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Project Gutenburg

Free eBooks…There are more than 17,000 free books in the Gutenburg Online Book Catalog. Included in the collection: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Canterbury Tales, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Through the Looking Glass, and The Wonderful Land of OZ

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Microsoft Free eBooks

More than 1500 eBooks available for free.

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University of Virginia Library Etext Center

Over 2,100 publicly available including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children’s literature, American history, Shakespeare, African-American documents, the Bible, and much more.

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