Mormon Texts Project

This project now lives at mormontextsproject.org. I stopped running the project in December 2013 and later turned it over to Tom Nysetvold, who did an excellent job with it.

MTP digitized public domain pre-1923 books related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and made them available for free online. It used to be called the Mormon Digitization Project.

Releases

• William Clayton’s Journal

  By William Clayton, released 18 Mar 2013

• Hephzibah

  By Emmeline B. Wells, released 14 Sep 2012

• Essentials in Church History

  By Joseph Fielding Smith, released 31 Aug 2012

• My First Mission

  By George Q. Cannon, released 5 Mar 2012

• Elias: An Epic of the Ages

  By Orson F. Whitney, released 11 Oct 2011

• Mediation and Atonement

  By John Taylor, released 8 Jun 2011

• Corianton: A Nephite Story

  By B. H. Roberts, released 24 Apr 2011

• The Mormons and the Theatre

  By John S. Lindsay, released 12 Mar 2011

• A Rational Theology

  By John A. Widtsoe, released 12 Mar 2011

• Succession in the Presidency

  By B. H. Roberts, released 11 Mar 2011

• A Voice of Warning

  By Parley P. Pratt, released 11 Mar 2011

• The Great Apostasy

  By James E. Talmage, released 8 Mar 2011

• Key to the Science of Theology

  By Parley P. Pratt, released 3 Mar 2011

• Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher

  By B. H. Roberts, released 22 Feb 2011

• Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle

  By Orson F. Whitney, released 19 Feb 2011

• Joseph Smith as Scientist

  By John A. Widtsoe, released 17 Nov 2010

Other free LDS books and texts online

• Reader’s editions of the scriptures (EPUB/Kindle)
• Journal of Discourses (EPUB/Kindle)
• The Story of Mormonism, by James E. Talmage (plain text)
• Jesus the Christ, by James E. Talmage (Project Gutenberg)
• The Articles of Faith, by James E. Talmage (Project Gutenberg)
• BYU Maxwell Institute publications (web)
• BYU Religious Studies Center publications (web)
• Free books from Deseret Book (PDF)

Press

• The Low-Tech World (Oct 2011, post by Scott Hales)
• Association for Mormon Letters (Jun 2011, guest post about MTP)
• A Motley Vision (Feb 2011, guest post about MTP)

More about the project

• All MTP blog posts (archive)
• Unbindery (the transcription web app we use)
• Inside the Mormon Texts Project (Jan 2011, explains our process)
• Mormon Digitization Project, resurrected (Mar 2010)
• Mormon Digitization Project (the initial post, Jun 2009)

Contact

You can contact Tom and company via their about page.