I know there are some places where you can read books online, but they are usually fiction books.
I was wondering, is there a website that has online scholarly books? I remember seeing some commercial for just such a site, I think it was propetial, or something that starts with a p.
Any ideas?
What do you mean by “scholarly” books? Like textbooks? Give us some titles.
I believe the word I highlighted tells the story DDG. Here is a site that might help, it is called The Great Books Index.
I know it doesn’ t start with p, but q’s close … and I think I’ve seen commercials for questia, a self-described “online library” of books & journal articles. It’s subscription based, but there are a few books you can read for free, it appears.
Um, no, that’s not how I’m reading the OP. The OP says, “I know there are places you can go to read books online, but they are usually fiction books.”
He’s not looking for Great Books, he’s looking for, I dunno, journals, encyclopedias, or textbooks? Something non-fiction. The Great Books list is fiction and non-fiction together.
Perseus Digital Library starts with a P, and is pretty darn scholarly besides. Some of it’s non-fiction.
Also of interest might be Project Gutenberg, The Online Books Page at UPenn, and The Internet Public Library.
Hmmm…Okay, I mean something akin to textbooks/scholarly articles. Originally I was looking for a just no-nonsense straight to the facts textbooks and scholarly papers type of site (ie, the history of the united states, the jim crowe laws were…). However, I now realize that books, such as Plato’s republic, would be interesting as well. Incidently, what type of books are those referred to as? I mean the bible is, by no means, a science/facts/no-nonsense type of textbook, but at the same time, it’s not a work of fiction (ok, some people would disagree). Nietche’s (sp?) books probably don’t fall under textbook type, only facts, either, yet they aren’t fiction. I suppose you could call them philosophical works, but is there anything broader that they could be called?
Incidently, I think, the specific site I had heard about was nailed by panama (questia).
netLibrary is one to take a look at. It’s another subscription-based site, but you might want to check to see if your public library has a subscription.