You can link to these sites to download a free text reader and free books to use with the reader.
Readplease has a free reader which can be useful to the blind or people who are learning English. Project Gutenberg offers thousands of books and other literature for free download. Put it together with Readplease, and you have your own electronic book read to you on your computer.
ReadPlease will run on Windows 95/98/ME/NT4/2000. Requires 25 megabytes of hard disk and 32 megabytes or RAM.
