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This list is not exhaustive, but is a guide to the best maintained e-book sites.

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• Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts on the Internet - The Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a full-text indexed collection of classic American and English literature as well as Western philosophy in the public domain and written or translated into English.
• Bartleby.com - full text general reference books, works of literature and verse.
• Cambridge Dictionaries Online Includes:
  • Cambridge international dictionary of English
  • Cambridge learner's dictionary
  • Cambridge dictionary of American English
  • Cambridge international dictionary of idioms
  • Cambridge international dictionary of phrasal verbs.
• CARRIE : a full-text electronic library - links to collections of full-text documents and books relating to historical topics
• Cascadilla Proceedings Project - Full-text papers from linguistics conferences
• Digital Book Index
  This index is intended as a "Meta-index" for most major eBook sites, along with thousands of smaller specialized sites. Digital Book Index provides links to more than 105,000 title records from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. About 66,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free, while many others are available at a small cost.
• E-Books Directory - a list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes.
• eScolarship editions
  University of California Press now offers public access to nearly 400 full text eBooks through a partnership with the California Digital Library's eScholarship program. The electronic editions are best read on a PC using Internet Explorer 4.x or above, or a Macintosh using Netscape 6.x.
• Guoxue - 140 million characters of Chinese classical texts.
• Handbook of methods used in Rhizosphere Research
  The COST 631 - Handbook of methods used in Rhizosphere Research is now available online. Please go to the individual chapters to look for method sheets.
• Internet Classics Archive - a list of 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors - Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation.
• ManyBooks
  10,517 eBooks formatted for reading on your Palm, PocketPC, Zaurus, Rocketbook, or Symbian cellphone. (Librie format in beta). Most etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks, due to copyright. As of July 2004 all current PG texts are available here, usuallly within the week of release.
• MSRI Books
  MSRI Books is a series of Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications published by Cambridge University Press. New books are posted here in full text, a few months after publication.
• National Academies Press - From 2nd June 2011 all PDF versions of books published by the National Academies Press will be downloadable to anyone free of charge. This includes a current catalog of more than 4,000 books plus future reports produced by the Press.
  
  The free PDFs are available exclusively from the NAP's website and remain subject to copyright laws. PDF versions exist for the vast majority of NAP books. Exceptions include some books that were published before the advent of PDFs; books from the Joseph Henry Press imprint; and in cases where contractually prohibited, such as reference books in the Nutrient Requirements of Domestic Animals series.
• Online Books Page - full text books
• Online Medieval and Classical Library (OMACL) - a collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization.
• Oxford Text Archive - high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching in the Arts and Humanities
• Project Gutenberg - famous and important texts
• Read Print - access to thousands of classic novels
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) - an online dynamic philosophy reference resource that is free and open access, allowing the education community to share and read for free the writings of the finest experts in their fields.