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I have mixed feeling about online texts. I am really grateful to find texts online (especially if they are downloadable) for books that I am unable to find in print, or primary source documents, or books that are expensive. (I can preview before spending the money.) But I have reservations about believing you can provide a quality, "free" Christian education with only free internet resources. TANSTAAFL! Read my take on using "Free" online texts for education beginning here. Part 2 here. But especially read the Conclusion. |
Links to Other ResourcesThere are many places online to find age-proven excellent literature. Here are some of the links I use for online literature ebooks and audio. Many of them are free! Use them with discretion. We are recommending the sites because they have some good things to be found on them, not because everything found on them is good. |
Audio bookschristianaudio - audio books for purchase, individually or by subscription plan. Also a lot of FREE audios here, including a free audiobook each month. Our favorite source for audio books. Although this is "Christian" audio, and there are plenty of really great audios here, including many classics as well as Christian books, there are also plenty of false doctrine books available here too. (Just so you know we don't endorse everything there.) Using our links to christianaudio helps support Me & My House ministries.
Audible - if you can't find what you're looking for at christianaudio, check Audible. Plenty of things we aren't interested in, (including all the lastest pop novels) but a nice selection of classics and such too. (We are not partners with Audible.) Blackstone Audiobooks - probably our favorite audio book recorder. Great readers, many with great English accents. Many of these are available from christianaudio and Audible. Libri-Vox - "acoustical liberation of books in the public domain" - free audio books, read by volunteers. Home School Radio Shows - Living Books for the Ears: Timeless "Classic Tales" brought to life with audio. A homeschool family produces these and offers a free audio every week. You can sign up for this through email or just visit their site weekly. You Need a Story - Robert Green will send your children a free audio story every week by email. Learn Out Loud - audio books and speeches, etc. Large Free section. No doubt a lot of junk to wade through, but you can find a few good literature pieces and several famous speeches and historic documents to listen to. Jim Hodges Productions - Jim records Henty and some Lamplighter and other books, unabridged. (Our link to Jim at CBD.) |
Downloadable and Online E-TextsBelow, I've listed many free ebook sites I have bookmarked. Probably the first half-dozen are the most helpful and most used. Following that are some specialty sites and other misc. sites I've found what I was looking for at. In addition, you can find some of my most used Reference sites in the sidebar of my Lifestyle Educational through Discipleship blog. I've tried to stick with mostly history and literature sites here. Christian Book Distributors - is our favorite discount bookstore for Christian and home ed books. They now also carry ebooks. They have a few good FREE ones, as well as many others. This is the place to find current Christian books in ebook format. Using our links to CBD helps support Me & My House ministries.
Christian Classics Ethereal Library - the place to find free Christian classics, (also Bibles and commentaries,) online. Internet Archive - Free online texts for download. A good place to find out of print, old texts and classics. This is probably my most used free ebook site. Project Gutenburg - 20,000 free ebooks. Grace Gems.org - Books, quotes, sermons, devotionals, etc. Timeless Truths - free online library, Christian. ICE (Institute for Christian Economics) - free Christian educational/ Biblical worldview resources. "The 90-plus free books and 800-plus free newsletters on this site introduce Christians to the fundamental principles for building a Bible-based Christian worldview." Not old books, many of them also still in print and available for purchase, much on economics. Googlebooks - free ebooks on just about everything. The Online Books Page - over 25,000 books - hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library. The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project - children's literature in the public domain. Making of America books: Michegan U - approx. 10,000 19th century books. Archiving Early America - Primary source documents from the 18th century. Bridgeway Library and Archives - 200 classical novels. Worldwide School Library - educational books online. Internet Christian Library - Bibles, Bible study aids, and books. American Journeys - eyewitness accounts of Early American exploration and settlement. Cornell U: Making of America periodicals - Old periodicals, good primary source documents. Read Print - another onine book site (not downloadable). It was just recommended to me - I haven't really used it to see if it has anything the others don't. Internet Public Library - several universities working together to provide resources. Kindle Free ebooks of Classics - these are for use on the Kindle. Other devices, that don't use a propriety format like Kindle does, don't need a special site like this. ebooks from any of the above sites will work on them. Most of the eReaders also have computer versions, but please realize with those you don't have the benefit of having the eReader, e-ink, but are reading them on your regular back-lit screen. But if you have one of the eReaders, you may want their companion app for your other devises. I have several free eReader apps on my iPod Touch, some specific with free books included. Stanza is probably my favorite though. Free Sony Reader app for your computer. Free Kindle app for your computer, your iPhone/iTouch, and Blackberry. Free Nook app for your computer, iPhone/iTouch, iPad, and Blackberry. |
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We LOVE Audio Books! particularly unabridged classics. The children and I listen to them nearly everyday. They are what fill our iPods/ mp3 players. 
