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OZLIT Electronic Texts
Not a library as such, rather an Australian portal to a
world of free e-book resources. Includes a limited number of Australian e-texts.
Courtesy of the leading state portal VicNet.
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozlit/chapt4.html
SETIS (The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service
at the University of Sydney Library) NB: While many texts may be accessed,
please note that a large number are commercially licensed and available only
to users at the University of Sydney.
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/
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Gutenberg Project Gutenberg is the original free digital library
of texts no longer in copyright. So you'll find a great many classic literary
texts here. The full Gutenberg collection now exceeds 5,000 books. The whole
collection represents a monumental effort in unpaid, unselfish, labour since
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The Project Gutenberg Philosophy is to make information,
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of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
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http://www.gutenberg.net
Athena Thousands of mainly French and Swiss-authored
e-texts, across a broad range of especially Literature, Science & the Arts.
In .html &. rtf versions. Also many links to famous works in German, Dutch &
English too. Prepared or linked for the Web by the University of Geneva. Expand
your mind & education here.
http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/html/athome.html
Bartleby.com The Encyclopedia of World History and
The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered at this award-winning
site. Many classic reference works available.
http://www.bartleby.com/index.html
Bibliomania Offers more than 2,000 free Classic Texts,
plus research works in HTML format, readable by your web browser.
http://www.bibliomania.com
Bibliotheca Augustana Latin e-library. Includes Bibliothecae
Latina, Graeca, Germanica, Anglica, Gallica, Italica et Hispanica. "Collectio
textuum electronicorum. AppleMac et Netscape his paginis optimum visum dant.
Ave Gatem et Exploratorem! " (Optimised for Netscape).
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/a_index.html
CELT (Corpus of Electronic Texts) Irish literary,
historical & cultural texts, in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English.
Presented in HTML, with a searchable online database. An initiative of University
College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.
http://www.ucc.ie/celt
Complete Works of William Shakespeare but minus his
poetry at present. The plays can be read either as a continuous text or by individual
scenes. For reading online, in HTML.
http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/works.html
Elfwood Elfwood is a huge, non-profit home to amateur
Fantasy/Sci-Fi art and literature. Elfwood covers a full range of Art, Fiction
and How -To Guides. The site holds over twenty thousand works of literature
& art by over fifteen hundred Science Fiction/Fantasy artists and writers.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se
The E Server Bit of a mind flip might be an exaggeration,
but there is certainly nothing stodgy about this large & contemporary collection
of online intellectual texts & resources. Based at the University of Washington.
http://eserver.org
Electronic Text Collections in Western European Literature
Links site for literary texts in Western European languages other than English.
Languages include Catalan, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Galician, German,
Greek, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Portugese, Spanish & Swedish.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/wess/etexts.html
EuroDocs Primary Historical Documents From Western
Europe. Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations.
http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs
Great Books - Fully Searchable Concordances.
http://www.concordance.com
Internet Classics Archive More than 440 mainly Greco-Roman
texts, with some Chinese and Persian. by 59 different authors. In English translation.
For online reading, some downloads available.
http://classics.mit.edu
Internet Public Library Over 20,000 books available
online- For free! Internet Public Library Mission Statement: " The Internet
Public Library (IPL), is a public service organization and learning/teaching
environment at the University of Michigan School of Information. The IPL Online
Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author,
by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification". For questions about the online
texts collection, or how to search, please see their help page.
http://www.ipl.org/reading/books
MasterWorks of Western Civilisation Access to many
seminal works.
http://mason-west.com/MasterWorks/index.shtml
National Academy Press Read
over 2,500 National Academy science, engineering, and health texts free online.
You can also purchase print copies if you wish. These e-books represent the
cream of U.S. research & policy opinion in these fields. Texts are presented
in a fully-searchable "Open Book" format which also allows for page browsing
& internal links. Open Book" is HTML, & moreover the format is prepared so that
you can send people an individual page reference as an URL. PDFs are also available.
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences provides this site.
http://www.nap.edu
Online Books Page University of Pennsylvania's site offers access to more than 16,000 books online. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Open An Ebook ( An OeB Forum Site) Note that these
books are currently available in Microsoft Reader & Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader
formats only. The relevant software can be downloaded on their front page at
http://www.openanebook.org/free_ebooks.asp,
or from the Software (hyperlink)page on this site.
OeB General Fiction & Non-fiction
http://www.openanebook.org/fic-nfic.asp
OeB Reference
http://www.openanebook.org/reference.asp
OeB Childrens
http://www.openanebook.org/childrens.asp
OeB Educational
http://www.openanebook.org/educational.asp
Oxford Text Archive From Oxford University, this
archive was founded in 1976. High-quality, well-documented electronic texts
for research and teaching. More than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages.
A premium academic resource. Public domain texts are freely available from the
on-line catalogue and may be downloaded in a number of different formats. Some
texts require the user to obtain the written permission of the original depositor.
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk
Pennsylvania State University Electronic Classics Site:
" The Labyrinth" PSU's e-books are presented as .pdf files (Adobe's Portable
Document Format). Read them with the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Established in 1997,
the site offers many classical works of literature in English, plus original
works published by Penn. State Uni.
http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/jimspdf.htm
Perseus Project A great classical digital library
site with Greek & Latin texts, commentaries, an atlas, coin images, art, archaeology
and more.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu
Project Libellus The University of Washington, Seattle,
provides this library of Latin texts, readable in your web browser. In HTML
& TeX (a subset of ASCII). Thirteen classical Latin authors represented.
http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus
Project Runeberg Project Runeberg publishes free
electronic editions of old Nordic literature on the Internet. Since 1992. More
than 200 titles, mostly in Swedish.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
Soil And Health Library Free public library offering
books on holistic agriculture, holistic health, self-sufficient living, and
personal development.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg
University of Virginia Electronic Text Center has
more than 10,000 publicly accessible texts in thirteen languages (& over 164,000
publicly available images). These texts are available to web browsers, but in
addition there are 2,000 + e-books available (in English) for MS Reader & Palm
Reader.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu
Virtual Library "The Virtual Library is the oldest
catalog of the web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of html and the
Web itself. Unlike commercial catalogs, it is run by a loose confederation of
volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they
are expert…" Fourteen primary categories to check out, or use the search engine.
http://www.vlib.org/
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts is a collection of public domain documents from American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. You can search for and display texts from the collection & also search their content, & even create on-the-fly PDFs for offline reading or printing. Prepared, as the name implies, by a librarian. http://www.infomotions.com/alex
Aportis eBook Library Access " tens of thousands"
of free texts in AportisDoc ( "DOC") format, for Palm or Pocket PC device readers.
http://www.aportis.com/library/index.html
Baen Free Library Commercial bookstore offers free
e-books in HTML Ms Reader, Palm, Rocket & RTF formats. Registration requested.
http://www.baen.com/library
Black Mask With a goodly range of free e-books, this
site also endears by offering six e-book formats and a special Australian section.
http://www.blackmask.com/page.php?do=page
Bookrags have 1,500 classic titles available, for Palm or other handheld devices. http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html
ClayCrystal Illustrated e-fiction and poetry. Downloadable
to read offline.
http://www.claycrystal.com/anywhereWds.htm
Ebooks4free Links to" free e-books and manuscripts, historical documents & literature, religion & magik, audio readings and much more.." Multilingual - languages include English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin. The inner search engine actually translates into three languages: English Italian and (surprisingly!) Latin. In plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or as PDFs. http://www.ebooks4free.net
Elegant Solutions Software Company have a great
free e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto:" Ebooks for people
who think". Don't forget to check out Kate's page or the children's page there,
for wonderful classic tales for young & old.
http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm
FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in the FlipViewer
(see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for displaying
albums of images etc.
http://www.fliplibrary.com
Franklin Free Library Thousands of free titles in
text and HTML file formats. Some titles are also available for purchase as Franklin
Reader formatted e-books.
http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary
Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively academic
computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located at Linköping University
in Sweden. Here are a few miscellaneous e-texts they offer.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts
Mary Jo's E-texts for the Palm Her selections include
The Oz Books, a number of classics in literature, & various fan fiction. All
files are zipped for easy downloading.
http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html
Memoware have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning site. http://www.memoware.com
Newton Books Mac folks using the venerable Apple Newton can find an eclectic range of e-books specially Newton formatted, from Iverson Software of Minneapolis, a worthy Independent. See: http://www.iversonsoftware.com/business/ebooks.html
PalmPilot E-Text Ring (80+ sites featuring free
or for-pay texts formatted for Palm readers)
http://www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm
Phoenix Library Based on the Rocket eBook, but now offering titles in several languages & a wide range of formats (Adobe, Microsoft, MobiPocket & Franklin in addition to the Rocket/ REB reader editions) http://www.phoenix-library.org
Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices. http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library
Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html Only in Microsoft Reader however.
StoneGarden Net Publishing Free or inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required. http://www.stonegarden.net
Tale Wins Marleen Roberts site for authors & readers http://www.talewins.com
Webooks.com eLibrary Links to over 2,200 free e-books in html, for reading online. In sixteen broad categories, also includes journals & magazines. http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm
NB: Many commercial e-bookstores also offer a number of free e-books.
World - Other Languages,Regional and National
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African Digital Library Addressing third world information imbalance by offering free access to anyone living in Africa, this netLibrary-supported initiative lives at: http://AfricaEducation.org/adl
Free Arabic e-books
UAE Yearbook 2002 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
Free Australian e-books
http://www.e-publishingaustralia.com
Free Belarusian e-books at the Belarusian eBooks
Library. Offers Belarusian literature in Belarusian plus 38 other languages,
and literature from around fifty other languages translated into Belarusian.
http://www.mylib.com/index-eng.shtml
Free Brazilian e-books
http://www.supervirtual.com.br
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
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http://www.dtnets.com/index.htm
Free Croatian e-books Downloadable e-books
http://www.strijelac.hr/e-knjige.htm
Free French e-books
Bibliothèque 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
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
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 Hungarian e-books Huge list of free Magyar elektronikus könyvtárak (Hungarian e-libraries) available at http://www.mek.iif.hu/porta/virtual/magyar/ekonyvt
Free Italian e-books The Manuzio Project, a free
Italian online book site.
http://www.liberliber.it/home/index.asp
Free Korean e-books
Digital 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/%7Emkkim
Korean Poetry online
http://www.poet.co.kr/index.html
Free Polish e-books Polish literature online, thanks to the University of Gdansk. http://monika.univ.gda.pl/~literat/index.htm
Free Portuguese e-books This site from M. Lopes offers a library of e-books in Hiebook & Rocket eBook formats http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/mlopesebooks/principal.htm
Free Russian e-books
Moshkov's Library. Hundreds of free e-books.
http://www.lib.ru
Russian Classical Library for Foreign Readers. In Russian
& English.
http://ruslit.virtualave.net
Russian electronic environmental library.
http://www.ecoline.ru/books/index.htm
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 Spanish e-books
Free 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 Vietnamese e-books Vietnamese Literature Electronic
Library.
http://www.vhvn.com
Free Literary e-books " E-books of criticism, essays, poetry, dramas, translations in many languages which can be downloaded, printed, read for free." In English, French, Portugese, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian & Spanish. Italian, Esperanto & Arabic also feature. http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooksLiterature.htm
USA Today's Open Book program This U.S. newspaper offers free e- books too. Presented as a section on the newspaper's site. Open Book runs original stories from well-known novelists and offers them free to all visitors. http://www.openbook.usatoday.com
Miscellaneous/ Individual Topics
British Women Romantic Poets
Project E-text editions of poetry by British and Irish women written (not necessarily
published) between 1789 and 1832, a period traditionally known in English literary
history as the Romantic period. A digital initiative of the University of California,
Davis, from the Shields Library. Available in HTML & SGML.
http://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/BWRP
Children's/Young Adult Books
A variety of famous classic titles.
http://www.bookspot.com/onlinebooks/childrens.htm
Comics
Free
daily comic strips with back archives. Related goodies for sale. They have Ginger
Meggs!
http://www.comics.com
Lots of e-freebies from DC.
http://www.dccomics.com
Computing Betabooks. Allows computing professionals
to view partial and sometimes complete text versions of selected emerging technology
titles online. Bet@Books viewing is free, & invites comments and feedback.
http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/betabooks
English literature Classics Over two hundred titles, in PDF format, versions for PC/Mac or for Palm, Visor & PocketPC. Free, with paperback versions also available for purchase. http://www.elibron.com/english/lists/free_ebook.phtml
Mathematics
The Electronic Library of Mathematics contains free online journals, article
collections, and monographs in the field of mathematics. View on-line or download
as .pdfs for offline use.
http://www.emis.de/ELibEMS.htm
Collection of more than thirty e-books. Mostly in English,
with some in French, Romanian, Russian. As .pdfs for Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/eBooks-otherformats.htm#E-Books%20of%20Mathematics
Medicine
Site dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical books over the
Internet. 550+ books to read online in English, French, German & Spanish, plus
a few titles in Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Romanian, Russian &
Turkish. http://freebooks4doctors.com
Military/ History
Hermilitary.com offer a selection of historical,
military & literary titles as .pdf downloads to read offline. These range from
Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" (whose precepts can equally apply in civil affairs)
to Tolstoy's "War & Peace", & Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage". Also
offer the famous" CIA World Factbook", adult classic fiction & classic children's
books too. The site also supplies Flipbrowser as a download, so you can view
their featured books online in an enhanced format.
http://www.hermilitary.com/bookclub/ebook.htm
Philosophy The Valdosta State University Virtual
Library of Philosophy. Brings together a wide range of Philosophy Resources.
http://www.valdosta.peachnet.edu/~rbarnett/phi/resource.html
Technical Reports Online
"The Virtual Technical Reports Center". Links to technical reports, preprints,
reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds, as either
full-text reports or searchable extended abstracts
http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html
The USENET Cookbook
Main dishes, Appetizers & snacks, Bread/pasta, Beverages, Cookies or cakes,
Sauces, Salads, Soups, Deserts, Vegetable dishes etc. Vegetarian alternatives
offered. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted
provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage.
Copying is by permission of the USENET Community Trust or the original contributor.
(Copyright (C) 1987 USENET Community Trust).
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/main.html
e-Cookbooks.net
Some 18 free samples are available from this commercial site, as pdfs for
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
http://www.e-cookbooks.net
Sacred Texts & Religion
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian Pantheon Names, descriptions & other information on
the gods of old Egypt. http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/egypt-gods-faq.html
Egyptian Book of the Dead - The Papyrus of Ani. Trans. into English by Sir E.A. Wallis Budge. http://www.lysator.liu.se/~drokk/BoD/toc.html
Links to other Egyptology resources on the Web
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~drokk/BoD/links.html
Asian Classic Texts
The Asian Classics Input Project works to preserve disappearing books containing
the great ideas of the Eastern half of humanity, and to make these books and
ideas accessible to the world at large. Downloadable mainly as zipped text &
rtf files. Includes ACIP Release V: World.Wide.Wisdom. Over 200 previously unreleased
titles from the classics of traditional Asian philosophy in the Tibetan language.
http://www.asianclassics.org/
Bahai
Bahá'í Sacred Writings and other books, articles etc. To read online, or downloadable as text, rtf or Word documents. http://www.bahai-library.org/
Buddhism
BuddhaNet These Buddhist texts may be read online
with Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe eBook Reader; texts are presently available
in English (UK & US variants), French, German, Spanish & Japanese. The texts
may also be downloaded as zipped .pdf files to read offline.
http://www.buddhanet.net/ebooks.htm
Buddhist Reading Room Sutras & other content for online reading. In American English. Some texts also available for download as ZIP format archives (IBM / Windows users) or StuffIt format (Macintosh users).http://www.buddhistreading.com/
Online Dharma Libraries
"Authors and/or publishers of the works have granted us permission to make these
electronic editions freely available to the public. In the Buddhist tradition,
this is the practice of dana, or "freely-offered generosity."…Extensive collection
of Buddhist texts for downloading.
http://www.dharmanet.org/files.html
Sacred Texts: Buddhism
In English. Includes modern (early 20th century) compilations of the Buddhist
Canon, plus texts of Northern & Southern Buddhist schools. http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/
Cao Dai
Centre for Studies in Caodaism (Sydney)
Online full text Cao Dai scriptures & books, articles, images,& audio-visuals,
in Vietnamese, French & English. Includes information on the history, organization,
philosophy and practice of Caodaism. An Australian archive in HTML, thanks to
Cong-Tam Dao of the University of Sydney.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10190
Christianity
Old & New Testaments of the Bible formatted for
Palm Reader
http://www.peanutpress.com/free.cgi
Individual or collected books from the King James Bible, in AportisDoc (DOC) format http://www.aportis.com/library/bible/index.html
The Holy Bible (King James version) in HTML*
http://www.bartleby.com/br/108.html
The Bible, text search of New International Version,
in 19 languages.
http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NIV
The Bible, text search of Revised Standard Version http://www.hti.umich.edu/r/rsv/
The Bible, text search of New American Standard Version
http://www.biblegateway.com/cgi-bin/bible?version=NASB
The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version, in HTML
http://www.catholicfirst.com/TheFaith/Bible/DRB/BibleDRV.htm
New American Bible, from United States Conference
of Catholic Bishops, in HTML
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/
Christian Classics Electronic Library for the Palm
Pilot
http://members.aol.com/PilotCCEL/
Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Huge collection of significant Christian works. Especially in English,
but with some Russian & Chinese e-texts, plus a few in Latin, Greek, French,
German, Czech, Italian & Spanish. Many In ThML (Theological Markup Language,
an XML variant), or in HTML, Digital facsimile, plain text, Open EBook, Palm
DocBook, or Microsoft Reader formats. Some MP3 audio files also. From Calvin
College, Grand Rapids, Missouri.
http://www.ccel.org
Ethiopian Coptic Texts Also includes valuable links for Biblical scholars http://anes235-1.ff.cuni.cz/ethiopian/INTRO.HTM
Ecclesiastical calendar conversion. Warning - this gets complicated. http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/woolley/calconv.html *
Desiderata - Meaning, that which is to be desired. Much concentrated & timeless wisdom here. http://artandpoetry.com/art/sherrie/desiderata.html
Epic of Gilgamesh Summary of the ancient text, this version written by the oldest known named human author. Written c. 2000 B.C. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM
Hinduism
Bhagavad-Gita. In audio versions in16 languages, or as HTML in English only. http://www.bhagavad-gita.org/
Upanishads - The Texts Available individually online, or downloadable gathered as one PDF file. http://sanatan.intnet.mu/upanishads/upanishads.htm
Upanishads - Transliteration Key
http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/avhp/upanishad.html
Islam
The Koran English translation, downloadable as text
or html document.
http://pdreader.org/details.asp?type=1&value=3434
The Koran An electronically scanned version of M.
H. Shakir's English translation of the Holy Qur'an, as published by Tahrike
Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in searchable SGML form.
http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html
The Koran in the original Arabic, downloadable as
a full e-reader software program with support for various fonts and font sizes,
2D animations, MP3 audio sounds, search engine, text color, underline color,
tags etc, as prepared by Samir Alicehajic of Zagreb, Croatia. English and German
translations are included in the "Koran 6.51" version software. Bosnian, Dutch,
French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese & Turkish translations which may be imported
into the above software are also available. An online html English Koran translation,
plus Hadiths (sayings of the Prophet) also feature on this site.
http://www.yildun.com
Sufism, the Way of the Heart "The Ways to God are as numerous as the breaths of humankind." -Sufi Tradition http://www.spiritweb.org/Spirit/sufism.html
Judaism
The modern translation of the Torah that you will find online here was published by the Jewish Publication Society in 1985. There are also versions of the Nevi'im & Ketuvim, & links to Readings.
NB: The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is roughly
equivalent to the Christian Old Testament, and has three parts, Torah, Nevi'im
& Ketuvim. The Torah, in the narrow sense, (the Written Torah) is the
Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. The Nevi'im are the Prophets
- Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets. The
Ketuvim is the Writings, including Psalms and Proverbs, Esther and Ecclesiastes,
Daniel, Chronicles, Ruth, and the love poetry of Song of Songs. If you take
the T (from Torah), the N (from Nevi'im) and the K (from Ketuvim), and put them
together in one word, you have TNK. Add some vowels and it becomes the Tanakh.
Text versions of the Torah, Nevi'im & Ketuvim available at:
:http://www.jewish.com/torah/
Jewish Torah Audio. Hundreds of hours of commentary,
stories, poetry etc, all in RealAudio or downloadable audio format. Describes
itself as "The first world-wide Jewish audio since Mount Sinai".
http://www.613.org
Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) The Book of Mormon http://www.paganlibrary.com/etext/mormon/index.php
Myths & Legends
Encyclopedia Mythica
http://www.pantheon.org/mythica
Sprituality (various)
Includes Theosophical classics online, Yoga articles, mysticism, astrology &
much else.
http://www.spiritweb.org/
Taoism
The Tao Te Ching online, in English, Chinese & German
translations.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/ttc-list.htm
The I Ching in English & Chinese, HTML.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/iching.htm
Zen/ Zen Buddhism/Western Zen
The Electronic Bodhidharma, Site in English and Japanese,
volumes in text format.
http://www.iijnet.or.jp/iriz/
Zen Fun http://www.geocities.com/Athens/ithaca/3474/page1.html
The Tao Of Programming & much else
Modern internationalism -from Russia with love, in English, some classic
& Modern Zen texts.
http://klein.zen.ru/english/
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance In HTML
http://www.aoe.vt.edu/~ciochett/lit/zen.html
Zoroastrianismism
Zoroastrian Archives. Provide the complete text of the
Avesta, the most ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism, as well as many Pahlavi
scriptures. It also includes information about the Avestan language, and other
useful information for students of Zoroastrian religion.
http://www.avesta.org/avesta.html
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