Free Etexts

University of Pennsylvania Digital Library
Links to many free etext sites
Huxley.Net have Brave New World and lots of theoretical material on works of Aldous Huxley
Philosophical Texts and Resources - Kant, Nietzsche, Sun Tzu, ...
EMonks' Etext Project
Chateau Ilias - Les chefs d'oeuvre de la littérature française a lire immédiatement!
Aaron C Anderers text collection, amongst others principia discordia, or how i found the goddess and what i did to her when i found her
An HTML version of the Principia Discordia
University of Chicago multlingual etext services
Proyecto Cervantes para textos electronicos en español
En la UNAM: libros para niños y para adultos:
poesía de Gioconda Belli Serpiente UNAM
Das deutsche Projekt Gutenberg, leider noch in den Kinderschuhen und nur als HTML (mit frames :-((() verfügbar
Collection of German Literature links (U of Virginia)
The Internet Wiretap - very active in 1992 and 93, still has 100s of good books as public domain etexts (from Project Gutenberg?)
last not least, the orignal Project Gutenberg of Free Etexts (after having been abandoned by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Ilford Benedictine College), the Walnut Creek mirror and the austrian mirrors at WU and TU
Littérature francophone virtuelle (ClicNet)

The John E. Stith Web Site, currently offering his award-winning Manhattan Transfer for sale at around USD 2.00

The Rocks and the Sky - roots and flowers of modern science and literature, as seen by Chris, a weird frenchman working in an ad agency (so flame me, we're all weird in our ways)
Biblioteka Maksima Moshkova - database of etexts, author home-/fan pages etc
Computer books from informit.com: tied to a free membership
Texts of dubitable copyright status occasionaly appear on USENET (e-books, e-book nntp or . remarq)
asimov & others

Collection of Mary Anne Mohanrajs collection of erotic fiction (not in the public domain - some of it has been published in dead tree - but free for personal use)

Ben Rugget evangelizing eBooks (inner frame here): Since when do you pay for reading Library books and making fair use of them?
The Rocks and the Sky above
/. article about Stephen King's e-publishing experiment and its probable failure (local backup)

Kathey Marsden, Archie Russell, James Hopkin and Cynthia Tian's ORChie - 1996 Modular Optical Character Recognition Software from cs.berkeley.edu
ljc's ocre
Emmanuel Michon's qui-ne-faut - comes with an outline routine
Joerg Schulenburg's gocr - a free OCR program (also on sourceforge)

Unfortunately I currently don't have access to a working scanner, so I cannot really test the programs.