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India International Centre Library WEB SITES FOR ELECTRONIC BOOKS ON THE KINDLE AND AUDIO BOOKS In accordance with the decision of the Library Committee meeting held on 13th May 2011, placed herewith important sites which has large number of audio and Kindle based e-text. Members are requested to go through the sites and suggest the books which can be downloaded to be read using Kindle and can be used as audio books. Project Gutenberg Books on Kindle : Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free eBooks to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Feedbooks on Kindle : Feedbooks is a cloud publishing and distribution service, connected to a large ecosystem of reading systems and social networks. Every month, Feedbooks distributes millions of books to an increasingly growing community of readers. Books from Amazon on Kindle : 7000 books containing fiction and non-fiction; classical and non- classical on MOBI Format which can be read on Kindle from Amazon. Top 100 Books on Kindle from United States: Top 100 books from US on Kindle from Amazon. Kindle Books from Manybooks: has large number of books that can be read on Kindle. Few Books on Google ebookstore : Few Books on Google ebookstore. The Open Library: The Free Books can be searched by Author, Title or by Subjects. Many of the books are available in MOBI Format that can be read on Kindle. The Internet Archive: contains audio and text documents which can be accessed and used on Kindle. Project Gutenberg Audio Books: Large number of audio books. Audio Books from LibriVox: It is a site with audio books that can be downloaded and can listened using popular audio media formats. Audio Books from Learn Out Loud: Learning Out Loud site we will help to discover new content and ways to incorporate audio learning into your daily life. Check out all of the areas of site including catalog (with over 25,000 audio and video titles), articles and publisher and author resource pages. LearnOutLoud.com is based in Santa Monica, California, an area of the country known for horrendous commute times. Free Classical Audio Books: FreeClassicAudioBooks.com : Digital Narration for the 21st Century Open Culture Free audio Books : Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. .

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