Here
is a list of links to websites with information I reference a lot for
research on my books, and a long list of websites with ebooks
available
including
spiritual and religious ebook sites
Misc
Ebook & Sacred Text Ebook
Sites:
English
Free Ebook
Sites
Abacci
Books
This unusual site makes Project Gutenberg free
e-book classics available for download together with reviews of those
books
from Amazon.com. Includes links to buy a hard copy
if
desired. Access books by author, title,
category or
most popular.
www.abacci.com/books/default.asp
Abacci
eBooks
Over a thousand free
e-books for the Pocket PC & the PC (LIT files formatted for
Microsoft
Reader). Includes Amazon.com reviews. A selection of both classic & lesser-known works,
thanks to
site owner Peter Shanks, who personally formatted many.
www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx
Alive
& Free
A page of links to some recent books from living authors available free
on-line. Warning: many controversial authors & titles here.
www.c3f.com/alivfree.html
Ask
Sam ebooks Free
searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt
reports, legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. NB:
Requires
registration & downloading the free askSam
viewer
software to use. Check file size before
downloading
e-books, as some can be very large. www.asksam.com/ebooks/
Asiaing
Offers
an eclectic mix of news about magazines,
books, reports & other reading and viewing material. The e-book
section
offers online access to a varied range of intelligent, non-fiction
books, and
in some cases PDF downloads.
www.asiaing.com
Authorama
A
selection
of Public Domain classic books or Creative Commons licensed texts. In XHTML, for your Web browser. Mostly in
English, some German. From Philipp Lenssen
of Stuttgart. www.authorama.com/
Alex
Catalogue of Electronic Texts
is a collection of public domain documents from American and English
literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and
display texts
from the collection & also search their content, & even create
on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing.
www.infomotions.com/alex
arXiv
e-Prints Includes
e-Print "preprints" in physics, mathematics, biology,
finance, statistics, nonlinear sciences, and computer sciences. From
Cornell
University with assistance from the National Science Foundation (USA),
the
National Institute for Theoretical Physics (USA) and the University of
Adelaide
(Australia). Formats include PDF, PostScript, and DVI. Gives open
access to
over half a million e-prints.
www.arxiv.org
NB: There are mirror sites in Australia,
Brazil, China, France, Germany,
UK, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, &
USA.
Athena
Thousands
of
mainly French and Swiss-authored e-texts, across a broad range of
especially
Literature, Science & the Arts. In .html &. rtf
versions. Also many links to famous works
in German,
Dutch & English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the
University of
Geneva. Expand your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
Bartleby.com
The
Encyclopedia of World History and The Harvard Classics are among many
free
texts offered at this award-winning site. Many classic reference works
are
available here.
www.bartleby.com/index.html
Baen
Free Library
Participating
authors place free electronic versions of their works here, usually the
first novel or novels in an ongoing series. More than forty writers are
represented, essentially in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres. You can
either
read them online, or download zipped file versions in HTML, Microsoft
Reader,
Palm/Mobipocket, Rocket/Ebookwise
or RTF formats. Registration is requested.
www.baen.com/library
BestWebsitesPortal.com
This
site features a select list of specialised
websites related to literature, including free online e-books.
www.bestwebsitesportal.com/Literature.htm
Bibliomania
Offers
more
than 2,000 free classic texts, plus reference books, biographies and
other
research works. In HTML format, readable by your
web browser.
www.bibliomania.com
Bibliotheca
Augustana
A Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae
Latina, Graeca, Anglica,
Gallica, Germanica, Hispanica,
Italica, Iiddica, Lusitana, Polonica et Russica.
Collectio textuum electronicorum.
Hae paginae
proponent Musa adiuvante in lingua Latina
- facta
et ficta.
www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
Bookboon
Free travel guides & academic books for students, in PDF format.
The
texts are sponsored by in-book advertisements, and are mostly in
English, with
a few others in Danish, Dutch, German and Swedish. Note that these are
large
downloads, more suitable for broadband.
http://bookboon.com/int
Bookrags
have 1,500 classic titles available, for Palm or other handheld devices.
www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html
CELT
(Corpus of
Electronic Texts). Over one thousand Irish
literary,
historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French,
and
English. Presented in HTML, with a
searchable online
database. An initiative of University
College, Cork,
Republic of Ireland.
www.ucc.ie/celt
CogPrints
Cognitive Sciences Eprint* Archive -
Includes a
wide variety of papers in psychology,neuroscience,
linguistics, philosophy, biology, medicine, anthropology and computer
science.
Material dates back as far as 1950, although most of it dates since
1990 http://cogprints.soton.ac.uk
Complete
Works of William Shakespeare
but minus his poetry at
present.
The plays can be read either as a continuous text
or by individual scenes. For reading online, in
HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Cornell
University Library Historical Monographs
Comprises 441 general monographs made available
for online viewing as TIFF images, for personal or research use only.
Languages
include English, Dutch, French, German, Latin, Portuguese
& Spanish. A fascinating mishmash of topics,
including
some science.
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/c/cdl/
Diesel
Gratis Collection
Over 750 free e-books
representing more than 400
authors, formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket.
Includes classic American and
British fiction, U.S. history,
children's literature, Shakespeare, African-American documents and more.
Browsable by author,
title or subject
. From Diesel eBooks.
www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download
The
Digital Book Index "A
Union catalog(ue) of Electronic books,
texts
and documents." The Digital Book Index provides links to more than
144,000
full-text digital books from more than 1,800 commercial and
non-commercial
publishers, universities, and private sites. You can search this site byauthor, title etc
or browse by
subjects or specific publisher lists. Please note however that not all
material
is free. An extremely useful resource however for
tertiary
students and scholars.
www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm
Dr
Jack Cross's Electronic Archive A
collection of Dr Jack
Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the
Bodleian
Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary
Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of
the
modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad,
& The History of Herodotus toThe
Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe,
Darwin and
many more.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/
The
Digital
Library of the Commons (DLC) An
archive
of international literature on "the commons" (i.e. that which
is held in common or by a community).
Many useful features for both readers and
contributing authors.
Includes a full-text Digital
Library of articles, papers, and
dissertations, a Working Paper Archive of author-submitted papers, and
links to
relevant references. http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu
Digital
Library for Earth System Education:
DLESE
Over 5,000 searchable
educational resources. Items are also organized into themes or
collections,
broadly as environmental, geographical, geological, oceanographical
and other physical sciences; space science and technology; policy and
educational issues and the philosophy of science. Resources are not
archived on
site but in a variety of collaborating collections. Funded
by
the National Science Foundation (USA).
www.dlese.org/dds/index.jsp
Digital
Library of Information Science and
Technology: dLIST
A
repository of over 1,400 electronic resources in many subject areas,
especially
Library and Information Science (LIS), digital Web disciplines and
Information
Technology (IT). Contains published and unpublished papers, data sets
instructional and help materials, pathfinder ,
reports
& bibliographies. So far in English only. User registration
required to
access some areas. In HTML or PDF.
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/
Ebooks
Online Library
Around thirty-six authors ranging from Aesop to
Sun Tzu, with huge representation of Arnold Bennett, Anton Chekhov,
Charles
Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Jack London, Edgar Allan Poe &
Oscar
Wilde, plus a goodly measure of Ambrose Bierce, Jules Verne, Jane
Austen &
Mark Twain. www.readasily.com/
Elfwood
Elfwood is a huge,
non-profit home to amateur
Fantasy/Sci-Fi literature and art, plus some How -To Guides and fan
art. The
site holds over half a million works of art & literature by over
35,000
Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers. Formerly
hosted by
a Swedish computer society, Lysator.
http://www.elfwood.com/
The
E Server Bit
of a
mind flip might be an exaggeration, but there is certainly nothing
stodgy about
this large (over 35,000) & contemporary collection of online
intellectual
texts & resources. Based at the University of
Washington.
The illustrated subject links are a nice touch too.
http://eserver.org
Electronic
Text Collections in Western European
Literature
Links
site for literary texts in Western European languages other than
English.
Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician,
German,
Greek, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Old Norse, Portuguese,Romanian,
Spanish & Swedish.
www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
Electronic
Texts On The Internet
A
useful
links page with over sixty entries. For some light relief, check out
the
Shakespearean Insult Generator.
www.refdesk.com/factelec.html
Ebooks4free
is in
transition to a new, automated site version, so only a limited amount
of the
previous site is available at present. Prior description:Links
to" free e-books and manuscripts, historical documents &
literature,
religion & magik, audio readings and
much
more.." Multilingual site - languages include English, Italian, French,
German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin.
The inner search engine actually translates into three languages:
English
Italian and (surprisingly!) Latin. In
plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or as PDFs.
www.ebooks4free.net
Elegant
Solutions Software Company
have a great free e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC:
Motto:" Ebooks for people who think".
Don't
forget to check out the children's page there, for wonderful classic
tales for
young & old. In Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket
formats.
http://esspc-ebooks.com/
EuroDocs
Primary
historical documents from Europe (including Russia, Belarus and
Ukraine).
Selected Transcriptions,
Facsimiles and Translations.
Presented as: Prehistoric & Ancient Europe,Medieval & Renaissance Europe, Europe
as a
Supranational Region, and some forty-seven national jurisdictions
ranging from
tiny Andorra to the major states to Vatican City.
http://eurodocs.lib.byu.edu
Europeana
This recent (Nov.2008) resource, still in Beta, represents an ambitious
pan-European project co-funded by the European Union. It provides links
to over
4 million digital items in text, picture, sound or video forms held by
contributing European institutions (libraries, archives, museums,
galleries
& research institutes). www.europeana.eu/portal/
FlipBooks
Books
prepared to be read in the FlipViewer (see
Software Page). A highly
visual format especially suitable for displaying albums of images etc.
www.fliplibrary.com
Franklin
Free Library
Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats. Some titles are
also available for purchase as Franklin Reader formatted e-books.
www.franklin.com/freelibrary
Free
Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks Over
fifty new novels
ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A
gift from new
authors seeking your attention. How about Isildur,
Brian K. Crawford's Lord of the Rings prequel? Either
as HTML or asdownloadable files.
Warning,
browsing here may be addictive...
www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htm
Great
Books Index
From Aeschylus to Virginia Woolf - links to online works, in
English translation, by more than 130 classic authors. Please check for
any
copyright restrictions (which may in a few cases apply for other than
reading
online). A redoubtable effort from Ken Roberts of
Ontario,
Canada. http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html
Great
Books and Classics
Provides free HTML online versions of many famous authors from before
200
BC to the 20th Century. Linked with Amazon.com for
commercial
print offerings of the titles.
www.grtbooks.com
Internet
Classics Archive
More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman texts, with some Chinese and Persian. By 59 different authors. In
English
translation. For online reading, some downloads available.
http://classics.mit.edu
Internet
Public Library Over
20,000 free
books available online. The Internet Public Library's Mission Statement
says: " The Internet Public Library (IPL),
is a public
service organization and learning/teaching environment at the
University of
Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online Texts Collection
contains over
20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classificationwww.ipl.org/reading/books
Journals
Free The
University of Nevada's Reno Libraries offer
links to about 1500 free online academic journals, on almost 100
subjects. Organised
alphabetically. A wonderful public resource.
www.knowledgecenter.unr.edu/ejournals/free.aspx
Kurt
Stüber's
Online Library - historic and modern biology books
Over 400 books on biological subjects, many currently out of print and
hard to obtain. Mostly German authors, but luminaries such as Charles
Darwin are
also present. In German, with some English and French (a few works are
old
enough to be in Latin). Online, in text chapters or as individual
scanned
pages. Browse the collection by author, title, category
or publication date. Site presented in English and German versions.
www.zum.de/stueber/
Literature
@
SunSITE Collection
of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors.
May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
manybooks.net
Free e-books for PDAs +. At last count about 24,000 public domain
e-books
from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere. They're available here either to
read
online in plain text, or formatted to download for the Adobe Reader,
(Palm) eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook
and other softwares.
http://manybooks.net/
*Go to"WAP-enabled" mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/)
for free
e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone), including the iPhone. For
PSP
(PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books,
visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/
Memidex
Free
online
dictionary/thesaurus.
Browse alphabetically
or use the simple FIND box. The database is derived from an expanded
and
improved version of Princeton University's WordNet.
Both UK & US spellings here - a goodie!
www.memidex.com
Memoware
have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a
variety
of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning
site.
www.memoware.com
MIT
OpenCourseWare An
ambitious & generous plan to make all Massachusetts Institute of
Technology course materials available on the Internet, for free
download.
Materials for 1900 courses are now accessible (the (project began at
the
end of September 2003). Materials are in English, but a number are also
available in Spanish & Portuguese. Presented
in HTML.
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html
Course list at http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Global/all-courses.htm
National
Academy Press
Read over 3,000 National Academy science,
engineering, and health texts free online - others are for purchase.
You can
also buy print copies if you wish. These e-books represent the cream of
U.S.
research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented in a
fully-searchable "Open Book" format, which also allows for page
browsing & internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the
format is prepared so that you can send people an individual page
reference as
an URL. PDFs are also available. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences
provides
this site.
www.nap.edu
Networked
Digital Library of Theses and
Dissertations (NDLTD)
Links to digital theses/dissertations
available in Australia, Canada, many European nations, Hong Kong,
Taiwan &
the USA.
www.ndltd.org/
Online
Books Page
This University of Pennsylvania site offers access links to more than
35,000 books online. Plain presentation, but well worth the browse.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Online
Medieval and Classical Library
From The
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Yvain,
or The Knight With the Lion, &
including such works as: The Lay of the Cid, The Song of Roland, the Nibelungenlied, Orlando Furioso,
the High History of the Holy Graal, many
Icelandic
sagas, some Chaucer & much else besides. In HTML for reading
online, or
download in PKZIP v.2.04g compressed format. Thanks to Douglas B.
Killings, Sun
Systems & the University of California at Berkeley.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL
Oxford
Text Archive
From Oxford University,
this archive was founded
in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic
texts for
research and teaching. More than 2,500
resources in
over 25 different languages. A premium
academic
resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the
on-line
catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some
texts
require the user to obtain the written permission of the original
depositor.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
Pennsylvania
State University Electronic
Classics Site: " The Labyrinth" PSU's
e-books are presented as .pdf files
(Portable Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Reader.
Established in
1997, the site offers many classical works of literature in English,
plus
original works published by Penn. State Uni.
www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Perseus
Project A
great classical digital library site, with Greek & Latin texts,
commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology and more.
www.perseus.tufts.edu
Project
Libellus The
University
of Washington, Seattle, provides this library of Latin texts, readable
in your
web browser. In HTML & TeX
(a
subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.
www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus
Project
Madurai
Tamil Digital Library under preparation by
voluntary effort.
So far over 240 works in Tamil script are
available, in TSCII (Tamil Script Code for Information Interchange)
format. Old
Tamil classic works predominate so far. Use a Unicode font with Tamil
block and
select "unicode/utf-8" charset in your
browser preferences to read here.
www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/
Project
Runeberg
Project
Runeberg publishes free
electronic editions of
old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992.
More than 300 titles, mostly in
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish &
Icelandic.
www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
PalmPilot
Archives
Many sites featuring free or for-purchase texts
formatted for Palm readers.
www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm
PDF
Books This
new site
offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books, classified
alphabetically by author. They're all .pdf
files, but
you can have them either as standard PDF or mobile versions for a small
screen
(with five times as many pages).
www.pdfbooks.co.za/
Planet
eBook
A collection of around
forty leading classic novels, in
English, as PDF files. There are no restrictions on the non-commercial
use of
these quality editions.
www.planetebook.com/
Planet
PDF
Free eBooks area
Recent asset for popular classic novels in the
PDF format - nearly seventy here.
Also offers
nitroPDF software, an
alternative to Adobe.
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp
Planetfreebook
2009 site offering a collection of 4,000+ classic, public domain titles
arranged alphabetically by author surname, forename and title.
Cookbooks
section too. Texts are in PDF format for the Adobe Reader and other PDF
readers. No registration required.
www.planetfreebook.com/
PocketPC
Books
More than forty free e- books (mostly
popular classics) in over a dozen genres, prepared for the PocketPC
in Microsoft Reader (.lit format). These editions are under a creative
commons licence, so they can also be
copied or given away freely
(unaltered and for non-commercial purposes). The home page is available
in six
European languages.
www.pocketpcbooks.net/
Project
Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library of books no
longer in
copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary texts here. The
full
Gutenberg collection now exceeds 28,000 books. The whole collection
represents
a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour
since 1971. www.gutenberg.org
PublicLiterature.Org
Samples
of the work of established and aspiring writers (e.g. poetry, book
excerpts, short stories & plays), presented as a blog. Also
around 70 classic books online as text, many also as audio.
http://publicliterature.org/
Qvadis
Library
offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32
categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices.
www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library
Read
Print
A great
selection of free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction
available to
read online, from over 3,500 authors. Browse the author list for your favourites.
www.readprint.com
Soil
And Health Library Free
public library offering books on holistic agriculture (around 80
works), holistic health, self-sufficient living, and personal
development.
www.soilandhealth.org
Scorpius
Digital Publishing
have
many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html
Only in Microsoft Reader however.
Tale
Wins Marleen
Roberts' site for authors & readers. Free
books in a range of genres, e.g. romance, adventure, westerns, kids books, short
stories. As exe
files or PDFs, or read some online in HTML.
www.talewins.com
Universal
Library (under development)
"The principal benefit of the Universal Library will be to
supplement the formal education system by making knowledge available to
anyone
who can read and has access." A project of Carnegie Mellon University
& the governments of China & India - much of the scanning will
be done
in the latter two countries. The million books project will have
considerable
content in many Indian and Chinese languages, as well as English. For
more
information about this far-reaching initiative see:
http://www.ulib.org/
University
of California eScholarship
Editions This
collection generously includes over 500 books on scholarly topics
marked
for general public access. Online in chapters, for
your Web
browser.
http://texts.cdlib.org/ucpress/
University
of Virginia Electronic Text Center has
more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts inthirteen
languages (& over 164,000 publicly available images). These texts
are
available to web browsers, but in addition there are 2,000 + e-books
available
(in English) for MS Reader & Palm Reader.
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/finding_digital.html
Virtual
Library
"The Virtual Library is the oldest catalog of the web, started by
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the Web itself. Unlike
commercial
catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile
pages
of key links for particular areas in which they are expert…" Sixteen primary categories to check out, or use the
search engine.
www.vlib.org/
World
eBook Library .
For a small
annual fee, offers access to over 500,000 PDF e-books and e-documents,
plus
7,000 mp3 audio books. From the World Electronic
Text Library
Foundation, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.
http://netlibrary.net/WorldHome.html
Webooks.com
eLibrary
Links to over 2,200 free e-books in html, for reading online. In
sixteen
broad categories, also includes journals & magazines.
www.web-books.com/e/Library
WebLiterature
This
recent site, a worthy private effort from Mrs
S Dey, aims to supply much
free classic literature in English. Contents include nearly 7,000
titles -
greatest novels, short stories, essays, poems and some non-fiction. For reading online, in chapters.
www.webliterature.net
Witguides
Large range of topics include health and
fitness, computing, pets, parenting, sports, entertainment and more.
NB: These
books are prepared as downloadable zip files that you unzip to read
offline.
They show you relevant Amazon books you might like to read as well.
www.witguides.com/
WORD
IQ Over
ten thousand online e-books, in plain text.
Available in order of popularity
or search for title.
www.wordiq.com/books/index.php
Religious,
Spiritual, and Metaphysical books
Ancient
Egypt
Ancient
Egyptian Pantheon Names
Descriptions
& other information on the gods
of old Egypt.
www.vibrani.com/gods.htm
Egyptian
Book of the Dead
- The Papyrus of Ani;
Egyptian Book of the Dead.
www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Books/Papyrus_Ani.html
Ra
and the Serpent Egyptian
myth of creation.
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~humm/Resources/StudTxts/raSerpnt.html
Asian
Classic Texts
The Asian Classics Input Project works to preserve disappearing books
containing the great ideas of the Eastern half of humanity, and to make
these
books and ideas accessible to the world at large. Downloadable mainly
as zipped
text & rtf files. Includes ACIP Release V: World.Wide.Wisdom.
Over 200 previously unreleased
titles from the classics of
traditional Asian philosophy in the Tibetan language.
www.asianclassics.org
Baha'i
Bahá'í
Sacred Writings
and other books, articles etc.
To read online, or downloadable as text,
rtf or
Word documents. A Baha'i library Online.
www.bahai-library.org
The
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
www.ibiblio.org/Bahai/Texts/English/AQD/AQD-4.html
The
Kitáb-i-Iqán
http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/KI
the
Hidden Words of Baha'u'llah
in HTML,
with a FLASH version also. Both at: www.upliftingwords.org/writings/hiddenwords
Buddhism
BuddhaNet
These Buddhist texts may be read online with the Adobe Reader or
variants
thereof. Texts are presently available in English (UK & US
variants),
French, German, Spanish & Japanese. The
texts may
also be downloaded as zipped .pdf files to
read
offline.
www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm
Buddhist
Reading Room
Sutras
& other content for online reading in HTML. Includes
Dharma Stories, lessons, verses, poems.
http://www.buddhistreadingroom.com/
Hundred
Mountain Reading Room
Excerpts
from Buddhist books and articles, plus notes, talks and verses.
http://www.hundredmountain.com/Pages/readingroom_pages/readroom.html
Online
Dharma Resources
Provides access to an extensive collection of Buddhist texts and
information across
the range of Buddhist schools and traditions (Theravada, Mahayana,
Tibetan/Vajrayana, Zen, Chan, Pure Land, Jodo
Shinshu, and Korean
Buddhism).
www.dharmanet.org/learning.htm
Sacred
Texts: Buddhism
In
English,
for reading online. Includes modern (early 20th century)
compilations of
the Buddhist Canon, plus texts of Northern & Southern Buddhist schools,Tibetian
Buddhism and much
else.
www.sacred-texts.com/bud
More
Buddhist e-books and resources for online reading.
http://www.tipitaka.net/tipitaka/
Cao
Dai
Centre
for Studies in Caodaism
(Sydney)
Online full text Cao Dai scriptures & books, articles, images,&
audio-visuals, in Vietnamese, French & English. Includes
information on the history, organization, philosophy and practice of Caodaism. An
Australian archive in
HTML, thanks to Cong-Tam Dao of the University of Sydney.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10190
Christianity
The
Holy Bible (King James version)
for online reading.
www.bartleby.com/br/108.html
The
NET Bible (New English Translation) a
completely new translation of the Bible. Includes
many
thousands of hyperlinked (clickable) translator's notes (which may
include
theological opinion). Online in HTML.
Courtesy of bible.org.
www.bible.org/netbible/index.htm
The
Bible, New International Version Online,
in individual chapters.
UK version:
www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=64#booklist/
US version
www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=31#booklist/
Note usage restrictions as explained at the top of the Biblegateway
webpage.
The
Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version,
in HTML
www.catholicfirst.com/bibledrv.cfm
New
American Bible,
from United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in HTML
www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible
Old
& New Testaments of the Bible formatted for your
mobile device or mobile/cell phone. Old Testament & New Testament
as one
download each. King James version.
www.brothersoft.com/mobile/kjv-old-testament-mobile-bible-4765.html
www.brothersoft.com/mobile/kjv-new-testament-mobile-bible-4827.html
Latin
Vulgate Bible, for Palm
This
I.8MB .prc file
download requires a Palm DOC reader. Find under "L" in the many Bible
versions available free at:
http://spiritualworx.com/skw_template.php?page=PalmSoftware.php&fext=prc/
Old
and New Testament books in groups,
in PilotDoc format, zipped. www.antioch.com.sg/edgar/bibledoc.html
New
Testament TNIV version to search,
browse and read online, in plain text.
www.tniv.info/bible/index.php
Bible
Downloads for Palm OS, Pocket PC,
Smartphone and some Symbian devices
A variety
of Bible versions, plus reader software, available in English, plus
Albanian,
Arabic, Basque, Byzantine & modern Greek, Chinese, Czech, Danish,
Dutch,
Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latin,
Norwegian,
Polish, Romanian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog. Also
other historical versions e.g, Wyclif
Bible. Many other free Christian resources
here, plus
others available to buy.
www.olivetree.com/handheld/free/
The Bible, text
search of New International Version, in 19 languages.
www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NIV
The
Bible, text search of Revised Standard
Version
www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv
The
Bible, text search of New American Standard
Version
www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NASB
Christian
Classics Ethereal Library
Huge collection of
significant Christian works. Especially in
English, but with some Russian & Chinese e-texts,
plus a few in Latin, Greek, French, German, Czech, Italian &
Spanish.
Many In ThML
(Theological
Markup Language, an XML variant), or in HTML. Also as online facsimile,
plain
text, Open eBook, Palm DocBook, or
Microsoft Reader
formats. Some MP3 audio files also. Browse collection by author, title,
subject, language, format or tag. From Calvin
College, Grand
Rapids, Missouri.
www.ccel.org
Christian
Latin
- Online versions of Christian Latin texts from Abelard to Thomas
à
Kempis.
www.thelatinlibrary.com/christian.html
The
Catholic Encyclopedia
(1914 edition), for online reading or consultation. Hyperlinked.
www.newadvent.org/cathen
Some
Catholic devotional works
formatted for Palm OS and MS Word.
www.rosarynmore.com/download.html
Project
Wittenberg
Works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans.
www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
Project
Wittenberg's Lutheran Electronic Archive:
gives priority to documents written by Luther or about Luther.
Documents
by other Lutherans and Lutheran churches or organizations are produced
to a
lesser extent. The majority of the works are in HTML or text format.
www.ctsfw.edu/etext
The
Walther Library also provides links to a
broader range of Protestant and Lutheran works at:
www.ctsfw.edu/library/probono.php
Orthodox
Church
The St. Pachomius
Library, an encyclopædia of Orthodox
Christianity. In HTML.
www.voskrese.info/spl/index.html
Note: For an explanation of the current relationships among the Coptic,
Eastern
Orthodox and Ethiopian churches see: http://mb-soft.com/believe/txn/coptic.htm
Early
Christian Writings:
New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers. In
HTML. Some 150 texts here, a substantial
collection.
www.earlychristianwritings.com
The
Ecole Initiative
- a "Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History," up to the
Reformation. This site is archival in nature. It contains Short Essays,
Long
Essays and a cross-indexed timeline.
www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb
Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints (Mormons) The
Book of Mormon,
online by chapters in HTML. Downloadable version (.pdb file) for Palm & Windows CE devices also
available.
Other Mormon e-texts here too, viz.
Doctrine and
Covenants, Pearl of Great Price, Study Helps.
http://scriptures.lds.org/bm/contents
Gnostic
The Gospel of Thomas
The "Scholars'
Translation" of the Gospel of Thomas, by Stephen Patterson and Marvin
Meyer.
www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/Trans.htm
Gospel
of Thomas commentary
www.gospelthomas.com
The
Gnostic Society Library A
comprehensive collection of Gnostic texts online. Over
a thousandtranslated documents, including
all major
Gnostic writings and anti-Gnostic patristic texts. Also
audio lectures in RealAudio &mp3 formats. All the texts may
be
searched across using the Gnosis Archive Index search
engine.
www.gnosis.org/library.html
Ecclesiastical
calendar conversion. Warning - this gets complicated.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/woolley/calconv.html
Desiderata
-
Meaning, that which is to be desired. Much
concentrated & timeless wisdom here. Click on the image to
read the
words below.
http://artandpoetry.com/art/sherrie/desiderata.html
Epic
of
Gilgamesh
Summary of the fullest version of the ancient
text, written by the oldest-known named human author, Shin-eqi-unninni.
This
version derived from twelve stone tablets in the Akkadian
language found at Nineveh in the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal,
king of
Assyria 669-633 B.C.
www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM
Hinduism
The
Vedas
- claimed
to be mankind's oldest scriptures, and considered by Hindus to be a
direct
revelation of God. Read online in HTML. In 7 parts
and 21
chapters. English translation by Professor Raimon Panikkar.
Click on
the Vedic Experience link.
http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/
Collection of online HTML Hindu e-books and PDFs, many free.
www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/
Bhagavad-Gita.
In audio versions in16 languages,
or as HTML in English
only.
www.bhagavad-gita.org
Dharmic
Scriptures.
This page
at present contains the four Vedas as a zipped Word file for
downloading, plus Vedas
Exerpts, Vedic Samhitas
& Brahmanas Introduction, and
the
Upanishads, as Word files. Plus over 200 Upanishads and some Puranas as pdfs,
with more
planned, and the Puranas in English as a
zipped file.
www.dharmicscriptures.org/scriptures.htm
Upanishads
- The Texts
“Upanishad”
means, “be seated at the feet of the Guru to receive the
teaching.“ Available individually online,
or
downloadable gathered as one PDF file. www.naiveinspirations.com/
Upanishads
- Transliteration Key
www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/upanishad.html
Dvaita
Text Resources
Some
classic Hindu texts as PDF files in Sanskrit, some with Roman script
versions. Some audio lectures as streaming mp3 also.
www.dvaita.net
Hindu
Insights Many
mini-texts
on Hinduism for reading on this award-winning site.
www.hinduism.co.za
Ars
Floreat
A
number of spiritual and sacred texts,
including the Bible, the Koran, Plato and some Hindu scriptures,
presented in
Dutch, from an overall philosophical basis of the Advaita
Vedanta tradition of India. In PDF.
www.arsfloreat.nl
The
Tolerance of Hinduism
by Jagdish R. Singh.
A novel illustrating precepts and
principles of
Hinduism. As a PDF.
www.jagdishraisingh.com
Islam
The
Koran (Qur'an)
The
Qur'an,
in four side-by-side English translations; plus versions in up to
twenty
other languages.
Available by chapters for
online reading.
www.quran.org/quran/quranframe.htm
The
Koran An
electronically scanned version of M. H. Shakir's
English translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by Tahrike
Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in
searchable SGML form.
http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html
The
Koran
in the
original Arabic, downloadable as a full e-reader software program with
support
for various fonts and font sizes, 2D animations, MP3 audio sounds,
search
engine, text color, underline color, tags etc,
as
prepared by Samir Alicehajic of Zagreb,
Croatia.
English and German translations are included in the "Islam 7.02"
version software. Bosnian, Dutch, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese
&
Turkish translations which may be imported into the above software are
also
available. An online HTML English Koran translation, plus Hadith
(sayings of
the Prophet) also feature on this site.
www.yildun.com
Holy
Qur'an Viewer,
version 2.7. Supports Multiple Qur'an Languages,
Remote Recitation, Manuscripts. Size: 4.21 MB, an .exe file.
Platform:
Win95,Win98,WinME,WinNT
4.x,WinXP,Windows2000.
www.filesland.com/companies/DivineIslam/1798-download.html
Hadith
Viewer Free
Multilingual Hadith software as developed by Jamal Al-Nasir.
Full Arabic text of Ahadith agreed upon by
Imam's Bukhari and Muslim is built into
this Hadith Viewer, along
with an English translation. English translation of a collection of
over 1900 Ahadith compiled by Imam Nawawi
also provided. Supports plug-in Hadith collections
in
different languages.
www.2muslims.com/directory/Detailed/225686.shtml
Hadith
(Sayings and Traditions)
A variety of texts
online in HTML, some audio also.
www.al-islam.org/links.asp?CatId=70
Stories
of the Prophets
(as a : 2.65 MB Self Extracting EXE file).
www.filesland.com/companies/DivineIslam/5229-download.html
International
Islamic Digital Library
"An ambitious
project to create a centralized repository of knowledge on Islam and
the Muslim
communities which is authoritative, comprehensible & reliable".
This Malaysian initiative includes books, manuscripts, multimedia,
theses,
articles & conference papers. Users need to register.
www.iidl.net
Islam
Denounces Terrorism,
Terrorism: The Ritual of the Devil, and
other
free titles available as online e-books in HTML or download as .pdf files.
www.islamdenouncesterrorism.com/
Harun
Yahya
Islamic
books online in HTML, from noted Turkish author Harun
Yahya. Many titles available in
English here. Other languages accessible
from the
site. www.harunyahya.com/m_book_index.php
Shi'ite
Encyclopedia
(Revised 2001 edition). View online in HTML. Or download chapter by
chapter in Text or MS Word, or the entire encyclopedia as a zipped file.
www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia
The
Tragedy of Al-Zahra' by
Ayatollah`Allama Sayyid
Ja'far Murtada al-`Amili,
translated from the Arabic by Yasin
T. al-Jibouri (Al-Zahra' refers to Fatima,
only
daughter of the prophet Muhammed, who
became the wife
of the Imam Ali). Online in HTML.
http://almujtaba.com/books/tragedy/
Islamic
e-books
(currently seven, more are planned) are offered here in English for
downloading in PDF format. From the "Islamic
Occasions
Network".
www.ezsoftech.com/islamic/download.asp
Sufism,
the Way of the Heart
"The Ways to God are as numerous as the breaths of humankind." -Sufi
Tradition.
Sufiportal.
Sufi e-books in German and
English.
http://sufiportal.de/download.php?s=list&kid=14
Selections
from the Diwan of Shaykh
Muhammad ibn al-Habib
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ABewley/diwan.html
The Hikam of Ibn
'Ata'llah
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ABewley/hikam.html
Jainism
The
Jaina Sutras - Akaranga Sutra and
Kalpa Sutra, plus a
variety of other Jain texts.
Online in plain text and HTML.
www.sacred-texts.com/jai/index.htm
Judaism
Note:
The Hebrew
Bible or Tanakh is roughly
equivalent to the
Christian Old Testament, and has three parts, Torah, Nevi'im
& Ketuvim. The Torah, in the
narrow sense
(the Written Torah) is the Pentateuch, the first five books of the
Bible. The Nevi'im are the Prophets -
Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets.
The Ketuvim is the
Writings, including Psalms and
Proverbs, Esther and Ecclesiastes, Daniel, Chronicles, Ruth, and the
love
poetry of Song of Songs. If you take the T (from Torah), the N (from Nevi'im) and the K (from Ketuvim),
and put them together in one word, you have TNK. Add some vowels and it
becomes
the Tanakh.Text versions of the Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim
are
available in English with some useful further information at:
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Tanakh.html
Two
other
English translations, including a useful scholarly version (Kaplan)
with
hyperlinked translator's notes.
Hebrew and
Aramaic versions should be available from this site also, www.breslov.com/bible/
The
Hebrew
Bible (Tanakh) in four HTML language
editions -
Hebrew, Aramaic, English and parallel Hebrew and English.
Zipped version available for
download.
Book-by-book printer-friendly version and MP3 recordings of the books
of the
Hebrew Bible also provided, plus The JPS Bible for the Palm Pilot. A
Torah
encyclopedia as well, in a single ZIP in English, and other Torah
resources,
all from:
www.mechon-mamre.org
Jewish
Torah
Audio.
Hundreds of
hours of commentary, stories, poetry etc,
all in
RealAudio or downloadable audio format, plus some text. Describes
itself as "The first world-wide Jewish audio since Mount Sinai".
www.613.org
Divrei
Torah -- Commentaries.
Many sources online -
provides links to a huge variety of divrei
torah.
www.shamash.org/tanach/dvar.shtml#shamash
Seforim
e-books
Hundreds
of seforim
(Hebrew books by rabbis) as Adobe .pdfs.
www.hebrewbooks.org
SeforimOnline.org
also distribute
old and out of print Hebrew books in PDf
for free. As
well there are some audio shiurim as mp3
files.
http://
www.seforimonline.org
Myths
& Legends
Encyclopedia
Mythica
www.pantheon.org
Proverbs
One
Proverb
A collection of illuminating proverbs and sayings from around the
world,
available in two ways.
Firstly, provides
random proverbs and sayings online in HTML. Also as free e-books for
Palm eReader,MobiPocket
and iSilo readers, and (in beta) for iPods.
http://oneproverb.net/frame1.html
http://oneproverb.net/opPDAbook.HTML
Sprituality
(various)
Advaita
(Non-duality)
Spiritual e-books Including
Nothing Personal, Living from the Heart,
Beyond No Self'
and Gifts with No Giver. Available as PDFs
for
download, or elsewhere on the site to read online in HTML format.
http://endless-satsang.com/ebooks.htm
Ishaya
Tradition Offers
5 e-books referring to the Ascension meditation
technique of this group, claiming spiritual lineage from the Apostle
John.
As PDF files for download.
www.theishayatradition.org/books/
Pantheism
The
religion of nature. Basic beliefs and Belief
statement.
www.pantheism.net/beliefs.htm
Religion
of Expressionism (Chiropractic)
A 5.27Mb PDF download
requiring the Adobe
Reader.
www.TriuneOfLife.org
Science
and Health with the Key to the
Scriptures
by Mary Baker Eddy, to read online in HTML
www.spirituality.com/dt/toc_SH.jhtml
Spiritwatch
Around
a dozen free e-books available (link at
top) covering a range of New Age, Psychic and Spiritual subjects and
life
issues. Reincarnation and karma are major themes. Online
in
HTML.
www.spiritwatch.com/
Summum
Bonum The
return
of Amen Ra. Online in HTML, or downloadable
as a
self-extracting .exe file (instructions on site) for Windows,
Macintosh, Palm
&Pocket PC. www.summum.us/philosophy/book.shtml
Theosophical
texts online
A large collection in plain text, including books by Blavatsky, Judge, Tingley, Purucker,
and others;
introductory manuals on theosophy and material on the world's sacred
traditions.
www.theosociety.org/pasadena/tup-onl.htm
The
Milk Is White A
synthesis of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and the author's own
insights. This book is a very large file (almost 3 MB in Word, 1.7 MB
in PDF),
so if you don't have broadband patience is required - one of the
virtues
extolled here. In Microsoft Word format and PDF; may be opened while
online or
saved to your hard disk.
www.themilkiswhite.com
Shinto
The
Kojiki (excerpts), the Nihongi (excerpts),
the Yengishiki (Shinto Rituals). PlusThe Book of Tea
& other texts.
www.sacred-texts.com/shi/
Sikhism
Shri Guru Granth Sahib in
text form, the thirty one ragas.
www.sacred-texts.com/skh/granth/index.htm
Select
writings - IN HTML, English with
Sanskrit.
www.sikhs.org/transl.htm
Taoism
The
Tao Te Ching online, in English. Plus the
Chuang-tzu, I Ching
and
other works. Further links to a wide
variety of Taoist
texts and commentaries.
http://www.vl-site.org/taoism/index.html
Zen/Western
Zen
Zen
Buddhism
A treasury
of Zen texts. In html or plain text.
www.sacred-texts.com/bud/zen/index.htm
Zen
Guide
Koans, stories &
collected words online. Pithy and provocative.
In plain text.
www.zenguide.com/zenmedia/index.cfm
The
Tao Of Programming
& much else
Modern
internationalism -from Russia with love,
in English, some classic & Modern Zen texts.
http://klein.zen.ru/English
Zen
Fun
Sparkling
haiku
casting those horror messages from your PC's operating system into a
more
spiritual plane of thought.
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/zen_fun.html
Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian
Archives.
Provide the complete text of the Avesta,
the most ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism, as
well as many Pahlavi scriptures. It also includes information about the
Avestan language, and
other useful information for students
of Zoroastrian religion.
www.avesta.org/avesta.html
The
Internet Sacred Text Archive
at:
www.sacred-texts.com/
Free
audio books
Albalearning.com
Spanish language audiobooks, free, for
personal use
only. The text is available also. As mp3s for
download, or
play online. Says one fan: Alba tiene
una voz
de angel, es muy
facil
entenderla.
www.albalearning.com/
ALK Libri
Some classic, mostly Western European works, read in Italian. You may
listen online free (more suitable for broadband). In
mp3 or ogg vorbis
format. http://digilander.libero.it/kyme/audiolibri/index.htm
Audiobooks
for free
Many classics of literature available, in 25 categories (including
Adventure,
Crime Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Westerns,
Thrillers,
Martial Arts, Spy Stories, Historical & Humour).
Also a few non-fiction items.
All as mp3 files. However only files playing at 8
Kb/sec files are free. Requires
registration, & the supply of some personal
information.
http://
www.audiobooksforfree.com
Japanese
Classical Literature at Bedtime
From The Cat and the Mouse
to the Pillow Book,
Japanese language audiobooks as mp3 files, most with a Creative Commons
licence. From a modest and helpful soul.
Some have links to the e-text.
http://eloise.cocolog-nifty.com/rodoku/
LibriVox
Fiction, non-fiction, poetry & dramatic works are available here as
mp3's
and ogg vorbis
files.* These are free audiobooks from the
public domain, and you'll
find many of your old favourites here.
Volunteers are
also welcome to record individual book chapters or whole books. A constantly growing mega-site (1,500 books available at
last
check).
http://librivox.org/
Litterature
Audio (French
language) More
than 170 authors and over 300 works represented here in mp3, from the
cream of
French literature. Some Greek & Latin texts
too, and more
modern Western classics from Shakespeare to the brothers Grimm. C'est magnifique!
www.litteratureaudio.com/
Read
Listening (
=
leerescuchando)
Another new Spanish language site (mid-2008) offers many popular
classics in
audio form, todo en formato
mp3 y completamente gratis (all in mp3
format and
completely free). Classics, children's classics,
poetry,
history, unpublished works and more. Unless otherwise specified,
the
content is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.
www.leerescuchando.com/
Ulitka
A large collection of works by both Russian and European authors, read
in
Russian. In mp3. http://audiobooks.ulitka.com/
Vorleser
Around 550 German language
audiobooks in mp3, from
around 150 authors. Mostly German and European literature, with text
links
often included. For download at CD quality.
Das ist gut!
www.vorleser.net/ * Ogg Vorbis format files are open source audio of a
higher
fidelity than mp3.
