Online Book Services

From ResourceShelf --

• Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” (new books)
  
• MSN’s Book Search (both old and new)
• The Online Books Page is the place to begin for freely accessible full text books online.
• ebrary Discover offers over 20,000 NEW full text books for free (pay only to print or copy, about $.25 cents/U.S.).
• The World Public Library offers more than 500,000 full text titles.
• The International Children’s Digital Library is amazing for both kids and older children.
• Full text books and cool technology from the Turning the Pages service at The British Library.
• A number of full text collections from The Internet Archive.
• NetLibrary is a service that many libraries offer at no charge, for free, without having to visit the library. Full text, full image without a limit on how much you can read, annotate, etc. The same goes for Safari Tech Books and Books24×7. The latter two services also offer individual subscriptions.
• Finally, the Digital Book Index lists over 137,000 online books with nearly 100,000 available free.