• Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
• The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
• Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
• Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
• Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
• Classic Reader: Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
• Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
• Planet eBook: Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
• The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
• Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
• Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
• Bartleby: Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
• Fiction.us: Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
• Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

• Textbook Revolution: Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
• Wikibooks: From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
• KnowThis Free Online Textbooks: Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
• Online Medical Textbooks: Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
• Online Science and Math Textbooks: Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
• MIT Open Courseware Supplemental Resources: Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
• Flat World Knowledge: This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that will launch in January 2009.
• Free Business Textbooks: Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
• Light and Matter: Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
• eMedicine: This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more.

• FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
• Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.
• Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
• Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
• FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
• Free Tech Books: Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here.

• byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.
• Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.
• International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.
• Lookybook: Access children’s picture books here.

• Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.
• Ideology.us: Here you’ll find works by Rene Descartes, Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, David Hume and others.
• Free Books on Yoga, Religion and Philosophy: Recent uploads to this site include Practical Lessons in Yoga and Philosophy of Dreams.
• The Sociology of Religion: Read this book by Max Weber, here.
• Religion eBooks: Read books about the Bible, Christian books, and more.

• ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.
• Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.
• Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”
• ProPlay: This site has children’s plays, comedies, dramas and musicals.

• Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.
• The Internet Book Database of Fiction: This forum features fantasy and graphic novels, anime, J.K. Rowling and more.
• Free Online Novels: Here you can find Christian novels, fantasy and graphic novels, adventure books, horror books and more.
• Foxglove: This British site has free novels, satire and short stories.
• Baen Free Library: Find books by Scott Gier, Keith Laumer and others.
• The Road to Romance: This website has books by Patricia Cornwell and other romance novelists.
• Get Free Ebooks: This site’s largest collection includes fiction books.
• John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.
• SF and Fantasy Books Online: Books here include Arabian Nights,Aesop’s Fables and more.
• Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

• Project Laurens Jz Coster: Find Dutch literature here.
• ATHENA Textes Francais: Search by author’s name, French books, or books written by other authors but translated into French.
• Liber Liber: Download Italian books here. Browse by author, title, or subject.
• Biblioteca romaneasca: Find Romanian books on this site.
• Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.
• KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.
• Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.
• Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.
• Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.
• Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.
• Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.
• Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.
• Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.
• CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.
• Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

• LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.
• The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.
• Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.
• Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.
• Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

• Questia: Questia has 5,000 books available for free, including rare books and classics.

• Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.
• Chest of Books: This site has a wide range of free books, including gardening and cooking books, home improvement books, craft and hobby books, art books and more.
• Free e-Books: Find titles related to beauty and fashion, games, health, drama and more.
• 2020ok: Categories here include art, graphic design, performing arts, ethnic and national, careers, business and a lot more.
• Free Art Books: Find artist books and art books in PDF format here.
• Free Web design books: OnlineComputerBooks.com directs you to free web design books.
• Free Music Books: Find sheet music, lyrics and books about music here.
• Free Fashion Books: Costume and fashion books are linked to the Google Books page.

• MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.
• TopMystery.com: Read books by Edgar Allan Poe, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton and other mystery writers here.
• Mystery Books: Read books by Sue Grafton and others.

• The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.
• Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”
• Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.
• Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.
• Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.
• QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.
• CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.
• PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

• Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.
• World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.
• DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.
• A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.
• Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.
• ManyBooks.net: Download mysteries and other books for your iPhone or eBook reader here.
• Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.
• Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

Nestle is already in hot water over the continuing pumping of water out of drought-ravaged California to feed its bottled water business. Now, it turns out, they did not actually have the permits needed to do so from at least one of their sources, according to an investigation by The Desert Sun. As reported by the San Jose Mercury News on Sunday, it turns out that their permit for water…

• even if you get along great with your family you will get along even better with them after moving out 
• generic is almost always just as good as name brand. But there are some things you never buy generic, including: peanut butter, ketchup, liquid NyQuil, Chips-Ahoy chewy chocolate chip cookies
• just imagine the person on the other end of the phone hates talking on the phone as much as you do. Even a receptionist. I worked as one and I hate talking on the phone
• at least once in your life you will go to Wal-mart to buy something under $20 like an ironing board or something and your debit card will get rejected. No one will judge. Everyone at some point in their lives has had $2.98 in their bank account. 
• thrift stores
• everyone else is too busy panicking about everyone else noticing every tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about them to notice any tiny thing that could possibly be wrong about you
• you will screw up. a lot. you live and you learn. and when you start to think too hard about that embarrassing thing that happened and how you wish you could change it, just tell yourself that what’s done is done. There’s no changing it, so just forget it and move on. It’s the only way to stay sane.
• do the dishes before the sink grows its own ecosystem
• you can’t put Dawn dishsoap in the dishwasher. 
• if you are the only one in the aisle at the grocery store, and you need to get from one end to the other without even looking at anything in that aisle, then you should totally cart-surf down the aisle. Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Hold on to the little things. They make all the difference.
• never try to make cake from scratch at 3am. You end up with a topographical map of Middle Earth.
• 15% tip. 
• the best way to get money for food is to tell your grandparents about how you basically live on microwaved mac and cheese. Their horror may result in twenty bucks and orders to go out and get yourself “a real dinner”.
• sometimes life sucks, and knowing that it might get better doesn’t always make it suck any less, but you’ll never get to the non-sucky days without enduring the suckiness. 
• no seriously, NEVER put Dawn in your dishwasher

• Reward yourself from time to time when you do things that you needed to get done. It’s a good way to remind yourself to do them. Going out to pay a bill? Get Starbucks or something you don’t get often. Rewards don’t have to be huge, they can be small things like that.
• Rice, pasta, flour, sugar, cheese, eggs, milk, a pack of chicken, a pack of frozen veggies and a well stocked spice cabinet go a long way food-wise. Splurge and get the biggest container of rice you can. You don’t have to go back and buy it again anytime soon and it makes a TON of meals in the meantime.
• Rice can be cooked on the stove. You don’t need a fancy rice cooker. Two parts water to every one part rice (two cups water for one cup of rice for example). Get your water boiling, add rice, put a plate or lid on it, put it on low for 20 minutes. It should be done.
• Keep a calendar on your pc of bill due dates. If your bills are set up at inconvenient times, like all of the services started on the first or something, then call up the company and find out if you can get your billing date switched to something more manageable. A lot of places do try to work with you.
• There is no shame in calling a company and asking for an extension on a bill. Let them know what you can pay, pay that amount, and they arrange when the rest of the payment is required. This can stop you from having services shut off man. It shows responsibility on your part.
• Take time to eat, even when you don’t feel like eating. Your body needs energy to live.
• Wash or rinse your dishes before putting them in the dishwasher. It prevents gross caked on junk.
• “The Works” is an excellent cheap toilet cleaner.
• MAGIC. FUCKING. ERASERS. THEY WORK ON EVERYTHING JUST DON’T SCRUB HARD. I took the ring out of our bathtub with one. Also generic ones work just as well.

• Keep some bleach around but if you use it for cleaning? Dillute it. There’s rarely ever a case where you need to pout straight bleach on anything. A cap full or two in a bucket of water works just fine.
• DO NOT MIX CLEANERS. Chemical reactions are can be very dangerous. Here’s a good list. (Note that vinegar and baking soda can actually be a good combo for removing smells from things but it’s not very good at actually -cleaning-.)
• If you drink? Don’t take meds at the same time it’s just not good.
• Make sure you check the dosages on your pill bottles. No one wants to accidentally overdose on cough syrup or ibuprofen.
• If you have a uterus make sure you have a heating pad and ibuprofen on hand for the pain. Hot baths also generally help and Ginger Tea is excellent for any nausea.
• Buy a first aid kit. It’s worth it in the long run.
• You can often do your taxes online at places like TurboTax.
• Here’s some good sex ed resources because I had to explain what a yeast infection was recently. 
• Petroleum jelly (aka Vaseline) is good for chapped lips and you can get a decent sized tube or tub of it (generic brand version) for cheaper/same price as Chapstick.
• KEEP TRIPLE ANTIBIOTIC OINTMENT IN YOUR HOUSE FOR CUTS AND SCRAPES AND SORES. 

According to NASA’s new report, California only has enough water to get it through the next year. People are under strict water-saving measures; farmers are struggling to keep their crops alive. Yet, Nestlé is bottling water from at least ten natural springs throughout California, including from some of the most drought-stricken areas of the state, and selling it for profit. In places like Sacramento, it’s paying less than $0.14 per gallon. This is bananas.

•  Were told they were just lazy, stupid, or weren’t applying themselves
•  Were put on medications with side effects worse than the intended effect
• Tried so hard to study, and just couldn’t do it
• Who had to be pulled from regular classes to be put into smaller ones away from all of their friends, and later had to awkwardly explain or excuse why
•  Have so many incomplete works because they got distracted and just never went back to it
•  Could relate to the “stupid” characters in TV shows who were forgetful or easily distracted and treated as a joke
•  Had their interests/hobbies taken away from them as a last-ditch attempt to get them to focus
•  Are always running late
•  Are effected by their ADHD daily and ignored by the mentally ill community for ADHD “not being serious enough.”