Project Gutenberg

[Challenger78]

Collection of Free resources and Ebooks.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Rosnet]

Also:

http://manybooks.net/ - Has many books from Project Gutenberg and more. Let's you choose from different formats for books you download - HTML, PDF, PS, etc.

http://www.digitalbookindex.org/about.htm - An extensive index of links to books ranging various subjects Advertising to Zoology, many free, some not.

http://www.freebookcentre.net/ - Collection of eBooks. Mostly on computer-related subjects, but many on Mathematics, and some in Biology

[cosmictraveler]

As well as:

The Library Of Congress

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.loc.gov/&ei=vnFfSbXdFoia8wSmhdSHDQ&usg=AFQjCNENgdDSuCYkJPPVBcUJ-tSGqGNdmQ

http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://catalog.loc.gov/&ei=vnFfSbXdFoia8wSmhdSHDQ&usg=AFQjCNHFahkTa1jf-w6--HxVYMgWXX-4Ig

[leopold99]

a collection of, well, everything:
http://www.archive.org/index.php

a collection of articles concerning US national security:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/

various ebooks:
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/tyretangiere/library.html

ERIC search engine:
http://www.searcheric.org/

ADS abstracts:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/ads_abstracts.html

biology and genetics links:
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=67480

chemistry software and links:
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=63540

physics and math references:
http://sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=73777

[Challenger78]

do these references have a wiki page ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gutenburg

[leopold99]

sacred text archive:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

the nizkor project:
http://www1.us.nizkor.org/index.html

[leopold99]

http://www.free-books.org/index.php

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

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

[leopold99]

religions and cultures.
this is a 622 megabyte MPEG4 download in 15 parts.
http://www.archive.org/details/gov.doj.ncj.212664.v1.1

[S.A.M.]

I used to download and read books from project Gutenberg in the early 90s. We had a crappy modem based connection then and the internet was a quasi text style script with nothing resembling HTML. You could only see images by downloading and opening them in an image program like paintshop. Most of the stuff required winzip and took ages to download. The telephone bill was horrendous.

Boy how things have changed. :)

[draqon]

The telephone bill was horrendous.

Boy how things have changed. :)

The better or the worse? The nostalgia of retro computers runs within my veins...seeing dos-like screens excites me more than media rich windows vista :(

[draqon]

www.lib.ru, collection of many russian translated ebooks in russian language.

[leopold99]

2013 audio books (at present)
http://librivox.org/newcatalog/search.php?reader=&mc=&bc=&cat=&genre=&language=&type=&author=&title=&status=complete&reader_exact=&mc_exact=&bc_exact=&date=&group=&engroup=&ingroup=&offset=0

[leopold99]

video documentaries available in streaming and downloadable formats
there's some good stuff here:
http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php?ct=13

[leopold99]

a collection of stuff that's hard to categorize:
http://www.ratical.org/rhrIndex/type.html

[leopold99]

university of pennsylvania museum of Archaeology and Anthropology videos:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=university of pennsylvania AND mediatype%3Amovies
the first page has mostly student committee meetings.

edit:
in case the above link breaks go to:
http://www.archive.org/index.php
and search for university of pennsylvania selecting moving images from the drop down list box.

[leopold99]

PDF database:
http://pdfdatabase.com/