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A source of free online vintage homeschool books and curricula.
Google Book Search books are printable if switched to plain text, or page by page by right clicking on image of page(HTML mode only). *Switch to HTML(bottom of main Google Books Menu page) . **Click on the download button at link(upper right on sidebar) to download entire text in PDF.
*(10/10)This has been disabled. Hopefully the HTML button will come back. Books listed here are still linked in HTML. I have been able to change the end of the web address by hand from Text to HTML.
**(12/10)Google Books removed the PDF download button on the overview "About" book pages! To access a download, click on any page of the book to find the PDF download button in the upper right corner.
Project Gutenberg books are downloadable, fully printable, and readable online in plain text and illustrated(HTML version - regular web page). See download tips.
Internet Archives indexes several free book resources, has an excellent search engine, fully printable books, and an online flip-book reader with an audio reader. Readable online as plain text or as HTML(like a regular web page).
Rosetta Project groups vintage illustrated children's books by reading level, easy to read format, and has an audio reader. Not in public domain per their format. Read only, books downloadable for small fee.
International Children's Library illustrated contemporary children's books for reading online only. Audio reader available. Not in public domain.
Christian Ethereal Classics Library downloadable Christian books, readable online in HTML(like a regular web page).
19th Century School Books A collection of 140 school books. Printing pages is allowed; however downloads of the entire book are by permission only.
Munseys Hundreds of free books released under the creative commons. Free to share by linking. Various downloads, pdf available.
Bartleby.com Classic Books Online
2 comments:
HI there
First I want to say that I hope you enjoy the beach immensely! Second, I would like to say thank you very much for your blog. We have 3 young boys in our brood and they will eat up your vintage literature like chocolate frosting on a sugar cookie. Third, I'd like to ask a technical question that you may be able to answer. If I were to purchase a reader device, such as a Kindle, could I download many of the books you reference on the blog to that device for my children to read? I don't want to print and I don't want them to sit at the computer and try to read from a pdf file. Any info you could give would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Hello, thanks so much. We had a great time at the beach, but it is so good to be home again. :)
I found a link that might help...it looks as if you can download public domain books from other sources like Google on a Kindle device:
http://askville.amazon.com/download-books-sources-Kindle/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=9710470
You can also download books onto a thumb drive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive
and then just plug it into a device. We have a mini Asus lap top which we use to read the ebooks. Our 2GB Sansdisk stores dozens of books for us.
Copy and paste the links for information.
I hope this helps.
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