Old books and information

With winter making a last hurrah before spring makes its 'official' debut in a few weeks what better time to do research on gardening, livestock, homesteading or just reading a good book. 

Below are a few online book sites for some of those old time books that are no longer in publication or classic reading publications that can be viewed online and, in some cases, downloaded to your computer or reading devices. 


For example, I wanted to read The Henwife: Her Own Experience in Her Own Poultry-Yard.   So I went to Forgotten Books, typed in the title and at this link it appears with a choice to download to an app, read online, download a pdf, read on a kindle or add to your library wish list to read later. 

Do some reading now or download and save for later.  There is a lot of good information out there today that may not be available tomorrow.







National Ag Library Digital Collections (USDA farmers bulletins, too)

http://naldc.nal.usda.gov/naldc/home.xhtml

Forgotten Books
http://www.forgottenbooks.com/

Biodiversity Heritage Library
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/


Online Books Page (does a net search of readable online books... doesn't get them all but does a good job)
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/


Hathitrust Digital Library (can't always download but if you can find the book here you usually can find them on other sites listed)
http://www.hathitrust.org/

Google Books
https://books.google.com/


Cornell University
https://www.library.cornell.edu/google-book-search-library-project

Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
http://chla.library.cornell.edu/

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/

Loyal Books (audio books)
http://www.loyalbooks.com/