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DAISY Talking Books

To comply with Canadian law, access to Talking Books and VisuNET Canada resources is restricted to residents of the City of London who have an inability to use standard printed materials because of perceptual, physical or learning impairment. Eligibility is defined by the Canadian Copyright Act and can include reasons such as blindness, neuromuscular diseases or dyslexia. Find out more.

Websites

Bartleby: great books online
Thousands of online classics in fiction, reference, poetry and non-fiction.

Classic Reader
Offers "a large collection of free classic books, plays, and short stories by authors such as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others". Browse by author or title, or search for a specific work. All features are free, but some require free registration.

Digital Book Index
Provides an index, by subject, to e-books found on hundreds of Web sites, most of which are free.

Online Books
A listing of over 20,000 books online, mainly English language but includes a selection of non-English language texts. Classics, prize winners and banned books.

Online Literature Library
Full-length texts of classic English literature.

Project Gutenberg
Provides access to 13,000 online texts.

UK Short Stories
A library of contemporary UK short fiction, by various authors, freely available to download.

Web-published Fiction
Google's directory of Web-published fiction.