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I have mixed feeling about online texts. I am really grateful to find texts online (especially if they are downloadable) for books that I am unable to find in print, or primary source documents, or books that are expensive. (I can preview before spending the money.) But I have reservations about believing you can provide a quality, "free" Christian education with internet resources. TANSTAAFL! Read my take on using "Free" online texts for education beginning here. Part 2 here. But especially read the Conclusion. |
Links to Other ResourcesThere are many places online to find age-proven excellent literature. Here are some of the links I use for online literature ebooks and audio. Many of them are free! Use them with discretion. We are recommending the sites because they have some good things to be found on them, not because everything found on them is good. |
Audio booksAudible - audio books for purchase, individually or by subscription plan. Our favorite source for audio books not available for free. Plenty of things we aren't interested in, but a nice selection of classics and such too. Blackstone Audiobooks - probably our favorite audio book recorder. Great readers, many with great English accents. We get them from Audible (above). Libri-Vox - "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" - free audio books, read by volunteers Home School Radio Shows - Living Books for the Ears: Timeless "Classic Tales" brought to life with audio. A homeschool family produces these and offers a free audio every week. You can sign up for this through email or just visit their site weekly. You Need a Story - Robert Green will send your children a free audio story every week by email. Learn Out Loud - audio books and speeches, etc. Large Free section. No doubt a lot of junk to wade through, but you can find a few good literature pieces and several famous speeches and historic documents to listen to. Alcazar Audioworks - Classical books on CD, also available as downloads (for sale) through homeschoolestore. They don't have as many I'm interested in, but they do have Parables from Nature, and the Henrietta Marshall history books, and a couple others of interest. Jim Hodges Productions - Jim records Henty and some Lamplighter and other books, unabridged. |
Downloadable and Online E-TextsBelow, I've listed many free ebook sites I have bookmarked. Probably the first half-dozen are the most helpful and most used. Following that are some specialty sites and other misc. sites I've found what I was looking for at. In addition, you can find some of my most used Reference sites in the sidebar of my Lifestyle Educational through Discipleship blog. I've tried to stick with mostly history and literature sites here. Christian Classics Ethereal Library - the place to find Christian classics, (also Bibles and commentaries,) online. Project Gutenburg - 20,000 free ebooks. The Online Books Page - over 25,000 books - hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library. The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project - children's literature in the public domain. Internet Archive - Free online texts for download. A good place to find out of print, old texts and classics. Making of America books: Michegan U - approx. 10,000 19th century books. Archiving Early America - Primary source documents from the 18th century. Bridgeway Library and Archives - 200 classical novels. Worldwide School Library - educational books online. ICE (Institute for Christian Economics) - free Christian educational/ Biblical worldview resources. "The 90-plus free books and 800-plus free newsletters on this site introduce Christians to the fundamental principles for building a Bible-based Christian worldview." Not old books, many of them also still in print and available for purchase, much on economics. Internet Christian Library - Bibles, Bible study aids, and books. American Journeys - eyewitness accounts of Early American exploration and settlement. Cornell U: Making of America periodicals - Old periodicals, good primary source documents. Read Print - another onine book site (not downloadable). It was just recommended to me - I haven't really used it to see if it has anything the others don't. Internet Public Library - several universities working together to provide resources. Grace Gems.org - Books, quotes, sermons, devotionals, etc. Timeless Truths - free online library, Christian. Kindle Free ebooks of Classics - these are for use on the Kindle. Most of the eReaders also have computer versions, but please realize with those you don't have the benefit of having the eReader, e-ink, but are reading them on your regular back-lit screen. But if you have one of the eReaders, you may want their companion app for your other devises. I have several free eReader apps on my iPod Touch, some specific with free books included. Stanza is probably my favorite though. Free Kindle app for your computer, your iPhone/iTouch, and Blackberry. Free Nook app for your computer, iPhone/iTouch, iPad, and Blackberry. Free Sony Reader app for your computer. |
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We LOVE Audio Books! particularly unabridged classics. The children and I listen to them nearly everyday. They are what fill our iPods/ mp3 players. 
