School Library

Databases of Books

• WWW.AMAZON.COM
• WWW.ABEBOOKS.COM
• WWW.QUESTIA.COM
• WWW.GREATBOOKS.COM
• WWW.BARNESANDNOBEL.COM
• WWW.MLBD.COM
• WWW.OXFORDBOOKSTORE.COM
• E.BOOKSTORE.SONY.COM
• WWW.NLINDIA.ORG
• WWW.NBTINDIA.COM
• WWW.DELNET.NIC.IN

These ebooks are all free, so you can download as many as you want without having to set up a textbook budget.

1. Gutenberg: Project Gutenberg was the first to supply free ebooks, and today they have almost 30,000 free titles in stock.
2. Free-eBooks.net: Besides browsing topics like biography, fan fiction, games, history or tutorials, you can submit your own ebook, too.
3. ManyBooks.net: You can conduct an advanced search, type in a title or author, browse categories or select books by language, from Finnish to Bulgarian to Catalan to Swedish.
4. DailyLit: Get free downloads sent to your e-mail by RSS feed.
5. iBiblio: Find archives, ebooks, tutorials, language books and more from iBiblio.
6. Authorama: This public domain book site has a wide variety of ebooks for free, by Lewis Carroll, Emerson, Kafka, and more.
7. askSam: Search free ebooks and archives in categories like literature, political, government reports, and legal and judicial.
8. Bartleby: Whiel Bartleby charges for some titles, it has a free ebook store here.
9. bibliomania: You will find over 2,000 classic texts from bibliomania, plus study guides, reference material and more.
10. Baen Free Library: You can download ebooks for HTML, RTF, Microsoft Reader and for Palm, Psion and Window CE.
11. eReader.com: eReader.com has many classic lit selections for free.
12. Read Print Library: These novels, poems and poems are all free.
13. Fictionwise: Fictionwise has plenty of fiction, plus nonfiction books, mobile downloads and audio files.
14. ebook Directory: From children’s books to IT books to literature to reference, you’ll find lots of free titles and book packages here.
15. Planet PDF: Planet PDF has made available classic titles like Anna Karenina and Frankenstein for free.
16. Get Free Ebooks: This website has free ebooks in categories like from writing to environment to fiction to business, plus features and reviews.
17. FreeBookSpot: Search by title, ISBN or author, or browse categories like Chinese, Geosciences, hardware, and others.
18. Globusz: There are no limits on the number of free books you can download on this online publishing site.
19. eBookLobby: You’ll find lost of self-help, hobby and reference books here, plus children’s fiction and more.
20. Bookyards: This online “library to the world” has over 17,000 ebooks plus links to other digital libraries.
21. The Online Books Page: You’ll be able to access over 35,000 free ebooks from this site, powered by the University of Pennsylvania.
22. Starry.com: These novels and anthologies were last updated in 2006, but you’ll still find an interesting selection of online and virtual novels.

eBook Readers

Get reviews and product information for all kinds of ebook readers, including the Kindle.

1. E-book Reader Matrix: This wiki makes it easy to compare ebook reader sizes, battery life, supported formats and other qualifications.
2. Amazon Kindle: Learn about, shop, and discover titles for the Kindle here.
3. Abacci eBooks: All the books here are for Microsoft Reader.
4. eBook Reader Review: TopTenReviews lists reader reviews from 2009.
5. List of e-book readers: Learn about all of the different e-book readers from Wikipedia.
6. E-book readers at a glance: This guide reviews and compares the new, cool readers.
7. Free iPhone ebook readers head-to-head: Reality Distortion ranks iPhone ebook readers.

About eBooks

These links will connect you to ebook news, new title releases and ereader information.

1. TeleRead: This blog shares news stories about ebooks and digital libraries.
2. MobileRead Forums: Learn about new ebook releases, clubs and readers.
3. E-book News: Technology Today has made room for a whole section on e-book news.
4. Ebook2u.com: Get the latest headlines about readers, troubleshooting, titles and more.
5. eBook Authors: Get news and releases here.
6. The eBook coach: Learn how to write a successful ebook.

Audio and Mobile

Get ebooks on your iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry, Palm or other mobile device.

1. Feedbooks: You can download books for any mobile device here.
2. Mobipocket: Find ebooks and an ebook reader for PCs, Smartphones, BlackBerry, Palm, Windows mobile and more.
3. Stanza: If you want to read an ebook on your iPhone, use Stanza.
4. Books in My Phone: Read ebooks on a java-enabled phone when you download them here. You can also manage a reading list.
5. Barnes & Noble eBooks: Get NYT titles, new releases and more for your iPhone, BlackBerry or computer.
6. MemoWare: Get literature, poetry, and reference books for your PDA.
7. Audible.com: Here you can download books to your iPod or mp3 player.
8. iTunes: iTunes has audiobooks for iPhones and iPods.
9. LibriVox: Get free audio book files on this site, or volunteer to record your narration for other books.
10. eReader.comMobile: Get the mobile-friendly version of eReader.com here.

Business and Education

Turn to these ebook lists and resources for help with classes and your career.

1. Open Book Project: Students and teachers will find quality, free textbooks and materials here.
2. BookBoon.com: Students can download free textbooks, from economics to biology to study abroad here.
3. Digital Book Index: This site has over 140,000 titles, including textbooks and a pending American Studies collection.
4. Classical Authors Directory: Get lesson plans, audio files, ebooks and more from authors like Washington Irving, Benjamin Franklin and Homer.
5. The Literature Network: Find classics, from Balzac to Austen to Shakespeare, plus educational resources to go along with the plays, short stories and novels.
6. Free-books.org: You can download lots of history and literature books and texts here.
7. OnlineFreeEbooks.net: All kinds of business, hobby, education textbooks, and self-teaching books are available for free on this site.
8. Free Ebooks and Software: Learn how to do your own taxes and more from the books here.
9. The Franklin Free eBook Library: This is a great site for downloading classic literature and poetry, history books and texts, reference materials, and more.
10. eLibrary Business Ebooks: Get emarketing, how-to, and other business ebooks here.
11. Free Business eBooks: This guide has links to all kinds of free business ebooks.
12. Data-Sheet: Data-Sheet finds ebook pdfs.
13. Pdfgeni.com: Type into the search box the type of book you want to read, like business education or vampire fiction.
14. Ebook Search Engine: Simply type in your search and choose to have results displayed as PDFs or Word documents.
15. PDFse: Look for ebooks, especially in science, reference and education, here.
16. Ebook Engine: This engine brings up free ebooks.
17. eBook Search Queen: You can search ebooks by country here.
18. ebookse.com: Browse by category or type your search into the box to bring up your query.
19. Addebook: Free Ebook Search Engine: This tool is Google’s ebook search engine.
20. Boocu: Boocu can pull up thousands of ebooks and digital resources.

Twitter

Keep up with ebook news, new titles, ereaders, and more by following these Twitter feeds.

1. @AnEbookReader: Get tech reviews, accessories news and more for ereaders and ebooks.
2. LibreDigital: This company helps people find what they want to read and watch, on any medium.
3. @e_reading: This feed comments on Kindle news and more.
4. @RogerSPress: Roger publishes ebooks and has been reading them for 10 years already.
5. @DigiBookWorld: Read about the latest trends in digital publishing.
6. @ebooksstore: Follow @ebooksstore for interesting ebook news and releases.
7. @ebookvine: This feed is all about Kindle.
8. @vooktv: Now you can watch books on high-quality video online.
9. @ebooklibrary: This is a feed for anyone who wants to learn more about free ebooks.
10. @ericrumsey: Eric is a librarian who loves ebooks, his iPhone and the Internet.
11. @namenick: Nick Name is an ebook addict and mobile fiction writer.
12. @KindleZen: Get the latest in Kindle news and hacks.

Tech eBooks

Get programming, design and other tech assistance when you head to these ebook resources.

1. FreeComputerBooks.com: Find magazines and IT books for reference and general interest.
2. OnlineComputerBooks.com: Find free computer ebooks on networking, MySQL, Python, PHP, C++ and more.
3. KnowFree.net: KnowFree has mostly tech books for download, plus some business titles.
4. FreeTechBooks.com: This site has downloads in categories like artificial intelligence, functional programming and parallel computing.
5. Zillr: From graphics to Linux to Office to Cisco, you’ll find all kinds of computer and tech books here.
6. Tech Books for Free: From the web to computer programming to science, you’ll find all sorts of tech ebooks here.

Poetry

Find poetry ebooks and collections here.

1. everypoet.com: Read classic poetry on this site.
2. Greatest Poems: Here you will find a collection of 365 of the greatest poems ever written.
3. PoemHunter.com: Download poems in PDF format here.
4. Poetry: You’ll find poetry ebooks for download on this site.

Kids

Share these interactive ebook resources with young students.

1. International Children’s Digital Library: The ICDL is a colorful site devoted to children’s ebooks.
2. ebook88: On this site, there’s a Christmas Bookshelf, and plenty of other kids’ ebook links.
3. Children’s Storybooks Online: Find kids’ storybooks, home schooling materials, and more.
4. Tumble Books: This Tumble BookLibrary features fun, animated, talking picture books.
5. Raz-Kids.com: This is another interactive kids’ book site that helps kids learn to read.
6. Children’s Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc.: Here you’ll find loads of books and translations for kids.
7. Read.gov: From children’s classics to in-progress digital books, Read.gov has excellent ebook resources.
8. Storyline Online: The Screen Actors Guild Foundation presents Storyline Online with streaming videos of actors reading children’s books.

Miscellaneous

From social networking and ebooks to bundles of books, turn here.

1. Scribd: This ebook finder and social network shares what people are currently reading, and lets you upload your own book.
2. Diesel: Diesel has 500,000 ebook store downloads, including custom bundles, mobile downloads and some free titles.
3. eBooks.com: Get NYT bestsellers for $9.99 each, plus all kinds of academic ebooks, non-fiction and more.

CHILDREN'S SITES   

www.kids.discovery.com   

www.foxkids.com      

www.nationalgeographic.com/kid   

 www.4kids.org 

 www.haringkids.com         

www.big6.com/kids    

www.fbi.gov/fbikids.htm    

www.scincenewsforkids.org   

www.familyfun.go.com

 www.thekidzpage.com     

  http://www.ala.org/greatsites

GAMING WEBSITES

www.ign.com   

 www.gamespot.com  

  www.actiontrip.com    

www.justadventure.com  

 www.eurogamer.net    

www.gametab.com 

 www.gamespress.com  

 www.gamesvideovault.com  

www.gamesaholic.com   

 www.miniclip.com 

NEWS FEATURES

www.bbc.co.in     

 www.reuters.com       

 www.news.google.com   

 www.wikinews.org  

 www.ndtv.com     

 www.wired.com           

www.salon.com              

 www.news.rediff.com   

www.guardian.co.uk 

 www.nyt.com       

   www.economist.com       

 www.instapundit.com 

UTILITARIAN 

www.softpedia.com  

 www.driverguide.com 

 www.howstuffworks.com      

www.wikipedia.org  

www.fabmall.com       

 www.ebay.in             

  www.gutenberg.org            

 www.dictionary.com

SPORT

www.cricinfo.com         

 www.sportsillustrated.com            

www.ftracing.net  

  www.uefa.com 

 www.espnstar.com     

   www.sport.yahoo.com                

  www.fifa.com       

 www.chessclub.com

Reference resources:
    
Almanac

a.  Information Please Almanac (http://www.infoplease.com)
b.  Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com)

Books and Reviews
a. Bookbrowse.com  (http://www.bookbrowse.com)
b. New York Times Books (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/)
c. Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
d. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.in/)
e. Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)

Dictionaries & Thesauri
a. Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)
b. Free translation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com/)
c. WordReference.com (http://wordreference.com/)
d. Cliché Site (http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp)
e. Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/)
f.  Internet Anagram Server (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/)

Education
a. FreevideoLectures.com (http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
b. Online Education Database(http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
c. World Resources Institute (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)

General Searches
a. Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/)
b. ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/)
c. Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)

d. Google Things to do (http://www.google.co.uk/landing/thingstodo/)
e. Internet Archive /Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
f.  PolyCola.com(http://www.polycola.com/)
g. Shakespeare (http://nfs.sparknotes.com/) 

Language
a. Modern Language (http://www.sas.edu.sg/library/hs/modern.html)
b. BBC-Learning English(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/)
c. BBC- Grammar & Pronunciation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/)

Poetry
a. The Academy of American Poets(http://www.poets.org/)
b. American Verse Project(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
c. Glossary of Literary terms (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm)

Quotations
a. Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/100/)
b. The Quote Garden (http://www.quotegarden.com/)
c. Quote World (http://www.quoteworld.org/)

Measures, Weights, Conversion
a. Convert-me.com(http://www.convert-me.com/en/)
b. Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com/index.htm)
c. Oanda.com (http://www.oanda.com/) 

Weblinks to award winning books
a. American library Association-YALSA (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm)
b. The Man Booker Prize(http://www.themanbookerprize.com/)
c. Nobel prize-Literature(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/)
d. Pultizer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/)

• Annal of Library Science journal
• Australian Academic and Research Libraries
• Bibliozine the e-magazine for libraries
• British Medical Journal
• Bulletin of the American Society of Information Science and Technology
• Chicago Journal of Theoretical Computer Science
• Development of E-Journal
• E Scholarship Repository
• Electronic Journal of IT in construction
• Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering
• First Monday
• IBM Systems Journals
• IGNOU Information
• Information for Social Change
• Information Research
• Information Technology and Disabilities
• Information Today
• Information Today and Tomorrow
• International Eduation
• International Journal of Education and Art
• International Journal of Education Technology
• International Journal of Future Studies
• International Labour Review
• Internet Journal of Science
• Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship
• Journal of Consumer Research
• Journal of Digital Information
• Journal of Electronic Publishing
• Journal of Information Law and Technology
• Journal of Labor Economics
• Journal of Statistics Education
• Library Philosophy and Practice
• LIBRES Library and information Science Research Electronic Journal
• Materials Research
• Molecular Vision
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Neural Computing Surveys
• Open Access Journals Search Engine (OAJSE)
• Proceeding of National Academy of Science
• Public Opinion Quarterly
• Quarterly Electronic Edition
• Technology Interface
• The Informed Librarian Online
• The Journal of Law and Economics
• The New Scientist
• The Scientist

• Apni Maati.com 
• Geet Pahal 
• Hans 
• Hindi Kunj 
• Janokti 
• Seemapuri Times