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Project Gutenberg offers more than 33,000 high-quality electronic books. They are freely available in the United States because they are in the public domain - i.e. because their copyright has expired. Books can be downloaded in ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. |
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Google Books provides access to the full text of thousands of free electronic books. It also includes short previews of titles that are not available full-text, and links to online bookstores where you can buy a book that is not freely available. Google Books includes magazines as well. A subject browse is a nice feature. |
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HathiTrust allows you to create your own collections or browse collections created by others. Contains more than 2 million public domain volumes (books, periodicals, etc.). Books must be read online - no downloads available. |
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Bookyards contains the full text of more than 17,000 books (as well as music and videos). Titles can be downloaded in PDF format only. The "tell a friend" features allows you to send information about a book to a specified email address. |
