E-Books accessible at Wellehan

NetLibrary, accessible from Wellehan database title list, courtesy of MARVEL!, Maine's Virtual Library, provides access to “…a collection of 7,885 e-books (4,480
Netlibrary titles and 3,405 Project Gutenberg titles). Users may view e-books online in 15-minute intervals. Users, who wish to view e-books remotely, or check out an e-book for a four hour loan period, must create a Netlibrary account…” Creating an account is FREE, click on the “create free account on the top right.
For example, search for a copy of Plato’s Republic. You will be able to read the introduction and chapters and print some of the text as deemed necessary. Note the time limitations above.

(ALSO, You could download and print Plato’s Republic using Google)

Other e-book possibilities:
E-Book Collections, University of West Florida
http://library.uwf.edu/eli/general/ebooks.shtml


The Online Book Page, University of Pennsylvania
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Google
http://books.google.com/bkshp?hl=en&tab=wp&q=
Google is process of scanning books to make them available. Books out of copyright can be downloaded and printed!

The complete plays of Shakespeare are NOW available!
http://books.google.com/googlebooks/shakespeare/


Digital Book Index
http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm
"...searchable database includes more than 116,000 digitized books:
--you must register each time you search (it is free though)

Eldritch Press
http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/
"Here are free, accessible books. Read them and go in peace." Books cover the subject spectrum: literature (American, English, literature in translation, science, books to read aloud to children, some history, etc.)

More titles are becoming available in electronic form everyday. This list will be updated as soon as that information is available.