Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Free Books Online

The  Internet is a great source of free materials.  One often overlooked resource is the availability of free books that can be read on the computer, tablet or smart phone.  Most public libraries now offer limited downloading of books.  The following is a list of websites that offer free books for registering:

The commercial web sites www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com offer many free books.  In their search engine enter - free books.  Both require that you download their reader software.

These websites load their books in pdf files:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ over 1,000,000 books online - tends more to academic subjects

http://manybooks.net/ includes links to Kindle and Nook downloads

www.wattpad.com - millions of reader uploaded stories

www.gutenberg.org - one of the original eBook sites more than 40,000 books whose copyright has expired

www.PageByPageBooks.com - classic books online - search by title or author

www.free-ebooks.net/ - free limited to 5 downloads a month - paid subscription offers unlimited downloads

www.scribod.com - huge number of free books



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