Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
Aesops Fables Contains 650+ stories in http://www.aesopfables.com/ HTML with morals listed.
American Memory historical documents from the http://memory.loc.gov/ Library of Congress
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sherlockian Holmpage from the University of Waterloo Free download: e-text files Also includes pictures, sound, www.sherlockian.net games E-text files Individual titles can be downloaded Audible.com US$19.95 per month allows www.audible.com download of 2 audio books per month Newspaper subscriptions also available Audio Books For Free http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp?gg=2 Some free and some not
includes an animated Awesome Talking Library character, providing synchronized highlighting so http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Awesome_Talking_Library.html that children can follow along even more easily Free download: e-text for Bartleby.com students www.bartleby.com An internet publisher of literature, reference and verse free stories and related Beantime Stories games, developed by a HeadStart teacher and her http://www.meddybemps.com/5.1.html husband. The pictures a small and busy visually. English or Japanese with Beatrix Potter Stories small pictures that don’t fill up http://wiredforbooks.org/kids.htm the page. High quality audio files are also available. Free download: e-text files Bibliomania Study guides and free e-text www.bibliomania.com Contains fiction, non-fiction and poetry Only a little over a dozen Big Books books offered here with http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/BigBooks/index.htm pictures. They seem to be of an English dialect using the word “Mum” instead of “Mom.”
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
E-text files Individuals with qualifying Bookshare.org disabilities who live outside www.bookshare.org the United States can purchase a subscription allowing access portions of the Bookshare.org collection Books that can be searched Browser Books by level or by subject. It will http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/browserbooks/index.htm not read each page by sentence, but instead one word at a time. CAST UDL Book Builder There is a shared book library and a template to make your http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ own books.
CBeeBies Stories Cute children’s books from http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/stories/ BBC so they have an English accent Children’s Storybooks Online Several illustrated stories to http://www.magickeys.com/books/ view. Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org/ Free Classic Christian books
Cowboy Poetry Bar D-Ranch’s Cowboy news, http://www.cowboypoetry.com/ poetry and music
The Cranky Librarian Search for public domain http://crankylibrarian.com/ books and art works online
Unabridged classic Deklin's Domain audiobooks on CD in MP3 format www.decklinsdomain.com/Books/WTstore.htm Titles for children and adults US$9.95 per disk plus p&h
Digital Book Index Over 80,000 e-books, some http://www.digitalbookindex.com/about.htm for sale. You must sign in first time Search tool to help to find E-Book Finder details of book titles published in e-text format www.ebooklocator.com 10,000 titles and 400 publishers E-text for thousands of public Electronic Text Centre domain titles available in three http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ formats: e-text, palm pilot and web version
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
English Server Drama Collection collection of both long and short English drama plays and http://drama.eserver.org/ criticism
E-Server Fiction Collection Collection of online fiction http://fiction.eserver.org/ texts
Famous Poets and Poems Browse among 550 popular http://www.famouspoetsandpoems.com/ poets and 22,000 poems
Folklore and Mythology E-texts browse everything from popular fairytales to Russian http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html ghost stories
Free download: MP3 files Will read aloud or can cut and paste into another document Free-books.org Print is formatted as ewriting - www.free-books.org/ a new line beginning after punctuation. Also has thousands of free photos from around the world. Genie Books in PowerPoint Free decodable books for beginner readers all in http://www.auburn.edu/~murrag1/bookindex.html PowerPoint.
Goggle Book Search one of the largest collaborative http://books.google.com/ digitization projects
Free download: e-text files Great Books Index Works by many great writers http://books.mirror.org/gb.home.html including Shakespeare, Darwin, Twain, Tolstoy, Virgil
Great Literature Online Online versions of classic http://www.classicauthors.net/ literary works.
One of the largest 'collections iBiblio of collections' on the Internet. Free- including software, http://www.ibiblio.org/ music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies
The Institute for Learning Technologies Classic books for upper-level http://www.ilt.columbia.edu/publications/digitext.html reading
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
Free download e-text files for International Children's Digital Library children aged 3-13 years www.icdlbooks.org Many titles in more than 15 languages
Internet Archive Archived lists of books and http://www.archive.org/index.php more.
Internet Classic Archive Free download: e-text files Classical literature by a variety http://classics.mit.edu/ of authors
Internet Public Library This has links to many public library resources with free www.ipl.org downloads of e-text files
Intersect Digital Library Catalog free model accessible design of seven books plus historical http://intersect.uoregon.edu/ documents
Just Free Books A search engine for over 450 http://www.justfreebooks.info/ websites that offer free books
Lil Fingers Storybooks Stories and activities for http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html learning how to read.
Literactive Free site but you must register http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp to download the books.
Manybooks E-text formatted for reading via Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, http://www.manybooks.net/ Rocketbook or PDA
Mighty Books Free children’s books, games, http://www.mightybook.com/ and songs.
NYC Adapted Books Books from NYC from different formats like, IntelliTools, http://schools.nycenet.edu/D75/literacy/adaptedbooks/catalog_by_software.htm PowerPoint, Writing with Symbols, and Word.
Online Book Page Over 30,000 e-text books for http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ free
Overdrive Digital Media Locator This is a search engine to find http://search.overdrive.com/ free books.
Premier Assistive Technology E-Library Many categories of easy to http://search.overdrive.com/ download books.
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
Stories created by the Priory Woods teachers form Priory woods, http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/resources/books.htm which is in England, so they have a strong accent when reading the book. Project Gutenberg Free download: e-text files Large number of public www.promo.net/pg/ domain titles
ReadPrint Thousands of free e-text http://www.readprint.com/
Books made mostly from Region Two’s Digital Lending Library PowerPoint. They also have instructions on how to make http://www.region2library.org/ppa.htm your own PowerPoint talking books along with a template already made. includes over 2,000 English Representative Poetry Online poems by 310 poets from the http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm early medieval period to the beginning of the twentieth century." Free download: e-text ReadPrint Large number of public domain titles www.readprint.com Listed by author or search by title
RIF Reading Planet Fun children’s books with http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx animation and songs.
Seedlings Braille Books Offers books in Braille and you can sign up for one free Braille http://www.seedlings.org/ book. Set-BC Accessible Books Free books. Some made with PowerPoint, Boardmaker, http://www.setbc.org/setbc/accessiblebooks/freebooksforyou.html Word, clicker, IntelliTools, and/or Braille.
Short Stories A growing collection of classic http://www.short-stories.co.uk/ and newly-written short stories made available on the Web Singing to Me Nursery Rhymes sang and http://www.singingtome.com/content/index.html written to follow along.
Sonic Central an archive of English sonnets, http://www.sonnets.org/ commentary, pictures, and relevant web links
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
Lots of great animated stories Starfall and games and activities for http://www.starfall.com/ teaching reading. Many school districts use this site as well.
Storyline Online Popular children’s books read http://www.storylineonline.net/ by famous actors StoryNory Audio Books with words-Not http://storynory.com/ great backgrounds
Storyplace Children’s stories and http://www.storyplace.org/eel/other.asp activities to print out.
Talking Book Library PowerPoint books http://www.talkingbooklibrary.net/Matrix.htm
Talking Dictionary for Blind Download a free talking http://www.download3000.com/download-Talking_Dictionary-count-reg-6527.html dictionary and a thesaurus
Tar Heel Reader Many books created by http://tarheelreader.org/category/books/ teachers and parents to share. Virtual Reader Library Virtual books you can http://www.technotopia.com/books/ bookmark and return to later
Texas School for the Blind Free download: e-braille books and materials www.tsbvi.edu/braille/braillebooks.htm Password needed offers subscribers access Tumblebooks animated books, games, quizzes. Some libraries pay a http://www.tumblebooks.com fee and you can access it for free through them. over 2100 free e-books, including the Bible, can browse by subject, including a Univ of VA e-Book Library category for children’s literature. There is a Web version, a Microsoft version and a Palm reader version to put on your Palm Wiki Books Free educational textbooks http://www.wikibooks.org/
World Wide School Library Library contains over 2000 http://www.worldwideschool.org/ books with comments
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Electronic Book Resource List Created by Dinell Stuckey
Free download: e-braille books The Electronic Braille Book Library 1,000 titles listed by author and title in braille format - can www.braille.org/braille_books/ be embossed or read via refreshable braille display eg BrailleNote
The EText Archives Free download: e-text files www.etext.org/ Politics, fiction, religion, poetry
The Internet Public Library Free download: e-text files www.ipl.org Public library resources
The On-line Books Page Free download: e-text files Collection of 30,000 listed by http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ title, author and subject UDL Book Builder http://bookbuilder.cast.org/explore.php Free downloads of books also made by teachers and parents http://bookbuilder.cast.org/library.php
Book Summaries, Notes and Study Guides
• Spark Notes (overview, character list, chapter summaries, study questions, and quizzes on hundreds of books, including MP3 version of the notes) http://www.sparknotes.com
• Pink Monkey (400 books with background, analysis, chapter summaries, and study questions) Note: adjust browser window to eliminate distracting animations. http://www.pinkmonkey.com
• Free Literature Study Guides. http://www.bookrags.com/browse/studyguides/
• Free Book summaries. http://www.bookwolf.com/
Text to Speech Software ReadPlease www.readplease.com starts at $49.95 Natural Voice Reader www.naturalreaders.com starts at $49.50. Nonvisual Desktop Access-NVDA (free) http://www.nvda-project.org/ WordTalk http://wordtalk.org.uk/ Reading Made Easy http://www.readingmadeez.com/trial/
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