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Revised: May  2008

Readers Advisory

On-Line Books

Bartleby.com - This site offers encyclopedias, dictionary, classic fiction, nonfiction and verse for free.

Bibliomania - Read classic fiction, drama, poetry, and short stories online for free. Also includes study guides.

Classic Authors - Full text of selected books of chosen authors.

iBiblio - "Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ..freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies.

LibriVox -  volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net. Our goal is to make all public domain books available as free audio books.

Librarian Chick's Free Book Search - Search for free audio, text books & eBooks.

New York Times First Chapters - Each week the NY Times  posts the first chapter to new fiction and non-fiction on its website. Each book links to the NY Times' review and a section on authors and a discussion forum are also included. Free registration is required.

The On-Line Books Page - University of Pennsylvania's offering of over 11,000 free on-line books.

Page by Page Books - Hundreds of classic books available to read online for free. Search by author or by title.

Project Gutenberg - Classic text freely available. Download text as .txt or .zip files.

Online Book Clubs

            African American Literature Book Club Discussion Boards

            Barnes & Noble Book Clubs - register for book discussions

  Oprah's Book Club

  SeniorNet's Book Clubs - The internet's oldest online book discussion site. Started in 1996 for book lovers around the world.

                    
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