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Online Texts Collection

The IPL Online Texts Collection contains over 20,000 titles that can be browsed by author, by title, or by Dewey Decimal Classification. They can also be searched using the form below. For questions about the online texts collection, or how to search, please see the help page.

Please note that this is a beta version. Please send comments and suggestions to readroom@ipl.org


Search for of these keywords:



Jump to authors beginning with:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Non-Alpha


Jump to titles beginning with:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Non-Alpha


Browse by Dewey Category
000 General
100 Philosophy, Parapsychology and Occultism, Psychology
200 Religion
300 Social Sciences
400 Language
500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics
600 Technology (Applied Sciences)
700 The Arts
800 Literature and Rhetoric
900 Geography and History

To search for a specific Dewey Subject Heading, use this search form:

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These Dewey Subject Headings are based on the Dewey Decimal Classification System, which is copyrighted by OCLC Forest Press.


You can get a listing of Texts Recently Added to the collection:
New items by Title
New items by Author
New items by Author as text file with URLs & Subjects

Don't miss our special section for Shakespeare.

Can't find what you're looking for? Try the sites listed in our Other Text Collections pages.


Macintosh Users: We have created a Sherlock Plug-in for the IPL Online Texts Collection: [download]

Note: Many of the items in the Public Books section are very large files which may take a while to download. Also note that none of the items in the Reading Room are actually stored at the IPL; the entries are all links to texts located on other servers throughout the world over which we have no control.

Please tell us about any resource that we could consider adding to our list.


Server space and programing for the Online Texts Collection is generously supplied by the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service.

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Last Updated Jun 2, 2002