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						In this section you will find links to sites offering either royalty-free texts (mostly classics) or texts that are freely accessible for any other reason (although the copyright remains by the authors and must be acknowledged in each distribution). (You can use them as source for new vocabulary or full sentences to be learnt with VTrain. Clip words from them and import the words into flashcard Decks by means of our freeware Clip2VTrain.) For ebooks in a specific language, visit the appropriate language-specific page. For more information about electronic texts visit Online Books FAQ by Thomas Dell (Carnegie Mellon Univ.)  Contents   Links to etexts E-Book readers Copyright issues
		Links to etexts				Project Gutenberg (CERN mirror no longer exists) - Several European languages, mainly English. Endorsed by volunteers all around the world. Donations accepted. Archive.org University of Columbia The European Library 150 million entries. A free service that offers access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.). Manybooks.net Rice University : choose "Literature, Electronic Books and Journals" or search by subject. Electronic Text Center (Univ. of VA) - 45000 texts in twelve languages. IPL Internet Public Library (Michigan) Books On-line - an enervatingly busy server. Digital Libraries Texts Wiretap Bibliomania (Data Text Processing Ltd. ) Bartleby (Columbia U.) PEAL -- U. of Penn., Dept. of English The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia Philosophy (at U. of Idaho) Oxford Archive Richard Bear The LOGOS Collection of Electronic Books (Wordtheque) From an Italian translation company Samizdat.com Savetz's Unofficial Public Domain Index Logos Wordtheque - Large list of languages, includes links to Project Gutenberg. Logos' Wordtheque is a gigantic searchable database of literature. Some of the books are available in sound format. Bilingual texts (!) http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/ Children Children's Literature Web Guide
		E-Book readers				An "ebook reader" has certain advantages over a regular plain text editor or viewer. The ideal ebook reader allows customizing font typeface and size, and supports voice commands. Gutenbrowser (free) searches for, downloads, and displays e-texts. A text-to-speech add-on is available! Adobe eBook Reader (formerly Glassbook Reader) for PDF texts. Microsoft Reader [also available for Pocket PC], supports audio books, too. Read Assistant txt, rtf, doc, and html viewer. Hands-free reading. Scroll speed scaling. Bookmarking of passages. EtextViewer (free) txt viewer. Automatic scrolling. 5 bookmarks. EBK (free) txt, rtf viewer. Bookmarks. Ebook readers for platforms other than Windows: EBook [EPOC] Handybook [Windows CE] MobiPocket Reader (Freeware) for *.html, *.txt, etc. [PalmOS, EPOC and Windows CE] PeanutReader [PalmOS and Windows CE] PeekAbook [Handheld PC and Palm PC] Primer, for PDF [PalmOS, Windows CE] Starbuck (Shareware) *.txt, *.html
		Copyright issues				A Brief Citation Guide for Internet Sources in History and the Humanities by Melvin E. Page. Useful if you need to reference texts from the Internet in footnotes or bibliography. The Public Domain Information Project, a non-profit corporation which facilitates the ordinary person's access to the public domain.
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