text

ReadPrint Large number of public
www.readprint.com domain titles
Listed by author or
search by title

RIF Reading Planet Fun children’s books

http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx with animation and
songs.

Seedlings Braille Books Offers books in Braille

http://www.seedlings.org/ and you can sign up for
one free Braille book.

Set-BC Accessible Books Free books. Some

made with PowerPoint,
http://www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/freebooksforyou.html
Boardmaker, Word,
clicker, IntelliTools,
and/or Braille.

Short Stories A growing collection of

classic and newly-
http://www.short-stories.co.uk/
written short stories
made available on the
Web

Singing to Me
Nursery Rhymes sang
http://www.singingtome.com/content/index.html
and written to follow
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Sonic Central an archive of English

http://www.sonnets.org/ sonnets, commentary,
pictures, and relevant
web links

Lots of great animated

Starfall stories and games and
activities for teaching
http://www.starfall.com/
reading. Many school
districts use this site as
well.

Storyline Online Popular children’s

http://www.storylineonline.net/ books read by famous
actors

StoryNory
Audio Books with
http://storynory.com/
words-Not great
backgrounds

Storyplace
Children’s stories and
http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp
activities to print out.
Talking Book Library
http://www.talkingbooklibrary.net/Matrix.htm PowerPoint books

Talking Dictionary for Blind Download a free talking

http://www.download3000.com/download-Talking_Dictionary-count-reg-6527.html dictionary and a
thesaurus

Tar Heel Reader Many books created by

http://tarheelreader.org/category/books/ teachers and parents to
share.

Virtual Reader Library

Virtual books you can
http://www.technotopia.com/books/
bookmark and return to
later
Free download: e-
Texas School for the Blind braille books and
www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm materials
Password needed
Tumblebooks offers subscribers
http://www.tumblebooks.com access animated books,
games, quizzes. Some
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you can access it for

free through them.
over 2100 free e-books,
including the Bible, can
browse by subject,
including a category for
Univ of VA e-Book Library
children’s literature.
There is a Web version,
a Microsoft version and
a Palm reader version
to put on your Palm
Wiki Books Free educational
http://www.wikibooks.org/ textbooks
Library contains over
World Wide School Library
2000 books with
http://www.worldwideschool.org/ comments
Free download: e-
braille books
1,000 titles listed by
author and title in
The Electronic Braille Book Library braille format - can be
www.braille.org/braille_books/ embossed or read via
refreshable braille
display eg BrailleNote
Free download: e-text
The EText Archives files
www.etext.org/ Politics, fiction, religion,
poetry
Free download: e-text
The Internet Public Library
files
www.ipl.org Public library resources
Free download: e-text
files
The On-line Books Page
Collection of 30,000
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ listed by title, author
and subject
UDL Book Builder
Free downloads of
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/explore.php
books made by
also teachers and parents
http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php

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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/