Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-24.137.244.60-20130919041542/@comment-1173941-20130919042015

You can read the Fan Translations of the Light Novels at http://baka-tsuki.org/project/index.php?title=Sword_Art_Online if you like.

The "Web Novels" are basically SAO, before it got published as a book, (untranslated though)