40,000 Free eBooks and eTexts for Your Mobile Devices (iPad, iPhone, Kindle, Samsung Galaxy, etc.

You can read books and novels on your book readers. Of course, it's easier to read a paper book, but book readers have their advantages: you can carry twenty or thirty novels in your book reader, it always remembers what page you were at, and you can read anytime, anywhere.

40,000 eBooks and eText...

There are perhaps 100,000 etexts on the net: books, documents, maps, etc. Some of the following collections have links to more collections.

Avoid the temptation to convert into a unique format for your current book reader and delete the ASCII text. Book readers may be hot at the moment, but ASCII format has been around for twenty years, and it's certain that we will use ASCII twenty years from now, whereas it's also certain that whatever book reader format we use today, it will be obsolete in a few years. So if you're creating a worthwhile document, save it in both PDA and ASCII format, and make it available in both.

The following are in no particular order.

Project Gutenberg. 13,000 etexts in ASCII at Gutenberg.org. Project Gutenberg started the first collection of etexts.
Carnegie-Mellon. 29,000 etexts at english-www.hss.cmu.edu/.
Humanities Text Initiative (HTI). University of Michigan. An umbrella organization for the creation, delivery, and maintenance of electronic texts. HTML, in a single file. hti.umich.edu/. List of etexts at hti.umich.edu/english/pd-modeng/bibl.html.
Online Books Page at University of Pennsylvania. 20,000 etexts. Various formats, incl. links to other e-libraries, incl. Gutenberg. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/. The Archives has links to many collections, incl. many languages. digital.library.upenn.edu/books/archives.html.
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts. American literature, English literature, and Western philosophy. 133 authors and 1,000 etexts. ASCII. Automatically creates a Palm prc file. sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/.
Perseus Project at Tufts University. perseus.tufts.edu/. Digital library of the ancient world, with texts in Greek, Latin, heiroglyphics, plus other languages.
Bibliomania. 2,000 etexts. HTML, in separate chapters. bibliomania.com/.
NetLibrary. 4,000 etexts. For reading on PCs (not PDAs.) Cumbersome checkout procedure, plus user registration, etc. legacy.netlibrary.com.
Bartleby.com. HTML. Sells etexts. Copy and convert to ASCII. Bartleby.com.
Internet Public Library (IPL) 20,000 etexts. SMGL, many chapters. Easy to convert to ASCII. Strip out the SMGL. Internet Public Library.
gopher://wiretap.area.com/11/Books
Free-Ebooks.net
EbookDirectory.com
Memoware.com
University of Virginia's collection at etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
e-book.com.au in Australia
PlanetPDF.com

What to Read: The Best Novels of the 1800s

At the end of the 1800s, various lists were compiled of what was considered the best novels of the 1800s. Literary tastes have changed; some very famous 19th century novels are scarcely known today, most of the authors are completely unknown. This list is alphabetical by author's last name.

Author	Book Title
W. H. Ainsworth	The Tower of London. Old St Paul's. Windsor Castle.
Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice. Sense and Sensibility.
Honoré de Balzac	Pere Goriot.
J. M. Barrie	A Window in Thrums.
W. Besant and J . Rice	The Golden Butterfly.
Rolf Boldrewood	Robbery Under Arms.
M. E. Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret.
Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre. Shirley.
Hall Caine	The Deemster.
Henry Cockton	Valentine Vox.
Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White. The Moonstone.
J. Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans. The Pathfinder. The Prairie.
F. Marion Crawford	Mr Isaacs.
Charles Dickens	Martin Chuzzlewit. Nicholas Nickleby. The Old Curiosity Shop. Dombey and Son. Oliver Twist.
Conan Doyle	The Firm of Girdlestone.
Alexandre Dumas	The Three Musketeers. Twenty Years After. The Count of Monte Cristo.
George Eliot	Scenes of Clerical Life.
Henry Fielding	Tom Jones. Joseph Andrews.
Mrs Gaskell	Mary Barton.
James Grant	The Aide de Camp. The Romance of War.
Bret Harte	Gabriel Conroy.
N. Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter. The House of the Seven Gables.
O. W. Holmes	Elsie Venner.
Anthony Hope	The Prisoner of Zenda.
Thomas Hughes	Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Victor Hugo	Les Misérables. Toilers of the Sea. Notre Dame.
Charles Kingsley	Two Years Ago. Alton Locke. Hypatia.
Henry Kingsley	The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn.
Rudyard Kipling	Soldiers Three.
George Lawrence	Guy Livingstone.
Charles Lever	Harry Lorrequer. Charles O'Malley.
E. Lynn Linton	The Atonement of Leam Dundas.
Samuel Lover	Handy Andy. Rory O'More.
Lord Lytton	Last of the Barons. Night and Morning. Rienzi. The Caxtons.
Captain Marryat	The King's Own. Peter Simple. Jacob Faithful. Midshipman Easy.
George Meredith	Diana of the Crossways.
D. M. Muloch	John Halifax, Gentleman.
Ouida	Under Two Flags.
Charles Reade	It is Never Too Late to Mend. Peg Woffington and Christie Johnstone. Hard Cash.
Capt Mayne Reid	The Headless Horseman.
Amelie Rives	Virginia of Virginia.
Olive Schreiner	The Story of an African Farm.
Michael Scott	Tom Cringle's Log. Cruise of the Midge.
H. Sienkiewicz	Quo Vadis?
Sir Walter Scott	Rob Roy. The Bride of Lammermoor. Old Mortality. Kenilworth. Guy Mannering. Woodstock. The Talisman.
Frank E. Smedley	Frank Fairlegh.
Tobias Smollett	Roderick Random. Peregrine Pickle.
Mrs F. A. Steel	On the Face of the Waters.
Laurence Sterne	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.
H. B. Stowe	Uncle Tom's Cabin.
R. S. Surtees	Soapey Sponge's Sporting Tour.
Eugene Sue	The Wandering Jew.
W. M. Thackeray	The History of Henry Esmond. The Newcomes. The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon.
Count L. Tolstoy	Anna Karenina.
Anthony Trollope	Orley Farm.
Mrs H. Ward	Robert Elsmere.
D. C. L. Warren S.	£10,000 a Year.
E. Wetherell	The Wide, Wide World.
G. J. Whyte-Melville	Market Harborough. Inside the Bar.
Mrs Henry Wood	East Lynne.

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