Sources of digital books and other resources

Sources of digital books and other resources shared by Amy Lott
 
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Text
http://infomotions.com/alex
"[A] collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Its purpose is to help facilitate a person's liberal arts education."

American Library Association's "Great Websites for Kids"
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm
A site overflowing with links to rated and age-assessed Web sites for young people in a wide variety of categories, including "Animals," "The Arts," and "History and Biography."

Bibliomania
http://www.bibliomania.com/bibliomania-static/index.html
"Bibliomania has thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays all of which are absolutely free. You can read the world's greatest fiction by authors such as Dickens and Joyce, Sherlock Holmes mysteries, all Shakespeare's plays, or just dip into some short stories by writers such as Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe."

Bookshare
http://www.bookshare.org
"Bookshare's goal is to make the world of print accessible to people with disabilities. With a dynamic leadership team, dedicated Members and capable partners, Bookshare(TM) is making this goal a reality."

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
http://www.loc.gov/nls/
"Through a national network of cooperating libraries, NLS administers a free library program of braille and audio materials circulated to eligible borrowers in the United States by postage-free mail."

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
An online platform offered through the University of Pennsylvania. Search for some 35,000 books on the Internet by author, title, or theme (e.g., "Banned Books"). Links load to other sites around the Web.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
"[T]he Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)."

Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic
http://www.learningally.org/
"Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic(R) (RFB&D), a national nonprofit, volunteer organization, has been the leading accessible audiobook library for students with disabilities such as visual impairment or dyslexia that make reading standard print difficult or impossible for the last 60 years."