Books (and Other Materials) in Alternative Formats
Electronic Text
Notes:
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General and Miscellaneous 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.
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
"Cantaria is a library of traditional and contemporary folk songs, mostly from Ireland, Scotland, and England, intended to be an educational tool for propagating the living song tradition through passing on folk songs in a medium where far-flung singers can share songs as easily as if we were all circled-up at a session."
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. Youll 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
Stories by Native American tribes and individuals. Quite a collection, representing many nations and life experiences. Included are stories of true life, traditional tales, and myths.
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
Classes, in the English translations, by Greek, Roman, Chinese, and Persian authors.
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/
"The e-text library of the Church of Greece."
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/
"Scriptures, liturgy, prayers, icons, news, daily Gospel readings; also the St. Pachomius Library of English translations of the Church fathers, acts of the Christian martyrs, proceedings of early Church Councils and lives of the Saints--all in readily accessible format. "
Perseus Digital Library
location: Tufts University
internet: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
Ancient Greek and Roman Texts
Project Canterbury
internet: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/pc/
"Project Canterbury is home on the Internet to Anglican texts. Emphasis is placed on documents expressing the Catholic identity of Anglicanism."
Project Wittenburg
internet: http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-home.html
"Home to works by and about Martin Luther and other Lutherans. Here you will find all manner of texts from short quotations to commentaries, hymns to statements of faith, theological treatises to biographies."
Restoration Movement
internet: http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/restmov.html
This site concerns the history and teachings of the denomination know as the Churches of Christ, Christian Churches, and Disciples of Christ. Some of their older writings are available to be read online.
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.
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/
By Anne Meyer and David Rose.
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
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.
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/
"The OTA works closely with members of the Arts and Humanities academic community to collect, catalogue, and preserve high-quality electronic texts for research and teaching. The OTA currently distributes more than 2500 resources in over 25 different languages, and is actively working to extend its catalogue of holdings." (Not affiliated with Oxford University)
Project Gutenberg
internet: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Their collection of public domain books for downloading is probably the most extensive available.
Sower's Seed Christian Reprints
internet: http://hometown.aol.com/SowersSeed/index.html
Their books are reprints of very old Christian books (from the 1600s) and may be downloaded, or purchased in print.
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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