E-book and Audio Libraries

Guide to sources of information in alternative formats (braille, recorded cassettes, large print, e-texts, web audio) accessible by people with print disabilities, those with visual and physical handicaps as well as dyslexia.

Thousands of free, full-text books, poems, articles, short stories and plays ready to read online. Articles and interviews extend the experience and each page has a link to a discussion forum where you can ask questions of other readers or just opine on what you've read. If you want to get deeper into what you're reading, study guides are available. There's also a library of reference books, biographies, classic non-fiction and religious texts.

Search and read a collection of classic books, poetry, plays, and short stories by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and more, as well as select author biographies. Includes a separate section for young reades.

An arts and humanities e-publishing co-op based at Iowa State University. collections include art, architecture, drama, fiction, poetry, history, political theory, cultural studies, philosophy, women's studies and music.

A browseable and searchable archive of volumes of American poetry prior to 1920, being developed as a collaborative project between the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the University of Michigan Press.

Volunteer organization that records books in the public domain and releases them on the Internet as free audiobooks.

A new poem each day, from both well- and lesser-known contemporary poets. Each entry includes information about the poet and the poem's source. Indidual poets and poetry books also are featured.

The first and largest single collection of free electronic books, with more than 25,000 volumes in the online book catalog. Selections range from fables and fairy tales to Shakespeare to reference books.

Internet radio station for English language short stories from around the world.

Regularly updated list of more than 30,000 free books on the Web.