Hi Debbie, A couple of months ago we had a lengthy discussion on this very topic on this list. Here are the results of that discussion and a few others. . I haven't checked all of these out, so I don't know how they work. The first few sites were provided by Jim Aldridge, and the rest I gleaned from google and my own favorites list. Maybe others will let us know how they work out. I notice that some of these sites are for pdf files, which will not work on the Pulsedata products, though I hear by the grapevine that another notetaker can now handle pdf files.< dig dig PDI> ------------- www.braille.org www.baen.com/library www.gutenberg.net www.gutenberg.net.au www.a-sites.org www.memoware.com *** end of Jim's sites *** Bartleby.com - http://www.bartleby.com/ Etexts, focusing on classics and general reference works. The Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/ Online public library features directories of online texts, newspapers, magazines, reference materials with special sections for youth. The On-Line Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html Features over 10,000 online books free to the public. Perseus Project http://www.perseus.tufts.edu Includes tests from the classical and renaissance world. The Online Books Page - http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Index of online books, archives, and exhibits. The Online Literature Library - http://www.literature.org/ A small, but easily-navigated selection of online etexts from English literature. Making of America - http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/ A digital library of primary sources in 19th century American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Bibliomania - http://www.bibliomania.com/ Houses an extensive online collection of texts ranging from fiction and poetry to general non-fiction and reference works. Oxford Text Archive - http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/ 2,500 texts, corpora, and reference works. Some are freely available. The ETEXT Archives - http://www.etext.org Searchable archive of texts of fiction, poetry, history, politics and religion. The English Server - http://eserver.org/ Includes a variety of literature-related materials, including etext archives of prose, poetry, fiction, non-fiction; links. SearchEBooks - http://www.searchebooks.com Specialized search engine for searching the full text of thousands of online books available on the web. Page by Page Books - http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Hundreds of books in the public domain, divided into HTML pages. Medieval and Classical Library - http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/ Collection of literary works of classical and medieval civilization. Literature Online Home Page - http://lion.chadwyck.com Over 210,000 links to third party sites, plus 12 extensive literary and reference databases including English and American Poetry (over 200,000 poems), English Drama (4,000 plays), Early English Prose Fiction and The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature Hypertexts in American Studies - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hypertex.html American literature including works by Poe, Jefferson, Madison, and Twain. The Litrix Reading Room - http://www.litrix.com/ A sizeable online archive of literary texts, sorted by genre. CARRIE: A Full-Text Electronic Library - http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/ An extensive link resource, listing texts archived at various locations all across the internet. Also has a searchable database feature. A Collection of Great Literature Online - http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/ Includes archives of now public-domain works by various well-known American and British authors. The Modern English Collection - http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/modeng/modeng0.browse.html History, Civil War, Best sellers 1900-1930 Classic Reader - http://www.classicreader.com/ A collection of classic fiction and non-fiction, poetry, and children's stories. Orange St. Press Classics - http://eserver.org/sparks/classics.html Public Domain classic literature and humanities texts in Adobe Portable Document Format. Free for downloading, reading online or offline, and printing. Electronic Texts and Publishing - http://www.loc.gov/global/etext/etext.html Links to electronic texts, electronic text archives, electronic publishers and booksellers, compiled by the Library of Congress. The Transformation Story Archive - http://tsa.transform.to/ An electronic archive of over 400 stories that deal with transformations. Arthur's Classic Novels - http://www.unityspot.com/arthurs/ Etexts, formatted with XML markup. PSU's Electronic Classics Series - http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm Classics of literature in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Ditigized Library of Southern Literature - http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/southlit/southlit.html There is a collection of 53 texts in HTML and SGML. Access: The Great Books - http://www.anova.org/ A compilation of classic authors and their works, along with biographies, background, study guides. Linked to other sites related to the study of literature. Instinct.org Online Texts - http://www.instinct.org/texts/ Selected online texts on a variety of topics. Electronic Library of the Bath House - http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/hglib.htm Primary historical texts and relevant secondary sources pertaining to the bizarre Roman Emperor Elagabalus and related subjects. An offbeat, fascinating introduction to Imperial Roman history, starting on the fringe. Texts in HTML format. Bralyn E-text Archive - http://www.bralyn.net/etext/ E-texts, indexed and searchable, including literature, history, social sciences, humor and culture. byGosh.com - http://www.bygosh.com Free, online illustrated childrens stories, 20 best out-of-copyright novels of the 20th century, out-of-copyright nonfiction of the 20th century. Also children's stories. The World eText Library - http://netlibrary.net/ Read books on-line, download texts, or select a dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas, or other references. Searchable, browsable database. The Classics in ASCII - http://www.textfiles.com/etext/ Public domain fiction and non-fiction etexts at Textfiles.com. E-texts and Women's History - http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020199.htm From About.com, listing of electronic versions of books, poetry, speeches, and other writings that illuminate women's history. Bootlegbooks - http://www.bootlegbooks.com Several dozen classic works of drama, fiction, nonfiction, reference, or poetry. The Society for the Appreciation of the Post-Dialogic Novel - http://members.tripod.com/~dglen/society.htm For theories on the status of the contemporary novel, reviewing texts in print form, with an eye toward the form's evolution via hypertexts and immersive environments. Twain Enterprises at Villa Gruntose - http://www.gruntose.com Features selected electronic texts, including Doyle, Dumas, and Dana. Public Bookshelf - http://www.publicbookshelf.com/ A collection of books in the public domain which can be downloaded. Literature Project - http://www.literatureproject.com/ A collection of classic books, poems, speeches, and plays. Site offers online chapter-indexed hypertext that can be easily read and searched and each piece includes downloadable e-text of the work. Free Electronic Books - http://onlinesapiens.com/books.html Educational texts. WebCab Library - http://www.zuppa.co.uk/ Collection of public domain e-texts in html, text, or downloadable in zip format, in literature, humanities, religion, science, and reference. Knowledge Rush - http://knowledgerush.com Site contains Project Gutenberg etexts, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, literature and other non-copyrighted material. Master Texts - http://www.mastertexts.com Collection of English literature. Learn Library - http://www.learnlibrary.com/index.htm Offers books, poems, speeches, plays and essays; includes reader discussion forums. Literature of the Fantastic - http://www.sff.net/people/doylemacdonald/lit.htp A fair-sized collection of classic works of fantasy/sf, along with fantasy/sf-related websites. Virtual Library - http://www.online.webzone.ru/elib/index.html Internet archive providing selected fiction and essays in text format. Also features Russian-language section. Owl-Eyes - http://owleyes.home.mindspring.com As well as other literature-education resources, the site provides brief biographical notes on various canonized authors along with links to a selection of online texts by each. Knowledge Search - http://ksearch.f2o.org/ An online books search engine. Blackmask Online - http://www.blackmask.com/ A very large selection of electronic online texts by a wide variety of authors from a wide range of literature; many works can also be downloaded in .zip file-format. Classical Literature Library - http://www.selfknowledge.com/ Online index of classical fiction and nonfiction, with links to search engine searches for each author. Hope this helps. Bob ------- I asked God for strength, that I might achieve I was made weak, that I might learn humbly to obey I asked for health, that I might do greater things I was given infirmity, that I might do better things I asked for riches, that I might be happy I was given poverty, that I might be wise I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men I was given weakness, that I might feel the need of God I asked for all things, that I might enjoy life I was given life that I might enjoy all things I got nothing that I asked for--but everything I had hoped for Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among all men, most richly blessed. ATTRIBUTION: Author unknown.
