Complete Books Online--and free!

Okay, we all know the library is great, wonderful, best thing that's ever happen to civilization. However, sometimes a title you need for school is just not available, and you need it now. The following sites offer the complete text of many classic books being assigned in classroom all over the country.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
As of January 2006 there were 17,000 titles available, some in MP3 form. Titles are added daily.

Classic Reader
http://www.classicreader.com
In addition to full text, this site offers author biographies and portraits.

Alex Catalog of Electronic Texts
http://www.infomotions.com/alex2/
This site currently only offers 15 authors, but the titles are available in a number of formats including: Newton Paperback, PalmPilot DOC or eReader, PDF, Rocket eBook, or raw TEI/XML.

University of Virginia--Electronic Text Center
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/
Offering over 2,100 ebooks from the UofV Etext Center, this site includes British and American fiction, major authors, children's books, American history, African-American document, the Bible and more.