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This is the list of free books, but there are also books for various low prices, and you can filter by length!</div></div></li><li class=""><div id="s-lg-content-76388256" class=""><span><a href="http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalLibrary_Browse.cfm?category_number=2" target="_blank" onclick="return springSpace.springTrack.trackLink({link: this,_st_type_id: '2',_st_content_id: '76388256',_st_inc_return: this});">Smithsonian Digital Library</a></span><div id="s-lg-link-desc-76388256" class="s-lg-link-desc">Here are online books and a few serials from the Smithsonian. They will work on all e-readers.</div></div></li></ul></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><div id="s-lg-box-wrapper-38309221" class="s-lg-box-wrapper-38309221"><div id="s-lg-box-32580919-container" class="s-lib-box-container"> <div id="s-lg-box-32580919" class="s-lib-box s-lib-box-std"> <h2 class="s-lib-box-title">Free Foreign Language e-books</h2><div id="s-lg-box-collapse-32580919" > <div class="s-lib-box-content"> <div id="s-lg-content-76388258" class=" clearfix"> <p>This list of free international e-books is courtesy of  <a href="http://www.drscavanaugh.org/ebooks/libraries/foreign_language_libraries.htm" target="_blank" title="Dr. Cavanaugh's Educational Technology"><strong>Dr. Cavanaugh's Educational Technology</strong></a> Web site.</p> <p><font face="arial,helvetica"><font face="Arial"><strong><a href="http://www.crs4.it/HTML/Literature.html" target="_blank" title="Antologia della Letteratura Italiana">Antologia della Letteratura Italiana</a></strong><br /> <i>Italian</i>: Novels, poetry, plays & other texts, both classic & contemporary in HTML for reading online. </font></font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.aozora.gr.jp" target="_blank" title="Aozora Bunko"><b>Aozora Bunko</b></a><br /> Over 2000 works of <em>Japanese </em>literature. Formats include: HTML, ZIP, and Japanese e-book.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/" target="_blank" title="Athena Texts Francais"><b>Athena Texts Francais</b></a><br /> <i>French</i>: 10,000 eBooks (French & Swiss Authors) Literature, philosophy, history, economics, & science, etc.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://knihi.com" target="_blank" title="Belarusian e-Library"><b>Belarusian e-Library</b></a><br /> <i>Belarusian</i> literature in Belarusian, with some English, German & other translations.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://gallica.bnf.fr" target="_blank" title="Bibliotheque nationale de France"><b>Bibliothèque nationale de France</b></a> (National Library of France<b>)</b><br /> <i>French</i>: Over 2500 digitized works.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.bibvirt.futuro.usp.br/index.html?principal.html&2" target="_blank" title="Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro"><b>Biblioteca Virtual do Estudante Brasileiro</b></a><br /> <i>Portuguese</i>: Several hundred eBooks</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://vbookstore.uol.com.br/nacional" target="_blank" title="Brasilian e-books"><b>Brasilian e-books</b></a> <br /> <i>Portuguese</i><b>: </b>Over sixty free titles from 26 authors, including José de Alencar, Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis and Afonso Henrique da Lima Barreto. All public domain books or with author permission. Formats include Word, PDF, RTF and Palm PDB.<a href="http://www.dli.ernet.in/" target="_blank" title="Digital Library of India"> </a></font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.dli.ernet.in/" target="_blank" title="Digital Library of India"><b>Digital Library of India</b></a><br /> <i>Indian</i>: Over 29,000 books predominantly in Indian languages.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/search-entry.shtml" target="_blank" title="Gottingen State and University Library"><b>Gottingen</b> <strong>State & University Library</strong></a> (Germany)<br /> <em>German</em>: Approximately 4500 eBooks titles, primarily in German, French, & English, devoted mostly to Exploration & Travel Literature & Mathematics (the English-Language titles are indexed).</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.librostauro.com.ar/" target="_blank" title="Libros Tauro"><b>Libros Tauro </b></a> (Argentina)<br /> <i>Spanish</i>: Several thousand eBooks</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.xys.org" target="_blank" title="New Threads Chinese Cultural Society"><b>New Threads Chinese Cultural Society</b></a><br /> <i>Chinese</i>: Electronic library archive of Chinese classic texts.<b> </b> </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://ngiyaw-ebooks.org/" target="_blank" title="ngiyaw ebooks"><b>ngiyaw eBooks</b></a> (German)</font><br /> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><i>German</i> works with some classic <em>English </em>and <em>Hungarian </em>books also. Formats include: (.pdf),  (.prc), (.lit),   (.tr), and (HTML) for your Web browser. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/archives.html#foreign" target="_blank" title="UPenn links to foreign language libraries"><b>Online Books Page Links to Foreign Language Libraries</b></a><br /> Links to over seventy foreign language libraries with languages ranging from <i>Afghan to Czech, French to Russian, Latin to Yiddish</i>.  </font></p> <p><a href="http://www.ozoz.it/cyberbooks.htm" target="_blank" title="Ozoz"><font face="Arial"><b>Ozoz</b></font></a><br /> <font face="Arial">Classic texts in <i>Italian, English </i>and<i> Latin.</i> Available formats:  HTML ; RTF; TXT.</font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><a href="http://www.rusf.ru" target="_blank" title="Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy"><b>Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy</b></a><br /> Books available online here, in both <i>Russian </i>and<i> English</i> in ZIP and HTML formats.</font></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div> <ul id="s-lg-page-prevnext" class="pager "><li class="previous"><a href="https://library.ciis.edu/howdoi/drm"><< <strong>Previous:</strong> Copyright and Digital Rights Management</a></li><li class="next"><a href="https://library.ciis.edu/howdoi/find_journal"><strong>Next:</strong> Finding a Journal in the Library's Collection >></a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> <div id="s-lib-footer-public" class="s-lib-footer footer container s-lib-side-borders"> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-meta" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med clearfix"> <ul id="s-lg-guide-header-attributes" class=""> <li id="s-lg-guide-header-updated" class="s-lg-h-separator"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">Last Updated:</span> <span class="s-lg-text-greyout">Nov 26, 2024 12:11 PM</span> </li> <li id="s-lg-guide-header-url" class="s-lg-h-separator"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">URL:</span> <span class="s-lg-text-greyout">https://library.ciis.edu/howdoi</span> </li> <li id="s-lg-guide-print-url"> <a href="javascript: window.print();"><i class="fa fa-print" aria-hidden="true" title="Print Page"></i> Print Page</a> </li> </ul> <div id="s-lib-footer-login-link" class="pull-right pad-right-med"> <a href="https://ciis.libapps.com/libapps/login.php?site_id=13057&target64=L2xpYmd1aWRlcy9hZG1pbl9jLnBocD9nPTcyNTY1MiZwPTEwMzM4OTY0">Staff Login</a> </div> </div> <div class="pad-bottom-sm clearfix"> <div id="s-lib-footer-support-link" class="pull-right pad-right-med"> <a href="mailto:syslib@ciis.edu">Report a problem</a> </div> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-subjects" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med pad-right-med pull-left"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">Subjects: </span><span class="s-lg-small bold"><a href="https://library.ciis.edu/sb.php?subject_id=142699">Library FAQs</a></span> </div> <div id="s-lg-guide-header-tags" class="pad-top-sm pad-left-med"> <span class="s-lg-guide-label">Tags: </span><span class="s-lg-small bold"><a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=answers&default_lg=1">answers</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=articles&default_lg=1">articles</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=books&default_lg=1">books</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=ebooks&default_lg=1">ebooks</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=faqs&default_lg=1">faqs</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=full+text&default_lg=1">full text</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=renewing+library+materials&default_lg=1">renewing library materials</a>, <a href="https://library.ciis.edu/srch.php?tag=research&default_lg=1">research</a></span> </div> </div> </div>  <div id="s-lib-scroll-top"> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="jQuery('body').focus();" title="Back to Top" aria-label="Back to Top"> <span class="fa-stack fa-lg" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa fa-square-o fa-stack-2x"></i> <i class="fa fa-angle-double-up fa-stack-1x" style="position:relative; bottom:2px;"></i> </span> </a> </div>  <div id="s-lib-alert" title=""><div id="s-lib-alert-content"></div></div> <div class="footer-styles footer-container"> <div class="address"> <p>California Institute of Integral Studies</p> <p>1453 Mission Street</p> <p>San Francisco, CA 94103</p> <p><a href="mailto:library@ciis.edu">library@ciis.edu</a></p> </div> <div class="copyright"> <p>漏 2024 Laurence S. 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