Free Books Online for Scholarly Searches and Research

Free Libraries Online For Research, Diversion, Education
The University of Pennsylvania provides an enormous library of books free to you and to your college student sons and daughters.  Online electronic text libraries can be downloaded or read online.  The advantage to this type of electronic text is, of course the price (free), but actually, that is incidental to a serious student.  The greatest advantage of electronic text is its searchability.  A student can search and find instances of key phrases and create hyperlinks (that in another blog later) that link one work to another.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
         ONLINE BOOKS PAGE          

Of course there are Google Books.  This is another source of books available for research.  Google actually lets you build a small online library so that you have all your books in one place.  For instance, "A Treatise On Human Nature" by David Hume.  Google offers you to buy the book:  The one pictured here was a 2003 edition; there is also an 1853 Boston:  Little and Brown edition in page pictures format.  There a hundreds of Magazines, often cited ebooks, and beautiful books online of Photography and Art to sooth the eye or educate the mind.

ONLINE GOOGLE LIBRARY


http://www.bartleby.com/
Bartleby is another great site for learning.  The Complete Harvard Classics, Gray's anatomy with beautiful plates.  The example at the left, here, is greatly reduced for this blog.  But at Bartleby, it is in its original size.  

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  Emily Dickinson
  Love Quotes
  U.S. Inaugurals
  Poetry Anthologies
  Strunk's Style
  Walt Whitman
  Bartlett's Quotations
  Robert Frost
  Respectfully Quoted
  William Wordsworth
  T.S. Eliot
  Post's Etiquette
  John Keats
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Edgar Lee Masters
  Gerard Manley Hopkins

ManyBooks.net

Many books is another site with free books.  What's interesting about this site is that these books are even available in Kindle format and in several other formats for easy reading on handheld or Ebooks Readers.  Many books has an expansive library.

  

The Gutenberg Project

The Gutengerg Project is probably the most famous receptacle of online books.  A note to parents of younger children.  This is a great site to get books for children.  Don't have time to run to the library today?  Click onto The Gutenberg Project and let the kids read wonder such as:

Contents

AUDIO BOOKS, PODCAST LECTURES, AUDIO CONTENT.  Besides all these written libraries there are several online facilities with audio content for when your eyes are tired, for the vision impaired, and for you and your student when you are driving, on the go (on your mp3 player), or taking a walk.  Check out free-books.org.  Also check out LIBRIVOX (taken from two Latin words meaning book, voice) .  OPEN CULTURE provides foreign language learning, college lectures, classic books.  Lit2Go is a great site for parents of younger students and also older students doing research in Education.
Nickelodeon?  No! Nikolledoolin is another site with great Audio Books -- these again for students of all ages and for older College and Graduate Students doing research on Education, Sociology, Psychology, History, etc.
LiteralSystems.orgLiteral Systems is yet another great Audio site and is beautifully designed.  
There are literally thousands of other sites out there in every language imaginable.  But I did want to finish withe Learn Out Loud -- one of my favorite sites.  They do have material for sale, to be sure -- but what I like about Learn Out Loud are the Podcasts all in one place -- these Podcasts consist of motivational materials you can share with your clients or your students or your young, teen, or adult sons and daughters.  I, personally learned so much, one day, while I was painting my French Doors.  I was listening to a lecture on Archaeology.  I have listened to Fitness and Health lectures, Psychology, Philosophy, Motivational.  These are lectures available online by famous Authors, and Professors from prestigious Universities around the world.  Check out Learn Out Loud and you won't be sorry.
 


 

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