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| Reviewed by Diane Flynn Keith | ||
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| Resource: | Free eBooks | ||
| Provider: | Project Gutenberg | ||
| Summary: | Select from over 20,000 free eBooks in over 50 languages! | ||
| Description: | Many of you may already be familiar with the Gutenberg Project that is composed of a team of volunteers endeavoring to make as many books as possible available online at no cost. Currently, there are over 20,000 books in over 50 languages. Gutenberg makes it easy for you to find just the titles that might interest you with their "Bookshelf" feature. When you get to the site, click on "Bookshelf" in the menu on the left side of the page. A new page opens where you can select from categories such as children's literature, mysteries, detective stories, science fiction, one-act plays and more! Click on any category, and a new page opens with a list of the free books available. These books can be read online, printed, or transferred onto your pda, palm organizer or smart phone. In the Children's Literature bookshelf, access the writings of L. Frank Baum, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Edith Nesbit, and Anna Sewell. Other authors in the bookshelves of Project Gutenberg include Agatha Christie, Andre Norton, Lester del Rey, and Dostoyevsky. Project Gutenberg has also put together a selection of downloadable files of various collections of their most popular e-texts and audio books, that you can copy to CD's and keep offline for posterity. An index of audio books in mp3 format is available too. You can listen online or download them and burn them onto a CD! Imagine your family enjoying one of the following authors during a long ride in the car or around a crackling fire: -Aesop -Hans Christian Andersen -L. Frank Baum -Charles Dickens -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -Benjamin Franklin -Robert Frost -The Brothers Grimm, -Rudyard Kipling -Jack London -Nietzsche -Plato -Poe -Beatrix Potter -Shakespeare -Mark Twain -Jules Verne -H. G. Wells -Walt Whitman -and more! To find the list of audio books, simply scroll down the main page http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page to the "Site Map" menu, and look under the headline "Special Areas." One more thing: Project Gutenberg is always in need of more volunteers willing to proofread one page per day. You or your teen might like to join the team and take advantage of this exciting, fulfilling, skill-building opportunity. |
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| Contributed by: | Diane Flynn Keith, ©Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Diane Flynn Keith publishes the rave-reviewed ClickSchooling® daily ezine with 12,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your homeschooling, save time and money, and have more fun learning with your children, get your FREE subscription to ClickSchooling® now at http://www.homefires.com/free.asp. | ||
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| Orientation: | General | ||
| Subjects: | Language Arts, Literature | ||
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| Ages: | 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18 | ||
| Grades: | All | ||
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| Web Site: | http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page | ||
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