Happy Anniversary William Shakespeare!!!

Hi All,

William Shakespeare died on April 23rd, 1616. Which makes tomorrow - Thursday - the 399th anniversary of his death.  Wow!

For a really, really brief overview of his life, works and context of his life, click on this link from Wikipedia.

Here is a list of some very helpful William Shakespeare links:
Internet Shakespeare Editions
Folger Digital Texts
Open Source Shakespeare complete works - with search engine and concordance.
First Four Folios - Miami University Library
Shakespeare Quartos Archive
Shakespeare's Words - online version of a very popular glossary
Shakespeare's Will
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Works by William Shakespeare at Project Gutenberg


Readers might want to click on this link which goes to the library card catalog on the subject of 'William Shakespeare'.  Readers will find Shakespeare plays, poems, literary criticism, books on CD, videos and more by clicking on the link. 

Enjoy the links and happy birthday to the Bard!

Regards,
Stu

Spotlight On Websites That Offer Free Downloadable E-books

Hi All,

I'm sure that many of you know that the library has e-books. Users can download e-books onto their Ipod, Ipad, Sony Reader, Android device, Nook's, Kindle's and other e-readers.
Just visit the library website by clicking on this link and scrolling down to the section of the page that says 'Download an E-book or Audiobook'. Click here to go directly to the link though.

Farmingdale PL patrons can download books on a wide variety of topics - both fiction and non-fiction in a wide variety of formats from Overdrive. Just remember that you'll need your Farmingdale library card to download e-books and audiobooks.

Now - onto to the main part of this post. Did you ever hear about Project Gutenberg? Well, if not, Project Gutenberg is an online archive of books and e-books that users can take out and read - for free! Click here to go to the Project Gutenberg site. (http://www.gutenberg.org) FYI, Project Gutenberg has over 33,000 free e-books to read on virtually all devices.

Another website where readers can get their fill of e-books is on Free-ebooks.net. Click on this link to go to the site. The site also has e-book resources and information on ebook authors.

http://www.free-ebooks.net

Finally, users can click on this link from Manybooks.net to get yet more e-books. Click here to go to the Manybooks site. http://manybooks.net Manybooks has over 29,000 e-books available for Kindle, Nook, Ipad and most other eReaders. And of course, they are free!

Other free e-book sites include:

UPenn Digital Library at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books

Kokobooks.com at http://www.kokobooks.com

Archive.org at http://www.archive.org/details/texts

Google Books at http://books.google.com/ebooks

Enjoy the books!

Stu