E-texts are books that have been formatted to be read or downloaded from the Internet. Below are a list of sites which make hundreds of titles available free through their web site. These sites were recommended by Closing the Gap, Southwest Human Development and CAST.

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• AudioBooksForFree.com
• bibliomania
• Classic Stories Online (stories in streaming MP3 format-click on the button to the left of the title to start)
• greekmythology.com (full text versions of classics such as The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer.)
• Institute for Learning Technologies (some academic texts, esp. philosophy)
• The Internet Public Library
• Online Children's Stories (includes folk tales from many cultures)
• Project Gutenberg
• Page by Page Books - choose from a long list of authors and titles, including presidents and their speeches.
• The Universal Library
• The Free Library - click on an author's name to be taken to their biography and a list of available titles.
• University of Virginia Electronic Text Center
• Onlinenewspapers.com - search from thousands of newspapers from all over the world.