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African Digital Library
Addressing third world information imbalance by offering free access to anyone living in Africa, this netLibrary-supported initiative lives at:
http://AfricaEducation.org/adl

Free African-American e-books E-books by and about African-Americans. All presented in three formats, HTML, palm (.pdb) and MS Reader (.lit).
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html

Free Apache e-books You can read these online in English, Apache, or in parallel translation (for the latter two, download the Apache/Navajo font provided onsite). Some tales have intriguing titles, such as Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, The Woman Who Had Horse Power and The Foolish People Acquire Coffee.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache

Free Arabic e-books
UAE Yearbook 2004 in Arabic, French & English. Also UAE: A New Perspective. Download each chapter separately, in PDF.
http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp

Arabian Poetry Encyclopedia Mawsuat al-shir al-Arab; from Egypt, Arabic Poems & Lyrics. Online in HTML.
http://arabicpoems.com/

Mega-links site for Arab literature & culture.
http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature

Free Argentinian literature Argentinian Digital Library Project - Proyecto Biblioteca Digital Argentina. From Juan Bautista Alberdi to Eduardo Wilde, more than seventy authors are represented here across a wide range of literature in Spanish. Online in HTML.
http://www.clarin.com.ar/pbda/index.html

Austrian Literature Online Scanned as images, a huge quantity (more than twelve thousand items) of Austrian literature -even including postcards - is available here online. Thanks to more than twenty participating institutions. You may legally print them out too -in fact they facilitate it. http://www.literature.at/

Free Belarusian e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian literature in Belarusian, plus some English, German & other translations.
http://knihi.com

New Free Balkan History e-books
Istorija Balkana Over 1200 e-books in PDF format, mostly about the history of the Balkans. This site (in Serbo-Croatian) opened in May 2008 and is a free, non-profit library. Registration is required to join the user community.
http://www.istorijabalkana.com

New Free Bangla e-books Online writers' community Sacalayatan has a few literary e-books in PDF versions to read online or download. You will need to have the correct font enabled in your browser.
http://www.sachalayatan.com/

Bengali Literature online Collection of Poems by the famed Bengali writer & poet Rabindranath Tagore. In English as plain text.
http://www.indolink.com/Poetry/tgorIndx.html

Some helpful pages to understand the background of authors, periods & movements in Bengali literature are available at: http://bengalonline.sitemarvel.com/login.asp?bengali-literature.html

Free Brasilian e-books More than sixty free titles from 26 authors, including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Available as downloads for offline reading - formats include Word, PDF, RTF and some Palm PDB.
http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional

Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro (de Lingua Portuguesa). Brazilian stories, poetry novels and plays, plus works translated into Portuguese. Select the Text (textos) heading for three reading options: works prepared for Palm OS devices; HTML text for your Web browser; or PDF downloads for the Adobe Reader.
http://antiga.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.php

Some free Brasilian Law e-books in Portuguese, plus the Constitution of Brasil in English. http://www.lifestylesbrazil.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index

Free Bulgarian literature LiterNet - Bulgarian poetry and other literary resources available here.
http://liternet.bg/

Free Burmese e-books A Collection of Burmese texts, usually as PDFs for the Adobe Reader or in HTML for your Web browser.
http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=-1

New Free Catalan Language e-books These are significant, non-fiction, Creative Commons-licensed titles. For either reading online in HTML or downloading - large files in various formats incl. PDFs, Word, Open Office, Plucker, PalmDOC. See:
http://www.culturalliure.org/index.php


Free Chinese e-books Supplied by the New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, this electronic library is claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts.
http://www.xys.org

Chinese Classics Pre-Qin philosophers, poetry, prose, biography, novels, commentary & other classical literature. Online in HTML for your Web browser.
http://www.cnd.org/Classics/

A search engine that may be used to locate many Chinese-language free books for adults plus for children comics, cartoons & education themes. These text may be read by installing eREAD's free proprietary software (file format STK), which includes many extra "community" features. Courtesy of Taiwan & China-based eREAD Technologies Co. Ltd
http://book.isoshu.com/

Free Colombian e-books More than a dozen free Colombian e-books are available in Spanish
from this site. Historical & literary topics predominate. Formatted for the Adobe Reader.
http://www.epigrafe.com

Free Croatian e-books
Classics of Croatian Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century,
variously as online text, RTF or PDF files.
http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm

Some free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read online.
http://www.elektronickeknjige.com

Free Danish Literature
Archiv for Dansk Litteratur Seventy or so traditional Danish authors are represented here, ranging from the children's tales of Hans Christian Andersen to the weighty prose of Søren Kierkegaard.Available in three formats; as scanned facsimiles, plain text, or downloadable files (XSQL) for offline use.
http://www.adl.dk/adl_pub/forside/cv/forside.xsql?nnoc=adl_pub

Free Dutch Literature
Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlansde letteren Many hundreds of out-of copyright Dutch authors are represented here in original format, some illustrated. Check out the enchantment & wonderful pictures of Baron van Hippelepip (1917) as a children's classic, for example.
http://www.dbnl.org/

Free Esperanto e-books eLibrejo. Over 270 books (both original and translated) in Esperanto. For downloading in .pdf format. (Use the Adobe Reader software). Subjects include fiction, poetry, theatre, religion, classic & historic works, children's literature.
http://esperantujo.org/eLibrejo/

Free Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of topics.
http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com
There is also a Farsi books Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/farsibooks/



Free French e-books
Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). "Sur les 30 millions de pages du fonds numérisé des imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dont un peu plus du tiers relève du XIXe siècle, Gallica permet dès à présent d'accéder à quelques 2500 ouvrages numérisés en mode image, complétés par UN extrait de la base " Frantext " du CNRS qui permet la consultation de plus de 250 volumes saisis en mode texte."
http://gallica.bnf.fr

Bibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993. Searchable by author and title. Text word search is also available. Online, in plain text.
http://abu.cnam.fr

Bibliopolis. La bibliothèque des lettres : plus de 2000 œuvres (sciences humaines et littérature) en texte intégral sont consultables. Grâce au logiciel Trevi, vous pourrez effectuer toutes les recherches possibles sur les auteurs, les ,,, (NB: This is now a passworded site).
http://www.bibliopolis.fr

Social sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In Word, PDF and RTF formats. As of February 2007 the collection offers 2431 original works from 782 differentauthors . Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of France.
http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales



Free German e-books
This free page of a German e-book store offers a few titles, mostly as PDF files.
http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html

ngiyaw eBooks. A blast from the past - hard to find German works and authors are featured here, especially by and/or about women. Some classic English and Hungarian books also. Formats available are Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), mobiPocket Reader (.prc), MSReader (.lit) and sometimes TomeRaider (.tr),plus HTML for your Web browser. Thanks to "Katalin und Peter".
http://www.ngiyaw-ebooks.org/ (WAP site http://wap.ngiyaw-ebooks.org)

Free Hausa e-books In Hausa and English, from the pen of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam.
NB: These are very large PDF files for the Adobe reader, more suitable for Broadband than dialup. http://www.abubakarimam.com/od/upload/index.php

Free Hebrew e-books Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make the public domain classics of
Hebrew literature freely accessible to Hebrew readers, as searchable HTML works. Note the browser requirements indicated in the FAQ.
http://benyehuda.org

Free Hungarian e-books Large list of free Magyar elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at:
http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt



Free Indian e-books Inaugurated by President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in late 2003, the Digital Library of India now has more than 29,000 books on the Web. It aims to eventually create a free-to-read, searchable online collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet.
http://www.dli.ernet.in/

Hindi Poets Nicely presented online & illustrated, in HTML. Some plain text & a little audio also. NB: to read some poetry you will need to have Hindi fonts installed http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/hindipoets.html



Free Italian e-books

Amolenuvolette. Free Italian intellectual e-books. Across the art-science connection come these exceptional titles. Studies include fractal structures in biology, maths and arts; human-machine interfaces; transistor nanoelectronics; art & mixed media, & more. Note the fine graphics too. As .pdf files for your Adobe Reader, or similar software.
http://www.amolenuvolette.it/pdfs

Antologia della Letteratura Italiana. Novels, poetry, plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary. In HTML, for reading online. Includes some Dante, Boccaccio, St Francis of Assisi, Alessandro Manzoni and Enrico Maria Ferrari. An initiative of Riccardo Scateni.
http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html

Free e-books in Italian. Yes, cost is null, zero, niente. Genres include novels, poetry, classics, plays, biographies, horror & fantasy, & New Economy. In MS Reader format only.
http://www.ebookgratis.it/

Libri Online Pelagus. Italian classical authors online. Works and biographies of twenty-one authors from Alberti to Verga, including Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Manzoni. In HTML for your web browser.
http://www.pelagus.org/it/libri

The Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book site. Covering fields from Arte e architettura to viaggiare, including letteratura fantastica, poesia, teatro, and much more.
http://www.liberliber.it/

Ozoz. Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available as HTML (versione ipertestuale); RTF (ideale per la stampa dei libri); TXT (puro testo): & for download zipped.
http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm



Free Japanese e-books

Aozora Bunko. More than 2000 works of copyright-free Japanese literature. Various formats available, including HTML, download zips and Japanese e-book format.
http://www.aozora.gr.jp

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu An anthology of 100 seventh to thirteenth century classic Japanese poems by 100 different poets, all "waka" ("tanka"), five-line poems of 31 syllables. Available in HTML side by side in Japanese characters, Romaji and English translation. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/hyakunin/index.html

Free Korean e-books
Digital Han'gukhak. From the Academy of Korean Studies.
http://www.koreandb.net

Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature site.
http://bh.knu.ac.kr/%7Emkkim

New Free Multilingual PDF e-books
PDF Search Engine
Of French origin, this new and popular site searches websites, forums, and message boards for pdf book files, by title. Searches are available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian & Spanish versions. NB: search is unfettered, so it is the user's responsibility to confirm that books found are of legitimate origin and not pirated.
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com

Free Myanmar (Burmese) e-book
Myanmar Travel Information 2005 eBook (Myanmar is also known as Burma). Free Innwa Myanmar Font (for Windows) also available from this page.
http://www.myanmars.net/download/

Free Polish e-books
Polish literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk.
http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm

Polska Biblioteka Internetowa. Includes classic Polish literature among its collections, and Polish translations of famous works from other nations. In HTML.
http://www.pbi.edu.pl

Free Portuguese e-books
Virtual Books. PDF downloads of titles from a goodly range of authors. http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm

Projecto Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs.
http://www.ipn.pt/literatura

Free Romanian literature e-books
Essays, Poetry, Dramas, Translations, Art http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm#Romanian



Free Russian e-books


Electronic Publications Library. Works from Chekov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and other famous
Russian authors. For Reading online in HTML. All in Russian.
http://public-library.narod.ru

Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books.
http://www.lib.ru

Books in Russian formatted for Palm OS devices in .prc format.
http://www.palmpc.ru/

Russian electronic environmental library.
http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm

Russian SciFi & Fantasy books available online here, in both Russian & English. Pioneering site, since 1996.
http://www.rusf.ru



Free Sanskrit e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit Proverbs, are available as downloadable
MS Word documents from this site. The Purana file is zipped.
http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm

Free Scottish and Glaswegian e-books From the Glasgow Digital Library (GDL). Currently five books each about Scotland and Glasgow, available online in plain text at: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlebooks.html

Dictionary of the Scots Language Comprises searchable electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST -covers Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries) and the Scottish National Dictionary (SND - for the period since).
http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/

Free Serbian e-books Projekat Rastko. Biblioteka srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro. In addition, some Serbian literature is offered in other languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, & Ukrainian.
http://www.rastko.org.yu

Free Slovenian e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian literature, with a few
authorised modern items. Available to read online.
http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html



Free Spanish e-books
Free literary unpublished texts, especially in Spanish and Catalan.
http://www.badosa.com

Selecció de Poesia Catalana (Catalan Poetry Selection). 176 authors and 799 original poems are available here (with 37 poems translated into English). Colourfully presented online in HTML
http://www.uoc.edu/lletra/especials/folch/

New Cuantolibro (=What a lot of books) This recent Spanish language site gives you web addresses to download over fifty thousand e-books; & is searchable by author, title, or subject. Genres include Art, Languages, Literature, Medicine, Mysticism & esoteric, Psychology, Philosophy, Science, Social Studies, Religion and more. Formats include pdf, and as zipped files.
http://www.cuantolibro.com/



Free Swedish e-books
eBoklagret Omnibus. More than 480 works from 60 Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. http://www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret

Free Turkish e-books
Türk Öyküleri Sandigi. From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish tales and other literature,
in both Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe Reader 5.0 or above.
NB: for reading, study, or citation only.
http://aton.swco.ttu.edu

Contemporary Turkish Literature Translated into English, these are extracts from a score of novels, more plays, dozens of short stories and various other literary forms. Represented here online with appealing illustrations, this site is an excellent place to begin an appreciation of modern Turkish writing. Thanks to Professor Suat Karantay of Bogazici University.
http://www.turkish-lit.boun.edu.tr/

Sufism & Science. MS Reader format.
http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar
(English versions also available at http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks/,
with German to come).

Free Ukrainian e-books The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature. Classic texts of Ukrainian prose. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.Thanks to Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky at the University of Toronto, Canada, various Ukrainian publishers and other supporters.
http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/

Free USA e-books. USA Today's Open Book program. Presented as a separate section on the newspaper's website, Open Book runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all visitors. http://www.openbook.usatoday.com

Free Urdu e-books Awaz Sayeed's short stories. From the noted author, online in HTML.
http://www.awazsayeed.com/

Hamid Syed's Urdu Poetry Page Includes a Urdu dictionary and other resources. In HTML with some zipped files available for downloads. For some materials you will need Urdu font (available from www.urduweb.com)
http://www.employees.org/~hsyed/urdu.html

Dictionary of the Welsh Language (subject to further corrections) The First edition is available as large PDF files, suitable for broadband download. You may search this on your own computer using Adobe Reader 5 and above. It is hoped that a concise interactive version of the Dictionary will soon be available on the Web. NB: A second edition is a work in progress.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAU
Free Welsh e-books Llyfrgell Owen - a Library of Welsh Language Texts. Works are presented In plain text format. This fledging site lacks funding and welcomes volunteers to enlarge it. Apêl yw hon felly am gydweithwyr, cyfranogwyr a chyfranwyr.
http://www.testunau.org/

Refoyl's Yiddish resources Veb-bletl (Yiddish & Hebrew Texts). More than fifty Yiddish texts from around the world variously in HTML, plain text, as PDFs or as image GIFs. Includes a searchable Yiddish dictionary and even a song database, plus numerous other Yiddish resources http://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/yiddish.html