{"id":193,"date":"2008-09-09T10:24:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmlinfospot.wordpress.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2016-07-20T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:14:31","slug":"ebooks-in-case-of-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/library\/2008\/09\/09\/ebooks-in-case-of-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"eBooks, in case of emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m somewhat of a traditionalist when it comes to reading, that is to say, I prefer paper and ink over plastic and electrons. However, I’m always open-minded and willing to try new things; so, a couple years back, I decided to read Aristophanes’s The Clouds<\/em> entirely on my desktop computer. Sadly, I couldn’t make it all the way through and\u00a0eventually ended up taking the book out of the library.<\/p>\n

However, I did learn something from my experience, namely that it is possible to read large amounts of text entirely online. Personally, I read online all the time, but usually in the form of newspaper\/journal articles and other short passages, though occasionally I have pulled-up a couple chapters from a book, in order to get by for the time being.<\/p>\n

So if you left your book on the bus, or the library doesn’t have it (highly unlikely), or your shipment hasn’t come in from Amazon yet and you need to have a chapter read by tomorrow, then I suggest giving some of the following resources a try. Keep in mind, you don’t need an iPhone or iTablet to read most eBooks, usually you can open them up right from your desktop\/laptop, or even on most SmartPhones and PDAs.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 5 FREE eBook sites, in my humble opinion:<\/p>\n

1.) The Online Books Page<\/a> – An Index of eTexts brought to us free of charge by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries.<\/p>\n

2.) Project Gutenberg<\/a> – There are over 25,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. A grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.<\/p>\n

3.) Bookyards.com<\/a> – Bookyards has a total of 16,045 books, 41,384 external web links, 4,197 news & blogs links, 384 videos, 32,787 Ebook links and access to hundreds of online libraries (800,000 Ebooks) for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n

4.)\u00a0JustFreeBooks<\/a> –\u00a0This\u00a0website is actually\u00a0a specialized search engine (similar to Google, except only searches eBook sites).\u00a0Use the search box to find exactly what you are looking for.<\/p>\n

5.) MemoWare.com<\/a> – Contains over 18,000 “premium” titles. I can’t vouch for exactly what they mean by premium titles, but there are some excellent Literature selections and even some Reference texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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