The On-line Books Page

This is the front page for an index of hundreds of on-line books. It also points to some common repositories of on-line books and other documents. Please write to spok+books@cs.cmu.edu to suggest new material, or better sources for the material below. Or, if you fill out this form, your comment will go to both me and the maintainer of Alex.

For more book-related linke, see the Internet Book Information Center at Sunsite. There's also an old on-line books FAQ kept at Indiana.

See also reference works, bibliographies, journals, on-line catalogs, and electronic libraries.

Special exhibit: Banned Books On-Line

Exhibit in preparation: A Celebration of Women Writers

Index of On-Line Books

Our local index includes more than 700 English works in various formats, including text and HTML. All should be free for personal, noncommercial use. (Exact terms may vary.) You can: Another index is Alex. It has shorter texts as well as full-length books. For on-line books that aren't free, try this index of on-line book sellers.

General English Repositories

More books can be found in one of these well-known repositories.

Specialty or foreign-language repositories

More foreign-language materials are on Willamette's Human Languages Page.

Book Catalogues and Retailers

A listing of on-line publishers and retailers is available. It includes a listing of companies that sell on-line editions.

John Ockerbloom <spok+books@cs.cmu.edu>-- Last updated 30-May-95