http://www.lancasterlibraries.org/
This page is a resource for the December 2008 Lancaster County Apple Corps meeting. It is a sampling of how to obtain books online.
http://www.lancasterlibraries.org/
You'll need a library card to download books from the Library System of Lancaster County. They have many online resources listed on the left side of that page. The browse your digital library online link is the one you need to get the online books. There are other resources there including an online book club (a few chapters a week), TumbleBooks (online, animated, and audio books for kids), homework help, Morningstar Investment Research Center, and various references. Some of these require your library card number for access.
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The OverDrive Media Console software is used by many library systems
around the country and world. The Mac version handles only MP3 books.
[ http://www.overdrive.com/software/omc/ ] |
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Google Book Search has books you can read online. Some you can download.
Some are just partial previews. But many of these are public domain and
freely downloadable.
After you search, change the pop-up from
limited preview and full view to full view to see books
available in their entirety.
Many of these can be downloaded as PDF files for reading off-line.
But online, many of the pages have links and an easier searching mechanism.
It's great for finding a section you've heard in an audio-book or discussion.
About this book has additional references and information.
[ http://books.google.com/books ] |
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LibriVox provides free public domain audiobooks in a variety of formats.
[ http://librivox.org/ ] |
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The Internet Archive has a variety of free information including text, audio,
and movies.
[ http://www.archive.org/ ] |
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Project Gutenberg is a long-term project begun in 1971.
The books are in plain ASCII text.
[ http://www.gutenberg.org/ ] |
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Wikisource contains free content in the public domain -
poetry,
sheet music, books, and audio recordings.
You generally won't find entire audiobooks here although there are a few.
Wikibooks are educational materials.
[ http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page ] [ http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page ] |
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Safari Books Online provides a shelf of technical books for computing
professionals for a monthly fee. I include it here as an example.
It's also a place to browse contents before purchasing.
[ http://my.safaribooksonline.com/ ] |