FREE E-BOOKS WEBLIOGRAPHY A sampling of websites for finding the complete text of books online. You NEED that book (or poem, or story, etc.), but the library doesn't have it available. What do you do? Check out one of these sites; you might just find it online!

Bartleby.com's Great Books Online
www.bartleby.com/
Bartleby.com's Great Books Online contains Reference books (Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Atlas', Anatomy, Quotations, Thesaurus, Bible, etc), Classics, Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.

Bibliomania
www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html
Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, stories, articles, plays & more!

Classic Bookshelf Electronic Library
www.classicbookshelf.com/library/
Classic Bookshelf Electronic Library provides links to electronic classics!

Classic Reader
www.classicreader.com/
"The collection currently contains 646 books and 905 short stories by 195 authors. New works are added to the collection on a regular basis, many at the suggestion of readers."

Great Books & Classics Online
www.grtbooks.com/
This site organizes e-books by chronology starting from as old as < 200BC all the way to the present in groups primarily by century.

International Children's Digital Library
www.icdlbooks.org/
Offers more than 800 children's books online.

IPL Online Texts Collection
www.ipl.org/div/subject/browse/hum60.60.00/
Links to over 20,000 titles that can be searched or browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.

The Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
The Online Books Page has 16000+ Listings and is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania.

Project Gutenberg
www.gutenberg.org/
Offers about 16,000 free electronic books. Includes titles in several world languages.

If you can’t find the complete text of the title you’re looking for with one of these sites, try a Google search, such as:

“brave new world” “online text”

and see what comes up.

You can also ask a Teen Services Librarian for assistance.

You can also pick up a copy of this weblio in the Young Adult Room on the 2nd floor of the library.

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