Spread Literacy with Free Book Downloads

January 30, 2014

One of the most wonderful things about the Internet is that it brings countless opportunities to access books. There are many Web sites solely dedicated to house free books, but who wants to spend the time sifting through Google search results when you can be reading? The Just English blog took the work out of finding these digital literature warehouses in the post, “Free Books: 100 Legal Sites To Download Literature.”

Rather than being a basic list, the post categorizes the book Web sites into different groups. Included on the list are classic English literature, textbooks, math, science, children’s books, philosophy, religion, plays, modern fiction, romance, and fantasy, foreign language, history, culture, rare books, arts and entertainment, mystery, and poetry.

One of the most interesting Web sites on the list is called Banned Books and it provides the full text and historical context of why these books were challenged. Banned Books has a late 1990s design style, but the information is still sound. The children’s books Web sites are also noteworthy, because they include books with illustrations. The illustrations are usually left out, because of file size and download speeds. The Internet may be bad for print, but it does encourage literacy.

Whitney Grace, January 30, 2014

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under News

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.