Benji's Books

Free E-books

Extinction level events

http://members.xoom.com/korwisi/ele/english/index.html

http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/

http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/ncar.html

Stephen Hawkings Universe

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html

The constellations

http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm

Falling into a black hole

http://casasrv.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml

Gravity is a push

http://www.epicom.com/gravitypush/

Online audio books

http://www.broadcast.com/books/scifi/

ElecBooks

http://www.elecbook.com/eblist.htm

NewMedia Classics

http://www.newmediaclassics.com/

Online Books Archive

http://docs.online.bg/

Internet Public Library

http://www.ipl.org/

Rocket-Library.com

http://www.rocket-library.com/categories.asp

PalmPilot E-Text Ring

http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=pilot_text&id=2&List

Virtual Free Books

http://www.virtualfreesites.com/free.books.am.html

All About Ebooks

http://aalbc.com/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

Literature stuff

http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk:8080/

http://www.swan.ac.uk/uwp/lit.htm

Octavo books

http://www.octavo.com/

Project Gutenberg - books and texts

http://www.promo.net/pg/

Project Runeberg - Scandinavian in books and texts http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/katalog.html

The Elements of Style

Misc reading material

http://dali.orgland.ru/tcd/

http://www.ud.se/english/press/pdf_publ.htm

Books and texts

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html

http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/

http://www.nakedword.org/

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/

http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html

Language links

http://www.june29.com/HLP/

Grimm’s' fairy tales

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/archive.html

Winnie the Pooh

http://www.machaon.ru/pooh/

Seven Wonders of the World

http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Medieval history

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html

Misc history

http://www.usaor.net/users/ipm/contents.html

http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/re0_cath.htm

Stonehenge’s Legends

http://www.missgien.net/stonehenge/legends.html

In Parentheses historical papers

http://www.inpar.dhs.org/

Bulfinchs Mythology

http://www.bulfinch.org/

The Dead Sea Scrolls

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html

Qumran historical site

http://www.kalia.org.il/Qumran/

Index of cults

http://www.totentanz.de/kmedeke/cults.htm

Heretical speculation

http://www.calweb.com/~queribus/gnosticgnus.html

The esoteric Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani http://www.osmth.org/index.html

Runes and Norse stuff

http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/

http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/runes/

O'Reilly online

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/

Computer books and manuals

http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html

http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/

http://www.fore.com/support/manuals/home/home.htm http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/webbuy/freebooks.html

The Network Book

http://www.cs.columbia.edu/netbook/

Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc links

http://www.extrema.net/books/links.shtml

Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc fiction

http://194.58.154.90:4431/enscifi/

Pimpas online books (Indonesia)

http://202.159.16.55/~pimpa2000

http://202.159.15.46/~om-pimpa/buku

Security, privacy and cryptography

http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html

http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/

My own misc online reading material

http://www.eastcoastfx.com/docs/admin-guides/

http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/reading/

Computer books

http://solaris.inorg.chem.msu.ru/cs-books/

http://sweetrude.net/~cab/books/

http://alaska.mine.nu/books/

http://poprocks.dyn.ns.ca/dave/books/

http://58-160.skarland.uaf.edu/books/

http://202.186.247.194/~ebook/

http://hooligans.org/reference/

Linux documentation

http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html

FreeBSD documentation

http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/

Sun documentation

http://osiris.imw.tu-clausthal.de:8888/

http://uran.vvsu.ru:8888/

SGI documentation

http://newton.unicc.chalmers.se/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb;td=2

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi

IBM Online Redbooks

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/

Digital UNIX documentation http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40D_HTML/V40D_HTML/LIBRARY.HTM

File system Hierarchy Standard

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html

http://www.linuxbase.com/

UNIX stuff

http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/~unixhelp/index.html

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/ http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html http://www.franken.de/users/lorien/unix.html

http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~milun/unix.programming.html

Programmers reading

http://www.programmersheaven.com/

http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~alanf/se_proj97/

Programming Pearls 2nd edition

http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/

C stuff

http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/NewCcourse/ccourse.html

http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html

http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/c++programdesign/slides/ http://www.icce.rug.nl/docs/cplusplus/cplusplus.html

Perl stuff

http://www.webdesigns1.com/perl/ir.html

http://www.ictp.trieste.it/texi/perl/perl_toc.html

http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/

http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/

Java stuff

http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/ http://polaris.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/CIS200/ http://www.daimi.au.dk/dProg1/java/langspec-1.0/index.html

Lisp stuff

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/mirrors.html

http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Villamil/lisp/

Ada stuff

http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/

Database reading

http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/index.htm

SQL stuff

http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/E.Ferneley/SQL/index.htm http://www.daimi.au.dk/~oracle/sql/index.html

Visual Basic stuff

http://www.vb-world.net/books/

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

X Window System

http://tronche.com/gui/x/

http://www.cen.com/mw3/refs.html

http://www.gaijin.com/X/

GTK and Gnome stuff

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html

QT and KDE stuff

http://www.troll.no/qt/

http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/index.html http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/tutorial.html

Corba stuff

http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/

TCP/IP info

http://www.tunix.kun.nl/ptr/tcpip.html

Misc programmers reading

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chilimbi/Pubs.html http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~nromano/spring99/readings.htm

Some useful tech articles

http://www.sysadminmag.com/

http://www.dotcomma.org/

Considering Hacking Constructive

http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_2/gisle/index.html

Eric's Random Writings

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/

IBM's History

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/story/text.html

Electronic Publishing

http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholtz/ElectronicPublishing.html

Digital processing

http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm

The Hardware Book

http://sunsite.auc.dk/hwb/

Hackers' Hall of Fame at Discovery Online

http://www.discovery.com/area/technology/hackers/hackers.html

Symbols and signs and ideograms and stuff

http://www.symbols.com/ Dictionaries http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/oed.html

http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/ahd.html

http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/columbia.html http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/thes.html http://www.eb.com:180/

Bigtext - illustrated books and manuals for DOS http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/oldfav.html#bigtext

Breeze - a complete text system for Windows http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html#brzwin

Subject Area Books

Science

History of Science, V1 Henry Smith Williams

Faraday As A Discoverer, John Tyndall

First and Last Things, H. G. Wells

Physics

Five of Maxwell's Papers, James Clerk Maxwell

The Strange Life of Nikola Tesla, Nikola Tesla

The Story Of Electricity John Munro

Chemistry

American Handbook of the Daguerreotype, Samuel D. Humphrey

The Chemical History of A Candle, Michael Faraday

Periodic Table Of The Elements

Periodic Table of Comic Books (Use of Elements): http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/

Biology

Bird Neighbors, Neltje Blanchan

The Naturalist on the River Amazons, Henry Walter Bates

The Life of the Caterpillar, by J. Henri Fabre: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/jhf/cater.html

The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Charles Darwin

The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin'

Your Genes, Your Choices: Exploring the Issues Raised by Genetic Research written by Catherine Baker: http://intersect.uoregon.edu/genes/default.html

Earth Science

The Student's Elements of Geology, Sir Charles Lyell

Let's Collect Rocks & Shells, Shell Oil Company

VOLCANOES, Robert I. Tilling

The Yosemite, John Muir

Astronomy

Satellite Story, Jocelyn Bergen: http://www.archive.org/details/SatelliteStory

Children's

Echo the Bat: http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/echohome.html

Science Fiction

AntiGrav Unlimited, Duncan Long: http://www.baen.com/library/dlong.htm

Teaching

Science for All Americans: http://www.project2061.org/tools/sfaaol/sfaatoc.htm

Inquiry and the National Science Standards: http://books.nap.edu/html/inquiry_addendum/index.html

Libraries

Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/

Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org

Baen Science Fiction: http://www.baen.com/library/

USGS printing office http://pubs.usgs.gov/products/books/gip.html

National Academy Press: http://www.nap.edu/

International Children's Digital Library: http://www.icdlbooks.org:8080/servlet/SearchCategory?id=128

Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org ï¿½organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.ï¿½

Britannica.com http://www.britannica.com users can simultaneously search the world's most respected encyclopedia,

Electric Library http://www.elibrary.com has full-text documents and images concerning: magazines, maps, books and reports, newspapers and newswires, radio, TV and government transcripts, and pictures.

ElectricLibrary's Encyclopedia.com http://www.encyclopedia.com more than 14,000 free articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia (3rd ed.).

Encarta Online: http://encarta.msn.com/
An abridged online version of Encarta Encyclopedia. Search the article titles or the full text.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian http://www.si.edu/resource/faq A resource for teachers and students with thousands of sources on hundreds of topics.

FreeFullText.com: http://www.freefulltext.com/
Provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by anyone for free (though some may require free registration).

Information Please http://www.infoplease.com Offers online almanacs, encyclopedias, and dictionaries (links under ï¿½Sourcesï¿½).

The Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org a resource for a variety of collections.

Library Spot http://www.libraryspot.com A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.

The U.S. Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov Web site is the Internet location of the largest library in the world. Comprised of approximately 115 million items in virtually all formats, languages, and subjects.

WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org
Book search tool that searches the catalogs of libraries near you to find the books that you want to check out and read.

http://drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/libraries/

http://app.cul.columbia.edu:8080/exist/scriptorium/browse/browseMaps.xml?field1=authors

http://any2djvu.djvuzone.org/ OCR Site

http://pub9.bravenet.com/forum/714589480

http://groups.google.com/group/libraryscan