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E-BooksBooks are no longer just available on paper and via audio on cd or cassette - there is a wide range of e-texts available on the web. |
"Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts)". Associated sites include Project Gutenberg of Australia, which contains e-texts of books in the public domain in Australia.
Electronic Text Centre
"At least 1,800 publicly-available e-books including classic British and American fiction, major authors, children's literature, the Bible, Shakespeare, American history, African-American documents, and much more."
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online provides access to works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers in a single cross-searchable resource. Content includes English and bilingual dictionaries, thesauruses, and dictionaries of quotations, religion, folklore and mythology, medical and scientific dictionaries, historical companions, and political and social sciences reference books.
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Based at Victoria University, this site has a growing collection of e-texts, including the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War.
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1868-1961
Digitised by the National Library, the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand offer a wealth of scientific and historical information and images.
Early New Zealand books
The University of Auckland Library's early NZ book project aims to provide the keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century. As well as the text, illustrations and maps in the books have also been digitised.
NZ Electronic Poetry
Auckland University manages this site - here's a quote from one of our librarians: "[it] has an amazing wealth of up to date information about all of NZ's most important poets, including heaps of biographical info, book covers, selections of their poems and great links to other sites."
Bartleby.com
This site promotes itself as the "preeminent Internet publisher of literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and the intellectually curious with unlimited access to books and information on the web, free of charge".
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