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Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 7:10 am
by gnume
anyone knows some ?

Re: Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:01 am
by ilox
My favourite is Baen books: http://www.baen.com/library/
They have free books and also quite cheap eBooks.

They also have a very generous offer for those in the community with disabilities especially Vets.

Re: Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 1:12 pm
by gnume
thanks. any more will be appreciated.

Re: Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 2:36 pm
by boballab
Here is a few more:

http://www.manybooks.net/
http://openlibrary.org/
http://online-novels.blogspot.com/
http://www.free-online-novels.com/
http://www.beyondthefarhorizon.com/ (requires free registration to read the books)
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ (similar to the free library, but has complete series of the books including active ones)

Besides those B&N and Amazon do "sell" ebooks for free (you just have to download their free ereaders for the computer):
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Free-eBooks/379003078
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=amb_link_35 ... 1286228011

Re: Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:59 pm
by expedient
Most of those free books from Amazon, B&N, iTunes etc are from Project Gutenberg where you can find a huge selection of out of copyright books in ePub, Kindle, HTML and plain text formats. Also check out the national libraries of various countries and university sites for rare books with limited distribution. Oh and Google Books.

Re: Good sites with free Ebooks

Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 1:52 am
by boballab
expedient wrote:Most of those free books from Amazon, B&N, iTunes etc are from Project Gutenberg where you can find a huge selection of out of copyright books in ePub, Kindle, HTML and plain text formats. Also check out the national libraries of various countries and university sites for rare books with limited distribution. Oh and Google Books.
Actually the ones I found on B&N are NOT from Project Gutenberg. Most of them are pieces of crap that some how people thought would be fun to self publish. Here is an example:
A Jalapeno for the Vampire

Kidnapped and thrown into the lair of a deadly vampire, Susan Smith fights through the terror of her plight to survive. Will the evil creature get her in the end or will she find a way to defeat him?
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-jalap ... 0011182136

There is tons of books like that for free on B&N. You have to keep in mind that Amazon and B&N now have a self publish system and a lot of crap is now on them instead of the way it used to be of mainly Project Gutenberg copies. However there is some good books mixed into the crap you have to wade through.