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Urantia Study Group - Urantia Book Groups - Guelph Urantia Study Group's Profile. 391 Places for Free Books Online. Introduction This is the launch page for the pages here at Gizmo's Tech Support Alert that list sites with free ebooks and audiobooks.

391 Places for Free Books Online

There are well over a million free ebooks and audiobooks at the sites listed within these pages. There are 3 pages that separate sites on the format of the ebooks, Kindle, ePub and Online Reading. There is a main page for both ebooks and audiobooks that lists all the sites carrying each. There are also 21 genre listings. The sites within the free comic books and free motion comics pages are not included in the main ebook and audiobook pages. To the best of my knowledge all of the websites listed here offer only content that they are legally entitled to transfer to you. The Online Books Page: Book Listings.

Our local index includes more than 2 million works in various formats that meet these criteria.

The Online Books Page: Book Listings

(Over 50,000 are in our "curated collection", representing entries we've personally edited. The rest are in our "extended shelves", entries that are provided by other organizations and imported in bulk.) Ebooks free download Medical SEO Fiction and Computer free books download. AllYouCanRead.com - The World's Largest Online Newsstand - 28,000 Newspapers and Magazines from 200 Countries. The 100 Best Books of All Time. Many publishers have lists of 100 best books, defined by their own criteria.

The 100 Best Books of All Time

This article enumerates some lists of "100 best" books for which there are fuller articles. Among them, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels (Xanadu, 1985) and Modern Fantasy: The 100 Best Novels (Grafton, 1988) are collections of 100 short essays by a single author, David Pringle, with moderately long critical introductory chapters also by Pringle. Banned Books Online. Presents Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts.

Banned Books Online

The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page. (See that page for more than 2 million more online books!) This page is a work in progress, and more works may be added to this page over time. Please inform onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu of any new material that can be included here. Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities Ulysses by James Joyce was selected by the Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century, and has received wide praise from other literature scholars, including those who have defended online censorship.

25 Free Sites for Reading Books Online. Do you love to read but hate to walk or drive or rise from a prone position on your hammock?

25 Free Sites for Reading Books Online

Well, if you have Internet access, you don’t have to! (Granted, if you only have a desktop computer, you’ll probably have to sit up.) ManyBooks.net - Ad-free eBooks for your iPad, smartphone, or eBook reader. Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide. When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well.

Best Places to Get Free Books – The Ultimate Guide

Thank you for all your helpful contributions! In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order: 50 Classic Intelligent Quotes. 50 intelligent quotes, ideal for Facebook status updates. 1.

50 Classic Intelligent Quotes

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen 2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 3. Recommended Intellectual Catholic Book List. By Fr.

Recommended Intellectual Catholic Book List

Gary Coulter These book were chosen to help enhance the faith and belief of Catholic students outside of the classroom. They are not intended to replace the textbooks or curriculum used by Catholic Schools. The books are classified according to topic and appropriate grade level, but choices should be tailored specifically for each student. See all my other book lists, including: New: Children's Books and Catholic Novels; Books on Apologetics and Books for Seminarians and Priests This is a work in progress, so please e-mail your corrections and suggestions or write in the guestbook.

Internet Book List. Arabian Nights - Index. This is an extract of one of the earliest translations of the "Arabian Nights" into English, made by Sir Richard Francis Burton.

Arabian Nights - Index

I got the "flat" ASCII text from a gopher server that has been unavailable for some years now. I have no idea who scanned/typed the text. This extract is not nearly complete. The "arabian nighs" form a huge text corpus, and in translating them, Burton performed a gargantuan work. At ca. 350 pages per volume and 16 volumes, the full text corpus will contain some 11MByte. In 1996, I HTML'ed the text and split it up to make it better readable. Before diving into the universe of the Nights, you should take heed of this Warning!

Intro Story The Tale Of The Bull And The Ass The Fisherman And The Jinni The Tale Of The Ensorceled Prince The Porter And The Three Ladies Of Baghdad. Free Books - 50 Places to Find Free Books Online. Mar 18, 2011 Free books can be found everywhere--if you know where to look.

Free Books - 50 Places to Find Free Books Online

Below you'll find 50 places offering free books online, including fiction and nonfiction ebooks, audio books, poetry, reference books and even free textbooks. Free Fiction and Nonfiction Books Authorama - You can find more than 100 free books from a variety of different authors on Authorama. New books are added to the site each month, and they've all been translated into plain ASCII or HTML so that no e-reader is required. Project Gutenberg - free ebooks online download for iPad, Kindle, Nook, Android, iPhone, iPod Touch, Sony Reader. Google Books. TextbookRevolution. 11 Most Ironically Banned Books Of All Time. Saturday, September 26th through Saturday, October 3rd is the 27th annual National Banned Books Week, a week that opposes censorship, the Thought Police, and closeted gay "family values" types who sublimate their man-on-man urges through rampant and vigorous homophobia.

Long time readers of this website will know I hate three things: Internet commenters who misuse your and you're... hypocrisy... and you're mom. Today's list is going after hypocrisy. (It would go after your mom, but her ass is too big to fit anything after it.) I searched through lists of books that have been banned at one time or another (mostly in the U.S.), and found the ones whose bans were the most hypocritical, ignorant, and, based on the content of the books, ironic. 1.

This gets the number one spot because, ya know, it's an entire novel about the future government banning (and burning) books because they could inspire critical thought. 2. 3. 4. How did the Ayatollah react when the book came out? 20 of the World's Most Beautiful Libraries - Oddee.com (beautiful libraries, amazing libraries...) For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers, for others it’s abandoned factories or lost cities.

But for those who enjoy reading, a huge beautiful library is a place of endless pleasure. Meet 20 of the biggest and most beautiful libraries around the globe, as presented by . You can find this and more fascinating pictures on Candida Hofer's book. Abbey Library St. Public Domain.

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