Delve into the world of public-domain books with Read Print, an online directory that catalogs books that are freely available online. Some titles are classics whose copyrights have expired Jane Austen's Emma and Shakespeare's Hamlet are two of the most popular on the site but there are also works by budding authors hoping someone will give them a read. All told, there are some 3,500 authors cataloged, with a rich selection of books, poems, plays and short stories.