Online Book Collections
Joseph F. Smith Library
Brigham Young University - Hawaii
The following list of websites represent prominent collections of books in electronic format. Because of the size of the collections in each database, there will be some duplication of titles. However, it is best to search through as many of the links as possible to find the title you might be looking for.
4Literature
Has more than 2,000 books, stories, poems, plays, and religious and historical documents.
American Council of Learned Societies History E-book Project Contains over 500 books of high quality in the field of history. Approximately 250 new titles added annually.
Books On-line@
A Yahoo web directory of electronic literature
BYU-Hawaii eBooks
NetLibrary and Ebrary
A collection of eBooks available to BYU-Hawaii from netLibrary. Search by title, author, keyword, full text, or publisher.
Early English Books Online (EEBO) 125,000 titles published between 1475-1700.
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
This page lists Internet sources for literary texts in the western European languages other than English. Translations are mentioned only when they are included in collections of original language texts, or when they are themselves of interest.
Godey's Lady's Book Online
Godey's Lady's Book was one of the most popular lady's books of the 19th century. Each issue contained poetry, beautiful engraving and articles by some of the most well known authors in America.
Great Books and Classics
Here you will find links to both on-line texts of these works, and printed texts for sale (the latter via Amazon.com), as well as links to other Great Books resources.
Great Books Index
An Index to Online Great Books in English Translation
IPL Online Texts Collection
The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 14,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification.
Library of American Civilization
A list of free online texts that are included in the Library of American Civilization. Maintained by the library at the University of Pennsylvania.
Making of America
Making of America (MoA) is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints.
Manybooks.net
E-texts from the Project Gutenberg DVD Project available in a variety of formats, including pdf, eReader, and as Palm document files.
Novelist: Your Guide to Fiction
The Online Books Page
A list of online texts posted by the University of Pennsylvania.
Online Collections at BYU
Search across online collections of text and images created or digitized at BYU.
Project Gutenberg
Books published pre-1923. You won't find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others.
University of Virginia's E-Book Library
1,600 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more.
Yahoo Online Literature Collections
Yahoo's complete listing of literature online electronic databases including Bartleby, Project Gutenberg, Books-on-line, etc.
