A Christmas Carol (ebook) by Charles Dickens

It's time for some Christmas reading - online! There are many publications that are no longer copyright protected, it has expired. These books are now in the public domain. Without the protection of copyright, they can often be found online in full text. That has been the work of Project Gutenberg. From their website: Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks. Choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks. All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers.

With all that freedom to use as one wants, a diligent librarian created digital bibliographic records of these free ebooks then shared the records with other librarians. Our BHS library catalog, Destiny, has them. You can search Destiny for all the ebooks or do as I just did, search for ebooks on the subject of Christmas! I discovered that we have these classic ebooks:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore

All of the Project Gutenberg books can be viewed through your web browser or downloaded to most e-reader devices including the Nook and the Kindle. Be sure to search the collection of ebooks in Destiny. These classics are surely a step back in time.

Merry Christmas!

Reviewed by Mrs. Boehm