Project Gutenburg

[ArmorOfGod]

We started discussing Project Gutenburg deep within one thread, but I feel it is too important of a link to let it lie that deep. I want people here to see it:

http://www.gutenberg.org/

It has been around for several years and is considered a big deal. That site has 18,000 free dowloadable books that are copyright free.
Here are some of the titles (the top 100):

1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (422)
2. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by Leonardo da Vinci (340)
3. Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases by Grenville Kleiser (306)
4. Kamasutra by Vatsyayana (267)
5. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (247)
6. How to Speak and Write Correctly by Joseph Devlin (247)
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (184)
8. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices by Glover M. Allen and Alfred M. Tozzer (184)
9. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (181)
10. Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot (174)
11. The Best American Humorous Short Stories (174)
12. The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (172)
13. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (166)
14. The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson (162)
15. Project Gutenberg "10K" DVD (158)
16. Ulysses by James Joyce (141)
17. Zadig by Voltaire (134)
18. Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (129)
19. The Valley of Fear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (129)
20. The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce (125)
21. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (109)
22. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (107)
23. Adrift on an Ice-Pan by Wilfred T. Grenfell (107)
24. Forbidden books of the original New Testament by William Wake (106)
25. Blister Jones by John Taintor Foote (105)
26. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (104)
27. Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (103)
28. Dracula by Bram Stoker (102)
29. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (101)
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (100)
31. Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner (99)
32. The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Hell, Complete by Dante Alighieri (98)
33. Modern Spanish Lyrics by Various (96)
34. Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein (95)
35. The Wonderful Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum (93)
36. A Young Girl's Diary by Anonymous (92)
37. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget (91)
38. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas père (90)
39. Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (89)
40. Dream Psychology by Sigmund Freud (89)
41. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (86)
42. Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop (86)
43. Paradise Lost by John Milton (83)
44. Hand Shadows to Be Thrown upon the Wall by Henry Bursill (83)
45. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (78)
46. The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated by Dante Alighieri (78)
47. Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie (76)
48. Project Gutenberg "Best Of" CD August 2003 (76)
49. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (75)
50. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen (75)
51. Germany and the Germans by Price Collier (75)
52. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (72)
53. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (71)
54. War and Peace by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy (71)
55. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose (71)
56. The Art of War by 6th cent. B.C. Sunzi (70)
57. An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic by Anonymous (69)
58. The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version (68)
59. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (68)
60. The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx (68)
61. The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless (68)
62. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe (68)
63. Our Deportment by John H. Young (68)
64. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (67)
65. The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (67)
66. On the Decay of the Art of Lying by Mark Twain (67)
67. Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville (66)
68. Emma by Jane Austen (65)
69. The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (65)
70. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (64)
71. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (64)
72. Meyers Konversationslexikon Band 15 by Various (64)
73. Hamlet by William Shakespeare (62)
74. Best Russian Short Stories (61)
75. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary Poisons by Friedrich Christian Accum (61)
76. Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget (60)
77. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (60)
78. Discours de la méthode by René Descartes (60)
79. Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie (59)
80. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (59)
81. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (58)
82. English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel (58)
83. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (57)
84. The Haunted Hour by Various (57)
85. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (56)
86. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (56)
87. Rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (56)
88. How Women Love by Max Simon Nordau (56)
89. Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud (54)
90. The Science of Fingerprints by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (54)
91. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (53)
92. The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield (53)
93. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (51)
94. His Last Bow by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (51)
95. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (50)
96. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (50)
97. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer (49)
98. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (49)
99. McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book by W. H. McGuffey (49)
100. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (48)

 

[Kacey]

Project Gutenberg is great - here are a couple of other sources for (sometimes) free or reduced price eBooks.

http://www.memoware.com/
http://www.ereader.com/

Just make sure you look at what (or whether) you're paying for a particular item - some are free; some are as much as print volumes. I've also found some great eBooks from my local library's online site.

 

[ArmorOfGod]

Here is something else:
http://www.e-sword.net/bibles.html

That is a link to dowload about 30 different translations of the Bible. Some are different languages and some are different interpretations.
Also, root around the main site there and you can downoad study guides and maps. My pastor tells his seminary students to download Bibles there for class use. It is totally free and an amazing site.

AoG