Other Languages, Regional & National
African Digital LibraryAddressing third world information imbalance by offering free access to anyone living in Africa, this netLibrary-supported initiative lives at: http://AfricaEducation.org/adlFree African-American e-books E-books by and about African-Americans. All presented in three formats, HTML, palm (.pdb) and MS Reader (.lit). http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-afam.html/
Free Apache e-books You can read these online in English, Apache, or in parallel translation (for the latter two, download the Apache/Navajo font provided onsite). Some tales have intriguing titles, such as Coyote Misses Real Rabbit, The Woman Who Had Horse Power and The Foolish People Acquire Coffee. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/apache/
Free Arabic e-books UAE Yearbook 2004 in Arabic, French & English. Also UAE: A New Perspective. Download each chapter separately, in PDF. http://www.uaeinteract.com/uaeint_misc/pdf/index.asp
Mega-links site for Arab literature & culture. http://www.arabsites.com/links/Arts_and_Humanities/Literature
Belarusian e-books at the Belarusian e-Library. Offers Belarusian literature in Belarusian, plus some English, German & other translations. http://knihi.com/
Free Brasilian e-books More than sixty free titles from 26 authors, including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Available as downloads for offline reading - formats include Word, PDF, RTF and some Palm PDB. http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional
Free Burmese e-books A Collection of Burmese texts, usually as PDFs for the Adobe Reader or in HTML for your Web browser. http://www.burmalibrary.org/show.php?cat=-1/%20
Some free Brasilian Law e-books in Portuguese, plus the Constitution of Brasil in English. http://www.lifestylesbrazil.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index
Free Chinese e-books Supplied by the New Threads Chinese Cultural Society, this electronic library is claimed to be the most complete web archive available of Chinese classic texts. http://www.xys.org/
Free Colombian e-books More than a dozen free Colombian e-books are available in Spanishfrom this site. Historical & literary topics predominate. Formatted for the Adobe Reader. http://www.epigrafe.com/
Free Croatian e-books Classics of Croatian Literature. Major Croatian works up to the beginning of the 20th century, variously as online text, RTF or PDF files. http://www.ffzg.hr/infoz/dzs/popis.htm
Some free works by contemporary Croatian writers, to read online.http://www.elektronickeknjige.com/
Free Esperanto e-books eLibrejo. Over 270 books (both original and translated) in Esperanto. For downloading in .pdf format. (Use the Adobe Reader software). Subjects include fiction, poetry, theatre, religion, classic & historic works, children's literature. http://www.esperanto.nu/eLibrejo
Free Farsi e-books Non-fiction online in HTML across a range of topics. http://www.farsibooksonline.blogspot.com/
There is also a Farsi books Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/farsibooks/
Free French e-booksBibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France). "Sur les 30 millions de pages du fonds numérisé des imprimés de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, dont un peu plus du tiers relève du XIXe siècle, Gallica permet dès à présent d'accéder à quelques 2500 ouvrages numérisés en mode image, complétés par UN extrait de la base " Frantext " du CNRS qui permet la consultation de plus de 250 volumes saisis en mode texte." http://gallica.bnf.fr/
Bibliothèque Universelle (ABU). L'accès libre au texte intégral d'oeuvres du domaine public francophone sur Internet depuis 1993. http://abu.cnam.fr/
Bibliopolis. La bibliothèque des lettres : plus de 2000 œuvres (sciences humaines et littérature) en texte intégral sont consultables. Grâce au logiciel Trevi, vous pourrez effectuer toutes les recherches possibles sur les auteurs, les ,,, (NB: This is now a passworded site). http://www.bibliopolis.fr/
Le Château. Offers more than 100 electronic texts of classical French literature. Offrant aussi Le Salon, rassemblant Des sites traitants de textes et auteurs présents dans le Château. http://www.le-chateau.ilias.com/
Social sciences: many classic and contemporary Francophone social sciences books. In Word, PDF and RTF formats. As of July 2004 the collection offers 954 original works from 361 different authors . Thanks to sociology professor Jean-Marie Tremblay, the University of Québec at Chicoutimi, & the Toulouse Academy of France. http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales
Free German e-books This free page of a German e-book store offers a few titles, mostly as PDF files. http://www.ebooks.at/freebie.html
Ten free German titles http://www.dibi.de/cgi-bin/ebook.storefront
Free Hausa e-books In Hausa and English, from the pen of the late Alhaji Abubakar Imam. NB: These are very large PDF files for the Adobe reader, more suitable for Broadband than dialup. http://www.abubakarimam.com/od/upload/index.php
Free Hebrew e-books Project Ben-Yehuda aims to make the public domain classics ofHebrew literature freely accessible to Hebrew readers, as searchable HTML works. Note the browser requirements indicated in the FAQ. http://benyehuda.org/
Free Hungarian e-books Large list of free Magyar elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt
Free Indian e-books Inaugurated by President of India Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam in late 2003, the Digital Library of India now has more than 29,000 books on the Web. It aims to eventually create a free-to-read, searchable online collection of one million books, predominantly in Indian languages, available to everyone over the Internet. http://www.dli.ernet.in/
Free Italian e-books Antologia della Letteratura Italiana. Novels, poetry, plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary. In HTML, for reading online. Includes some Dante, Boccaccio, St Francis of Assisi, Alessandro Manzoni and Enrico Maria Ferrari. An initiative of Riccardo Scateni. http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html
Free e-books in Italian. Yes, cost is null, zero, niente. Genres include novels, poetry, classics, plays, biographies, horror & fantasy, &New Economy. In MS Reader format only. http://www.ebookgratis.it//
The Manuzio Project, a free Italian online book site. http://www.liberliber.it/
Ozoz. Classic texts in Italian, English and Latin. Available as HTML (versione ipertestuale); RTF (ideale per la stampa dei libri); TXT (puro testo): & for download zipped. http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm
Libri Online Pelagus. Italian classical authors online. Works and biographies of twenty-one authors from Alberti to Verga, including Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Manzoni. In HTML for your web browser. http://www.pelagus.org/it/libri
Free Japanese e-books
Aozora Bunko. More than 2000 works of copyright-free Japanese literature. Various formats available, including HTML, download zips and Japanese e-book format. http://www.aozora.gr.jp/
Free Korean e-booksDigital Han'gukhak. From the Academy of Korean Studies. http://www.koreandb.net/
Kim Mun-gi's Classical Korean literature site. http://bh.knu.ac.kr/~mkkim
Korean Poetry online http://www.poet.co.kr/
Free Myanmar (Burmese) e-bookMyanmar Travel Information 2005 eBook (Myanmar is also known as Burma). Free Innwa Myanmar Font (for Windows) also available from this page. http://www.myanmars.net/download/
Free Polish e-booksPolish literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk. http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm
Polska Biblioteka Internetowa. Includes classic Polish literature among its collections, and Polish translations of famous works from other nations. In HTML.http://www.pbi.edu.pl/
Free Portuguese e-books Virtual Books. PDF downloads of titles from a goodly range of authors. http://virtualbooks.terra.com.br/freebook/freebook_portugues1.htm
Projecto Vercial has a few free books, for downloading as PDFs. http://www.ipn.pt/literatura/
Free Romanian literature e-books Essays, Poetry, Dramas, Translations, Art http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm#Romanian
Free Russian e-booksBiblioteka Agava, more online goodies.
http://www.biblioteka.agava.ru/index.htm
Electronic Publications Library. Works from Chekov, Gogol, Pushkin, Tolstoy and other famousRussian authors. For Reading online in HTML. All in Russian.
http://public-library.narod.ru/
Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books. http://www.lib.ru/
Books in Russian formatted for Palm OS devices in .prc format. http://www.palmpc.ru//
Russian electronic environmental library. http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm
Russian SciFi & Fantasy books available online here, in both Russian & English. Pioneering site, since 1996. http://www.rusf.ru/
Free Sanskrit e-books The Puranas (64), and Sanskrit Proverbs, are available as downloadableMS Word documents from this site. The Purana file is zipped. http://www.dharmicscriptures.org/literature.htm
Free Scottish and Glaswegian e-books From the Glasgow Digital Library (GDL). Currently five books each about Scotland and Glasgow, available online in plain text at: http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlebooks.html
Dictionary of the Scots Language Comprises searchable electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST - covers Scots words in use from the twelfth to the end of the seventeenth centuries) and the Scottish National Dictionary (SND - for the period since). http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/
Free Serbian e-books Projekat Rastko. Biblioteka srpske kulture. The most popular e-library in Serbia and Montenegro. In addition, some Serbian literature is offered in other languages including English, German, French, Spanish, Romanian, Slovenian, Russian, & Ukrainian. http://www.rastko.org.yu/
Free Slovenian e-books Slovenian texts - copyright-free classic Slovenian literature, with a few authorised modern items. Available to read online. http://www.ijs.si/lit/leposl.html
Free Spanish e-booksFree literary unpublished texts, especially in Spanish and Catalan. http://www.badosa.com/
e-autores. Includes Latin American national sites. Audio books also available. http://www.e-autores.com/Free.htm
Free Swedish e-bookseBoklagret Omnibus. More than 230 works from 41 Swedish authors, as PDF downloads. http://www.omnibus.se/eBoklagret
Free Turkish e-booksTürk Öyküleri Sandigi. From Texas Tech University, popular Turkish tales and other literature,in both Turkish and English versions. Download as PDFs for the Adobe Reader 5.0 or above.NB: for reading, study, or citation only. http://aton.swco.ttu.edu/
Sufism & Science
MS Reader format. http://www.ahmedbaki.com/turkce/ebooklar (English versions also available at http://www.ahmedbaki.com/english/ebooks/,with German to come).
Free Ukrainian e-books The Electronic Library of Ukrainian Literature. Classic texts of Ukrainian prose. Available in both HTML and PDF formats.Thanks to Prof. Maxim Tarnawsky at the University of Toronto, Canada, various Ukrainian publishers and other supporters. http://www.utoronto.ca/elul/
Free USA e-books. USA Today's Open Book program. Presented as a separate section on the newspaper's website, Open Book runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all visitors. http://www.openbook.usatoday.com/
Free Vietnamese e-books Vietnamese Literature Electronic Library. http://www.vhvn.com/
Free Urdu e-books Awaz Sayeed's short stories. From the noted author, online in HTML. http://www.awazsayeed.com/awazstories.html/
English-Urdu dictionary "Search Dictionary" translates a word from English to Urdu. Also from Urdu Naskh and Urdu Roman to English (not all browsers supported yet for the latter two). http://www.urduword.com/Home/index.cgi/
Dictionary of the Welsh Language (subject to further corrections) The First edition is available as an 18MB PDF file, suitable for broadband download, You may search this on your own computer using Adobe Reader 5 and above. It is hoped that by mid-2006 a concise interactive version of the Dictionary will be available on the Web. NB: A second edition is a work in progress. http://www.aber.ac.uk/geiriadur/gpc_pdfs.htm#DANGOSEIRIAU/%20
Free Welsh e-books Llyfrgell Owen - a Library of Welsh Language Texts. Works are presented In plain text format. This fledging site lacks funding and welcomes volunteers to enlarge it. Apêl yw hon felly am gydweithwyr, cyfranogwyr a chyfranwyr. http://www.testunau.org/
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