The Library (places to find e-books)

[Ford Prefect]

Dedicated to Fullcircle.

Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenburg.org) and Project Gutenberg Australia (http://www.gutenberg.net.au)- Over twenty-eight thousand books no longer in copyright. Due to differing copyright laws the two sites have slightly different content.

Internet Sacred Texts Archive (http://www.sacred-texts.com)- The largest freely available archive of online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet.

The Internet Classics Archive (http://classics.mit.edu)- Four hundred and forty-one searchable classics provided by our good friends at MIT.

The Burgomeisters Books (http://www.truly-free.org)- Over seventeen hundred modern classics and bestsellers. Meant to resume chronologically where Gutenberg leaves off. Courtesy of a nice man in Panama.

World Public Library (http://www.worldpubliclibrary.org)- Half a MILLION ebooks. Does unfortunately require a yearly membership fee of nine dollars. If I break down and pay I'll surely post the login info.

Wowio (http://www.wowio.com)- Purportedly the only source where readers can legally access high-quality copyrighted ebooks from leading publishers for free. More importantly, they have comics! Accessible from the iPhone.

Manybooks (http://manybooks.net)- Twently-three thousand and some ebooks specializing in obscure formats so you can put them on your PDA, mobile phone or specialized ebook reader.

The Online Books Page (http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books)- Thirty-five thousand books from the University of Pennsylvania. Ace selection of banned books.

Baen Free Library (http://www.baen.com/library)- A bunch of I believe mostly sci-fi and fantasy titles. Available for download in a few different formats or you can always read them online.

E-Books Directory (http://www.e-booksdirectory.com/)- Nearly seventeen thousand ebooks, documents and lecture notes in over three hundred categories. More everyday.

Google Books (http://books.google.com)- Search and preview millions of books from libraries and publishers worldwide using Google Book Search. They have some excellent stuff, although you might have to dig for it.

http://www.warez-bb.org
http://www.anonib.com/bookchan
http://www.bookyards.com
http://www.dailylit.com
http://www.bookwarez.org/index.php?P...1caf7fc5e9;www
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
http://www.avaxhome.ws/ebooks
http://www.g2p.org
http://www.librarything.com
http://www.openlibrary.org

EDIT:

Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/

They have the tendency to open/close registration at random, so heres a zoklet account if you can't make your own or just don't want to.

[ Username: Zoklet ]
[ Password: 54321 ]


Lanny's Guide to Downloading Ebooks
(That you probably haven't read before)
By: Lanny




This is my guide to downloading ebooks from #bookz, the largest source of copyrighted ebooks on the internet. It is done via IRC/DCC, no torrents or HTTP downloads involved.

1. Requirements
You're going to need :
* IRC client with DCC file transfer (I recommend Xchat (http://www.silverex.org/download/) (mIRC works too))
* A book name or author (category searches won't do)

2. What you're doing
You're going to be connecting to a IRC channel populated mainly by bots. These bots index and share large collections of ebooks. You use the operating bot to search books and then download a book from a list.

3. Do it!
Included are screenshots using X-chat. The steps are the same, but the pictures may not apply if you're not using X-chat.

1. Connect to us.undernet.org (eu.undernet.org if you're east of the Atlantic)
http://i.imgur.com/Rcyc8.png

2. Join the #bookz channel. Don't try to chat, 90% of the room are bots.
http://i.imgur.com/tC9kG.png

3. Issue a public message like "@search Isaac Asimov" substituting Isaac Asimov for whatever book or author you are searching for (@seek also works, they return slightly different results as I understand it).
http://i.imgur.com/ndu00.png

4. You will be offered a zip over DCC. Select where you want to save and open it.
http://i.imgur.com/fuEAT.png

5. You should have a text file that looks similar to this:
http://i.imgur.com/si3iK.png

6. Find the file you want to download. From the image above I think the book listed on the line that reads "!afilon Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Trilogy - Introduction.txt ::INFO:: 21.1KB" is what I want to download. From here, I copy from the start of the line to just before the double space in front of the "::INFO::", that is to say, I would copy "!afilon Asimov, Isaac - Foundation Trilogy - Introduction.txt". Now paste this into your client and send it.
http://i.imgur.com/mDXuY.png

7. Depending on how many other users a bot is serving you may be put in a bot's queue, if this happens, simply wait until you are moved to the front of the queue. If it is taking too long, or the bot appears to not be responding it is acceptable to try another bot.

8. If the bot has no queue, or when you reach the front of a bot's queue you will be offered another zip file via DCC. Accept it the same way as the first zip. This zip contains your book.

9. Leave the channel and read!

[zingalong]

Awesome! I'll be checking these out later!

[negz]

eBook Resources Thread (Page 1):
http://yuhanna.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ebook1.pdf

eBook Resources Thread (Page 2):
http://yuhanna.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/ebook2.pdf

[Stock Market Anomalies]

WikiBooks
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Yggdrasil]

This is all fantastic. I might just run off a couple of these at the school library.

[Stock Market Anomalies]

Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/

They have the tendency to open/close registration at random, so heres a zoklet account if you can't make your own or just don't want to.

[ Username: Zoklet ]
[ Password: 54321 ]

[Lao Tzu]

Gigipedia (250,000+ ebooks)
http://gigapedia.com/

They have the tendency to open/close registration at random, so heres a zoklet account if you can't make your own or just don't want to.

[ Username: Zoklet ]
[ Password: 54321 ]

Thank you very much! (can't use the Thanks feature yet)
Found an awesome book on folk guitar.

[dirtyangelswithfaces]

This is not a free ebook site, but a search engine that scans all the major online book sellers looking for the cheapest copy of whatever work you're buying:
http://www.bookfinder.com/

[whocares123]

can anyone actually read several hundred pages on their computer screen? my eyes would explode...and i'd miss the portability of a book.

[Please insert username]

can anyone actually read several hundred pages on their computer screen? my eyes would explode...and i'd miss the portability of a book.

Yeah this, that's why i download them and put them on my mobile phone...

[whocares123]

Yeah this, that's why i download them and put them on my mobile phone...

well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.

[Please insert username]

well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.

i dont own an iphone or a blackberry. Also i'm not a 'trend faggot', my old phone was old as shit so i got new more advanced one.

[LiquidIce]

well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.

Dude, chill out. Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device, when I can buy a good phone that fulfills both of those roles? Less to carry! And I have the additional gps and a few other fun things with me.

And it's a Nokia :thumbsup:

[Please insert username]

Dude, chill out. Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device, when I can buy a good phone that fulfills both of those roles? Less to carry! And I have the additional gps and a few other fun things with me.

And it's a Nokia :thumbsup:

mines is a nokia as well, what phone is yours?

[LiquidIce]

mines is a nokia as well, what phone is yours?

N95-2. Decent battery, good screen for reading too. And lots and lots of space for ebooks.

[Please insert username]

N95-2. Decent battery, good screen for reading too. And lots and lots of space for ebooks.

Mine is the 5800 XpressMusic. Good screen for reading aswell and a lot of space for ebooks. Also a lot of space for music. So i just read and listen to music at the same time. So yeah, your phones probably better than mine, but they both can handle ebooks easily. so yeah...

[TruthWielder]

So awesome that I'm posting just to come back and give thanks (and explore these funk ass links).

[whocares123]

Why the hell would I buy a separate phone and a separate ebook reading device

why would you buy an "ebook reading device?"

it's called a fucking book and they are available for free at the god damn library.

[LiquidIce]

why would you buy an "ebook reading device?"

it's called a fucking book and they are available for free at the god damn library.

Haha! If you live in a first-world country in the west where books and cheap and libraries aplenty (and well stocked too!) then you're right! Almost!

But when I live somewhere where the three nearest libraries only have sci-fi and fantasy from the early 90's, where books cost 6 hours of minimum wage labor then we are fucked. Thus I chose to shell out quite some cash and buy a:
phone
ebook reader
pretty decent digital camera (which also acts as a webcam)
kinda decent gps and maps

And it all comes in one fun-sized brick of plastic and silicon. Oh yeah, I forgot, I live in a temporary place and buying books is out of the question since I won't lug them a few thousand kilometers to the US and then to the UK. Oh, and forget about english books, they're hard to come by.

[whocares123]

well its a bit ironic that you live in a poor country yet buy all these gadgets and gizmos and odds and ends.

[LiquidIce]

well its a bit ironic that you live in a poor country yet buy all these gadgets and gizmos and odds and ends.

It's not so poor, books are just expensive :p. And the only gizmo that I have is this phone, which I got from my dad - after a few years of not getting any presents he decided to buy me something nice.

[TruthWielder]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4PiVMasO6s&feature=related

Necessary point.

[PROJECT PAT]

www.librivox.org

has a huge selection of public domain audiobooks.

[RosettaStoned]

Yea Project Pat, thanks for posting that. I checked that out a few months ago and it's great. Oh, and thanks to everyone else for posting stuff. +1 for free books :D

[Rude Louis]

Bookmarking the fuck out of this thread.

[Arghzoo]

Check out

www.tuebl.com

The ultimate e-book library

Over 7000 new, copyrighted books in ePub format, accessible on iPhone, Android, nook, etc. It's amazing. Lots of new reading material and new releases!

[tOrQUx]

A good place to look is
obook.com
It's got loads of original stores so you don't have to worry about shit being copyrighted (unless you redistibute without author\obooko's permission).
Found some real gems there :)

[Lavender Lilac]

Where is a good place to find textbooks? I've been somewhat lucky in the past with just google searches, but now all I am finding are sites that seem malicious (download links as .exe files?) or just worthlessly inaccurate search engines.

[Lacuna]

Where is a good place to find textbooks? I've been somewhat lucky in the past with just google searches, but now all I am finding are sites that seem malicious (download links as .exe files?) or just worthlessly inaccurate search engines.

I've found a few of my textbooks using Lanny's method, but the bots that have everything I need are never answering. I'm getting pretty frustrated since some are also novels that I haven't been able to find anywhere else.

[I Kill Null Airtime]

well i'm not a trend faggot with a blackberry or iphone or other such advanced technology. my phone is a phone is a phone.

Now that it's 2012 do you think it's a trend?

[zTi]

and I sincerely apologize for dumping a list of which I cannot tell whether or not links good. Thank you.

O'Reilly online http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ | http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/
Computer books and manuals
http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html | http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/ | http://www.fore.com/support/manuals/home/home.htm | http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/webbuy/freebooks.html
The Network Book http://www.cs.columbia.edu/netbook/
Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc links
http://www.extrema.net/books/links.shtml
Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc fiction
http://194.58.154.90:4431/enscifi/
Pimpas online books (Indonesia)
http://202.159.16.55/~pimpa2000 | http://202.159.15.46/~om-pimpa/buku
Security, privacy and cryptography
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html | http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/
My own misc online reading material
http://www.eastcoastfx.com/docs/admin-guides/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/reading/
Computer books http://solaris.inorg.chem.msu.ru/cs-books/
| http://sweetrude.net/~cab/books/ | http://alaska.mine.nu/books/ | http://poprocks.dyn.ns.ca/dave/books/ | http://58-160.skarland.uaf.edu/books/ | Star Trek eBooks
http://www.iinet.net.au/~shanev/strekbk.html
Linux documentation http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html
FreeBSD documentation http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/
Sun documentation http://osiris.imw.tu-clausthal.de:8888/ | http://uran.vvsu.ru:8888/
SGI documentation
http://newton.unicc.chalmers.se/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb;td=2 | http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi
IBM Online Redbooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
Digital Unix documentation
http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40D_HTML/V40D_HTML/LIBRARY.HTM
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html | http://www.linuxbase.com/
UNIX stuff http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/~unixhelp/index.html | http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/ | http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html | http://www.franken.de/users/lorien/unix.html | http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~milun/unix.programming.html
Programmers reading http://www.programmersheaven.com/ | http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~alanf/se_proj97/
Programming Pearls 2nd edition
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
C stuff
http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/NewCcourse/ccourse.html | http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html | http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/c++programdesign/slides/ | http://www.icce.rug.nl/docs/cplusplus/cplusplus.html
Perl stuff http://www.webdesigns1.com/perl/ir.html | http://www.ictp.trieste.it/texi/perl/perl_toc.html | http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/ | http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/
Java stuff http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/ | http://polaris.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/CIS200/ | http://www.daimi.au.dk/dProg1/java/langspec-1.0/index.html
Lisp stuff
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/mirrors.html
| http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Villamil/lisp/
Ada stuff http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/
Database reading
http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/index.htm
SQL stuff http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm | http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/E.Ferneley/SQL/index.htm | http://www.daimi.au.dk/~oracle/sql/index.html
Visual Basic stuff http://www.vb-world.net/books/
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
X Window System http://tronche.com/gui/x/ | http://www.cen.com/mw3/refs.html | http://www.gaijin.com/X/
GTK and Gnome stuff
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html
QT and KDE stuff http://www.troll.no/qt/ | http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/index.html | http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/tutorial.html
Corba stuff http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/
TCP/IP info http://www.tunix.kun.nl/ptr/tcpip.html
Misc programmers reading
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chilimbi/Pubs.html | http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~nromano/spring99/readings.htm
Some useful tech articles http://www.sysadminmag.com/ | http://www.dotcomma.org/
Considering Hacking Constructive
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_2/gisle/index.html
Eric's Random Writings http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/
IBM's History
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/story/text.html
Electronic Publishing
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholtz/ElectronicPublishing.html
Digital processing http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
The Hardware Book http://sunsite.auc.dk/hwb/
Network iQ Router Reference Manual
http://www.teltrend.co.nz/documentation/networkiq/rel74/html/rmtoc.htm
Cisco Product Documentation
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/
Novell developers appnotes
http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/
Icons for your desktop http://nether.tky.hut.fi/iconstore/
Hackers' Hall of Fame at Discovery Online
http://www.discovery.com/area/technology/hackers/hackers.html
Symbols and signs and ideograms and stuff http://www.symbols.com/
Dictionaries http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/oed.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/ahd.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/columbia.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/thes.html | http://www.eb.com:180/
Misc reading material http://dali.orgland.ru/tcd/ | http://www.ud.se/english/press/pdf_publ.htm
Dantes Inferno
http://sophia.smith.edu/~lkleinbe/dante/home.html | http://www.divinecomedy.org/
Books and texts http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html | http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ | http://www.nakedword.org/ | http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
Literature stuff http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk:8080/ | http://www.swan.ac.uk/uwp/lit.htm
Octavo books http://www.octavo.com/
Project Gutenberg - books and texts http://www.promo.net/pg/
Project Runeberg - Scandinavian in books and texts http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/katalog.html
The Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
Bigtext - illustrated books and manuals for DOS http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/oldfav.html#bigtext
Breeze - a complete text system for Windows
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html#brzwin
Language links http://www.june29.com/HLP/
Grimms' fairy tales
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/archive.html
Winnie the Pooh http://www.machaon.ru/pooh/
Seven Wonders of the World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Medieval history http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
Misc history http://www.usaor.net/users/ipm/contents.html
| http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/re0_cath.htm
Stonehenges Legends
http://www.missgien.net/stonehenge/legends.html
In Parentheses historical papers http://www.inpar.dhs.org/
Bulfinchs Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org/
The Dead Sea Scrolls
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html
Qumran historical site http://www.kalia.org.il/Qumran/
Index of cults http://www.totentanz.de/kmedeke/cults.htm
Heretical speculation
http://www.calweb.com/~queribus/gnosticgnus.html
The esoteric Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani http://www.osmth.org/index.html
Runes and Norse stuff http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/runes/
Extinction level events
http://members.xoom.com/korwisi/ele/english/index.html | http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ | http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/ncar.html
Stephen Hawkings Universe
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
The constellations http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm
Falling into a black hole
http://casasrv.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
Gravity is a push http://www.epicom.com/gravitypush/
Online audiobooks http://www.broadcast.com/books/scifi/
ElecBooks http://www.elecbook.com/eblist.htm
NewMedia Classics http://www.newmediaclassics.com/
Online Books Archive http://docs.online.bg/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Rocket-Library.com
http://www.rocket-library.com/categories.asp
PalmPilot E-Text Ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=pilot_text&id=2&List
Virtual Free Books
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/free.books.am.html
All About Ebooks http://aalbc.com/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

[Food Product]

Looking through the OP and other sites I've been unsuccessful. Is anyone willing to help me find a book titled "For Argument's sake: An Effective Guide to Writing"? The author is Katherine Mayberry. I'd be eternally grateful to anyone able to help.