Hi Debbie, Here's a message that Allison sent out a couple of months ago. It had some good sites to visit.
Thanks, Bob ---- your message read ----- From: Allison Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Braillenote] Free Book sites and Not so Free Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:44:51 -0400 >>>Selected Sources for Electronic Texts >>>Issued 2003 >>>This factsheet presents a selected list of sources for electronic texts. >>>The online files are in a variety of formats ranging from plain text to >>>digital >>>audio and digital braille. Most can be downloaded and read offline. >>>Electronic braille materials can also be embossed. Sites vary with >regards >>>to accessibility >>>and questions should be directed to the sites' webmasters. The web site >>>address is given for each entry and telephone numbers and e-mail >addresses are >>>provided, when known, for further information. >>>Accessible Book Collection >>>(703) 631-1585 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.accessiblebookcollection.org/default.htm >>>Provides high-interest low-reading level digital text in HTML to >>>individuals with a documented disability that prevents reading standard >>>print. Also serves >>>government and nonprofit schools and rehabilitation centers. Has $49.95 >>>annual subscription fee. >>>Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts >>>(574) 246-0639 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.infomotions.com/alex/ >>>Has a collection of free public domain documents from American >literature, >>>English literature, and Western philosophy. Books are in PDF and text >formats. >>>Audible.com >>>888-283-5051 or 888-429-5575 >>>www.audible.com/adbl/store/welcome.jsp >>>Includes forty-five hundred audiobooks and fourteen thousand other audio >>>programs in a broad range of subjects that can be downloaded to a >computer. >>>Readers >>>can listen immediately, transfer files to an audio player, or burn them >>>onto a CD. Items are spoken-word audio in a proprietary audible.com >format. >>>Cost: >>>$14.95-$19.95 per month. >>>Bartleby.com >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.bartleby.com >>>Publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference books >free >>>of charge. Includes books of quotations, the 1914 Oxford edition of the >>>Complete >>>Works of William Shakespeare, the Columbia Gazetteer, Gray's Anatomy, and >>>Strunk's Elements of Style. Books are offered in various proprietary >e-book >>>formats. >>>Bibliomania.com Ltd >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.bibliomania.com/ >>>Offers free online literature of classic fiction, drama, poetry, and >short >>>stories and contemporary articles and interviews. Most books are in HTML >>>format. >>>Bookshare.org >>>(650) 475-5440 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.bookshare.org/web/Welcome.html >>>Provides digital books in a broad range of subjects to United States >>>residents who have a visual or other print disability. Requires >completion >>>of an online >>>form, proof of disability, and payment of $25 sign-up fee and $50 annual >>>subscription. Books are in text format and contracted braille. Most text >files >>>are presented with XML markup and the site includes tools for reading >these >>>files. >>>Braille Book Files >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm >>>Has books at all grade levels that are submitted by teachers and >>>transcribers; the site is maintained by the Texas School for the Blind >and >>>Visually Impaired. >>>Access is password-protected and limited to individuals who have a visual >>>or other print disability and to members of a nonprofit organization or >>>governmental >>>agency that provides specialized services to such individuals. Books are >in >>>MegaDots, Duxbury, and ASCII format. >>>ClassicReader.com >>>www.classicreader.com/ >>>Contains free literature for which copyright protection has expired. >>>Presents these works in eight categories: fiction, nonfiction, drama, >>>children, poetry, >>>Shakespeare, short stories, and classical. All books are in HTML; >includes >>>a plain-text format that eliminates most graphics. >>>Electronic Text Center >>>(434) 924-3230 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>etext.lib.virginia.edu/ >>>Combines a free online archive of tens of thousands of SGML- and >>>XML-encoded electronic texts and images in the humanities with a service >at >>>the University >>>of Virginia Library that offers hardware and software suitable for the >>>creation and analysis of text. Most material is in SGML or XML; site >>>includes tools >>>for reading these file types. >>>Fictionwise >>>(973) 701-6771 >>>www.fictionwise.com/ >>>Publishes (i.e., owns the electronic rights to certain eBooks) and >>>distributes (sells eBooks from other ePublishers) fiction and nonfiction >in >>>various eBook >>>formats. Costs range from 49 cents for short stories to $4.99 and up for >>>lengthy works. Books are in a variety of proprietary e-book formats. >>>4Literature >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.4literature.net/ >>>Has more than two thousand books, stories, poems, plays, and religious >and >>>historical documents in HTML format. Readers can read online at no charge >or >>>can purchase the entire collection on CD-ROM for $19.99. >>>International Electronic Braille Book Library >>>(410) 659-9314 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.braille.org/braille_books/ >>>Contains over one thousand titles of electronic braille books, including >>>classics and publications of the National Federation of the Blind. Files, >>>which >>>are in contracted braille ASCII format, may be read online or downloaded >>>for viewing offline or embossing. >>>Internet Public Library (IPL) Books Collection >>>(734) 764-4386 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>ipl.si.umich.edu/div/books/ >>>Includes over twenty thousand online books, stories, essays, poems, >>>articles, dramas, letters, and speeches that are freely available online. >>>Material is >>>in text and HTML format. >>>netLibrary, a division of Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) >>>800-413-4557 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.netlibrary.com/ >>>Offers more than thirty-seven thousand eBook titles in subjects such as >>>arts, business, history, literature, religion, science, and technology to >>>academic, >>>public, and corporate libraries that purchase a collection of titles. >>>Patrons must create an account with an affiliated library in order to >>>access the >>>collection. Books are in a proprietary e-book format. >>>The Online Books Page >>>(215) 573-0758 or (215) 898-7091 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ >>>Includes more than nineteen thousand English works that are available >>>online at no charge. Has a listing of foreign language and literature >>>resources and >>>an archive of serials. Books are in HTML. >>>Page by Page Books >>>www.pagebypagebooks.com/ >>>Has hundreds of free classic books that are in the public domain, >including >>>United States historical documents and presidential inaugural addresses. >Books >>>can be read online one page at a time. >>>Project Gutenberg >>>www.promo.net/pg/ or <www.gutenberg.net/> >Has three types of free > texts: light literature such as Peter Pan, >serious >>>literature such as the Bible and works of Shakespeare, and reference >works >>>such >>>as Roget's Thesaurus and almanacs. Most books are in text or HTML format; >a >>>few require proprietary e-book reading software. >>>Questia >>>(713) 358-2600 >>>www.questia.com/ >>>Has a collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and >social >>>sciences selected by professional collection development librarians. Uses >>>dynamic >>>HTML and Javascript. Offers monthly ($24.95), quarterly ($49.95), and >>>annual ($129.95) subscription plans. >>>Tiflolibros: E-Books for the Blind >>>www.tiflolibros.com.ar >>>Has more than five thousand digital books in Spanish that registered >>>members can download using their personal password. Includes a small but >>>growing number >>>of books in English, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese. >>>Web-Braille >>>800-424-8567 >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>www.loc.gov/nls/braille >>>Provides braille magazines produced by the National Library Service for >the >>>Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), press-braille books produced by >NLS >>>since 1992, and braille music scores. Access is password-protected and >>>limited to NLS patrons (residents of the United States or American >citizens >>>living >>>abroad who have a visual or other print disability) and eligible >>>institutions. Files, which are in contracted braille ASCII format, may be >>>read online >>>or downloaded for viewing offline or embossing. >>>Selected List of Additional Resources >>>Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web >>>www.digital-librarian.com/electronic.html >>>Maintained by Margaret Vail Anderson, a librarian in Cortland, New York. >>>Directory of Electronic Text Centers, Rutgers University >>>harvest.rutgers.edu/ceth/etext_directory/ >>>Has links to electronic text centers in the United States, Canada, and >>>Australia. >>>E-Digital Books, LLC >>>www.edigitalbooks.com/ >>>Provides a clearinghouse for writers to place their electronic literature >>>online. Readers can download a book to a computer hard drive or obtain on >>>CD-ROM; >>>price varies by size of the file. >>>Electronic Text Collections >>>history.hanover.edu/etexts.html >>>Has links to historical and literary sources from different time periods >in >>>Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. >>>Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature >>>www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html >>>Lists Internet sources for literary texts in western European languages >>>other than English. >>>Electronic Texts >>>www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/electronic/electext.html >>>Has links to general collections; classics and history; constitutions, >>>laws, and treaties; economics; literature, drama, and poetry; mythology >and >>>folklore; >>>philosophy; and religion. >>>Electronic Texts and Documents, University of Washington >>>www.lib.washington.edu/subject/humanities/dr/eltxt.html >>>Has links to a variety of topics, such as country studies, the Irish >>>famine, Mark Twain, the Vatican files, and World War I. >>>Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan >>>www.hti.umich.edu/ >>>Includes the American Verse Project, different versions of the Bible, and >>>The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (hosted for the Abraham Lincoln >>>Association). >>>LETRS: Library Electronic Text Resource Service >>>www.letrs.indiana.edu/ >>>Provides humanities-related electronic texts via the Internet and in the >>>LETRS Humanities Computing Lab, Indiana University. >>>Library of Congress Full-Text Resources >>>www.loc.gov/rr/tools.html#fulltext >>>Includes American Memory: Historical Collections that consists of primary >>>source materials relating to American culture and history; Country >Studies >>>with >>>the full text of handbooks on ninety-one countries; and Meeting of >>>Frontiers, presented in both English and Russian, that tells the story of >>>the exploration >>>and settlement of the American West and of the Russian Far East and >Siberia. >>>Refdesk.com >>>www.refdesk.com/ >>>Includes links to electronic texts, virtual encyclopedias, virtual >>>newspapers, and fast facts such as almanacs, quotations, and thesauri. >>>Selected Bibliography >>>Dresner, Anna. >>>Finding e-books on the Internet. >>>Boston, MA: National Braille Press, 2002. $14. >>>Available in large print and braille. (88 St. Stephen Street, 02115). >>>Facts: Web-Braille. >>>Washington: Library of Congress, National Library Service for the Blind >and >>>Physically Handicapped, 2003. 2p. Free. >>><www.loc.gov/nls/reference/factsheets/webbraille.html>. Allison ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
