And Speaking of Free Books Online...the Etext Center Collections

While we're on the subject of free books online (see previous post about Authorama), I thought I would share with you the University of Virginia Library's excellent Etext Center, a collection of English language resources. Here's just a small sampling of what's in this very extensive collection:

• The Modern English Collection: "Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, letters, newspapers, manuscripts and illustrations from 1500 to the present, arranged for browsing by author's last name or by category of interest."
• English Verse Drama Database: "more than 2,200 works by around 500 named and over 300 anonymous works."
• Early American Fiction Collection: 158 volumes by 52 authors plus 199 manuscript items and 124 non-text images.

An excellent resource. For more free books, check out Free Tech Books-Free Computer Science and Programming Books on the Web, Free Audio Books, Lectures, and Speeches, or read my reviews of some of the best Web search and SEO books out there in this list of the Top 10 Web Search Books.