Brothers and Sisters,
If you don't have a lot of money, there are several sources that I highly recommend. For a huge and free variety of just about all kinds of old works, Project Gutenberg is excellent. Everything is free and comes in a plain text format. You can read them in any plain text editor, but I recommend any number of completely free Readers that are specifically designed for e-text books.
For Massive Free Book Repository
http://www.gutenberg.net/Just for information, Y-Book is an excellent example of a completely free Reader that makes the e-Text books seem more like real books. The nice thing about Y-Book and other freeware readers like it is that you can have numerous settings to your liking (i.e. fonts, sizes, page configurations, paper color and texture, pages side by side, pages to be turned, etc.)
For Y-Book Reader
http://www.spacejock.com/By the way, there are no strings attached at all to the use of the free books and readers. Project Gutenberg is known for probably the largest collection of free books for download in the world. The total count is way up in the thousands. Please be forewarned that Project Gutenberg also has older books that are not appropriate for Christian or family use. In using Project Gutenberg, it is best to search by category and author to avoid any results that might not be appropriate for Christian family use. The vast majority of the books are probably in excess of 100 years old, and most of them have been out of copyright for many years.
For all Christian materials, I highly recommend the e-Sword Bible Study Package. See the link below in my signature area. e-Sword is extremely high quality and is also free with no strings attached. There are absolutely huge libraries of outstanding Christian materials that are made specifically for use in e-Sword, and they are also free. I must add that some of the best Bible study aids are very old and have been out of print for many years. If you could still buy them in book form, they would cost an arm and a leg.
There are completely free materials by most of the authors mentioned in this thread available for e-Sword. I have a variety of books and sermons from nearly all of them, and they were completely free. We have a thread on the forum under "Computers and Software" that has quite a few details for e-Sword. However, it only has a tiny sampling of what's available and free for e-Sword.
Brothers and Sisters, I've had several commercial Bible Study Programs, and I honestly like the FREE e-Sword program the best. I must add that many commercial Bible Study Programs sell add-ons that should be free. I have no idea how they get away with charging people money for what IS FREE, and they got it FREE. In my opinion, this is dishonest. It would be like me copying the free sermons available on Christians Unite and trying to sell them. By the way, Christians Unite does have an excellent selection of completely free Christian materials that are appropriate for everyone in the family. Please take a look at ChristiansUnite KIDS for a lot of excellent material for your children. Look in the menu on the left side of your screen for many other kinds of free Christian materials.Love In Christ,
Tom
Galatians 6:9-10 NASB Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.
