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Books (and Other Materials) in Alternative Formats

Electronic Text

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Author-Specific Sources

Content-Specific Sources

Title-Specific Sources

General and Miscellaneous Sources


Author-Specific Sources

Aesop's Fables
location: University of Viriginia
internet: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/AesFabl.html

Alcoholics Annonymous
internet: http://www.aa.org/?Media=PlayFlash

Some of their materials are available to read on-line, including The Big Book.

Andersen, Hans Christian
internet: http://hca.gilead.org.il/

Bacon, Frances
    The 1601 Essays  http://home.att.net/~tleary/essays.htm

Bunyan, John
location: Acacia John Bunyan Online Library
internet: http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.John.Bunyan/

James, Henry
internet: http://www.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
internet: http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow.html

Mather, Cotton 
internet: http://www.gty.org/~phil/mather.htm

Melville, Herman
internet: http://www.melville.org/

Oakley, James
internet: http://members.tripod.com/~goldenmoments/arab.htm

Golden Moments ©1999 by Jim Oakley, is a free novel on line, especially for aficionados of Arabian horses.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
location: Phil Johnson's Spurgeon Archive
internet: http://www.spurgeon.org/mainpage.htm

Twain, Mark
internet: http://www.lm.com/~joseph/mtwain.html

Uncle Remus
internet: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/remus/cover.html

Wesley, John and Charles
internet: http://gbgm-umc.org/UMhistory/Wesley/

Sermons and miscellaneous writings.

Wilkerson, David
Times Square Church
internet: http://www.tscpulpitseries.org/

        Words of sermons preached by David Wilkerson.


Content-Specific Sources

Alexandria Digital Literature
internet: http://www.alexlit.com/

American Literery Classics Library
internet: http://www.americanliterature.com/MAIN.HTML

American Studies
internet: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CREV/home.html

Answering Islam
internet: http://answering-islam.org/

Cantaria
internet: 
http://www.chivalry.com/cantaria/index.html

Chinook and English Dictionary
location: Poulsbo, WA U.S.A.
internet: http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/shaw.htm

Christian Classics Ethereal Library
internet: http://www.ccel.org/

"The mission of the CCEL is to build up the church by making classic Christian writings available and promoting their use."

Coptic Hymns
internet: http://come.to/CopticHymns

This site has lots of text to read about the history of music in the Coptic (Egyptian Christian) Church, and there are Real Audio files of hymns to listen to.

Cyber Hymnal, The
internet: http://www.cyberhymnal.org/

"This site has over 1,700 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations. You’ll find lyrics, sound, background information, photos, links, MIDI files and scores you can download."

Dibaajimowinan idash Aadizookaanag
internet: http://www.kstrom.net/isk/stories/stories.html

Digitial Traditional Folksong Database
internet: 
http://www.mudcat.org/threads.cfm

Early American Fiction
internet: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/

Filipino Folk Songs
internet: http://www.pinoystuff.com/folklore/songs/songs.htm

Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
internet: http://www.puritansermons.com/index.htm

Reprints of sermons from years gone by.

Geography Quizzes
internet: http://www.mapping.com/Questions.html

Giant Harmonica Songbook, The
internet: http://www.volcano.net/~jackmearl/songs/index.html

The lyrics of over 945 songs (over 300 hymns) are tabulated for harmonica and can be viewed on line.

Hawaii Education Literacy Project [HELP Read]
internet: http://www.pixi.com/~reader1/allbrowser/

They have a program which reads books on line out loud to children, and accesses over 400 classic children's books, in English and Hawai'ian.

Hermeneutika
internet: http://www.bibleworks.com

Bible research materials (multiple versions, concordance, etc.) on CD-ROM.

Internet Christian Library
internet: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-books.html

Internet Classics Library, The
internet: 
http://classics.mit.edu/index.html

Lithuanian Folk Songs
internet: http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/Samogitia/TAUTOSAKA/dainos.en.htm

Logos Research Systems, Inc.
internet: http://www.logos.com

Bible version, study materials, and Christian classics on CD-ROM.  Also Steve Green's MIDI Library with over 3,000 hymns.

Myriobiblos
internet: 
http://www.myriobiblos.gr/

Mojo's Musical Mouseum
internet: http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/index.html

Lyrics of children's songs.

Mullins, Rich: Lyrics to Songs from his Albums
internet: http://www.kidbrothers.net/lyrics.html

Orthodox Christian Page, The
internet: http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/

Perseus Digital Library
location: Tufts University
internet: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/

Project Canterbury
internet: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/

Project Wittenburg
internet: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html

Restoration Movement
internet: http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/restmov.html

St. Patrick's Civil War Song Collection
internet: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Troy/6084/

World Bible Translation Center
internet: http://www.wbtc.com

They have all their Bible translations available here, including at least nine languages. The Bible texts can be read on-line or downloaded as PDF files.


Title-Specific Sites

For Bibles and Bible stories in alternative formats, click here.

Book of Common Prayer (Episcopal)
internet: http://www.missionstclare.com/

Words for morning and evening.  Click on the date of the month to see the text.

In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood  by Dr. Walt Brown
internet: http://www.creationscience.com/

Learning to Read in the Computer Age
internet: 
http://www.cast.org/LearningToRead/

Paradise Lost  by J. Milton
internet: http://home.earthlink.net/~paradiselost/

Pursuit of God, The  by A. W. Tozer
location: Calvary Chapel
internet: http://CalvaryChapel.com/library/Tozer-AW/PursuitOfGod/0.htm

Red Badge of Courage, The  by S. Crane
internet: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/CRANE/title.html


General and Miscellaneous Sources

Abika
internet: http://www.abika.com

Digital versions of books, newspapers, and magazines are available here for downloading; some are free and some cost money.

Alex -- catalogue of electronic texts
internet: http://infomotions.com/alex/

A catalogue of electronic texts on the internet.

Electronic Text Center
location: University of Virginia
internet: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/

Etext Archives
internet: http://www.etext.org/

Magazines, essays, and other publications.  The reglious books here are mainly nonChristian.

International Braille Reserach Center
location: National Federation of the Blind
internet: http://www.braille.org/

Internet Public Library, The
internet: http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

On-Line Books Page, The
internet: http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

Online Originals
internet: http://www.onlineoriginals.com

Digital versions of books are available here for downloading for a fee. The books are available in many formats, for Palm Pilot, Adobe PDF, etc.

Optasia Ministry
internet: http://www.optasiaministry.org/

They are trying to provide Christian books in alternative formats.

Oxford Text Archive
internet: 
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/

Project Gutenberg
internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Sower's Seed Christian Reprints
internet: http://hometown.aol.com/SowersSeed/index.html

Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom
internet: http://www.tnauk.org.uk/

"Provides national and local newspapers and magazines on audio tape, computer disk, e-mail and CD-ROM for visually impaired and disabled people who find reading a strain."

TechAdapt
internet: http://accessiblemediacenter.techadapt.com/

Their Accessible Media Producer is a software program to convert NIMAS files to .rtf or .html formats.

Telegraph Online
internet: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/square/de95/newspaper.htm

Text of several newspapers, designed for downloading by the blind.  Contains many "disability" and "ethnic minority" newspapers.  From England.

Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired
internet: http://www.tsbvi.edu/braille/index.htm

Books in electronic braille formats (MegaDots, Duxbury, ASCII) are available to be downloaded,  but one must sign up for access. 

Texas Text Exchange [TTE]
internet: http://tte.tamu.edu/

"Texas Text Exchange - the first web-based digital library of electronic books for exclusive use by students with disabilities."


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