I am a newbee. I just built my first hive and getting ready to build some more over the winter in preparation for spring.
I was perusing E-bay and found a whole slew of E-books sold on disk. As far as I can tell, all of the books were in the public domain, ie the copyrights have lapsed on them.
I did a little surfing and found an old site I used to frequent a bit that had several of the titles. Including Lorenzo Langstroth's book. It is actually a very good read.
The website is gutenberg.org.
We have a impressive list of books and links also on this site, look here http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/board,56.0.html
look at the sticky post (dark blue colored)
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesoldbooks.htm
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/b/bees/index.html
Thanks for the links, The Cornell one is very nice. I am currently reading through the american beekeeper Vol 1. :)
Also a quick search through Google Book Search will produce a large quantity of out-of-print books and older magazines. As I read through these older books, I marvel at the amount of apparently "lost" beekeeping lore not found in more modern books.
http://books.google.com