Free eBooks For All!

While purists may deride the lack of romance or connection with eBooks (haters gonna hate), eBooks and readers are making huge strides in acceptance. It was hardly months ago when Amazon reported that digital books for their Kindle reader outsold paperbacks through their website. After highlighting free eBooks in our Sales & Events Calendar, reader RocketScientist asked for more, and here at Unplggd we sure do aim to please. We've scoured the internet for the best sites and sources for literally millions of free eBooks for your reading pleasure, as well as point you in the right direction in choosing the right reader.

Amazon
Amazon has a free eBook collection of free classics and out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, as well as limited-time free promotional ebooks available for Kindle

Borders
Borders touts over a million free public-domain books. Their own disclaimer notes that many are physical scans and can vary in quality, so buyer beware.

Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Nobile has quite a few free NOOK eBooks for download. Registration (and a credit card for future purchases) is required.

Internet Archive
The Internet Archive Text Archive (say that ten times fast) touts almost 3 million free books and texts.

Open Library
Open Library has a lofty goal of creating a web page for every book ever published.

Project Gutenberg
According to Project Gutenberg, this past Independence Day marked the 40th anniversary of the invention of eBooks: July 4 1971. Check out their 36,000 free eBooks for download, available in ePub, Kindle, HTML, and simple text formats. Their affiliate World Book Fair touts 6.5 million eBooks, of which free access is granted between 7/4/2011 and 8/4/2011 (after which membership is $8.95 annually). Project Gutenberg also highlights they have over 100,000 additional free eBooks available through their partners, affiliates and other resources.

ManyBooks
Over 29,000 free eBooks available for free, sortable by author, title, genre, and language. They also provide lists of recent additions to the library, most popular titles, recommendations, recent reviews, and special collections.

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Comments (8)

Aw, I'm so touched you mentioned my SN. :)

And thanks for the info in this post.

Feedbooks.com is also good (although not all their books are free), and Inkmesh.com is an ebook search engine. It allows you to look for ebooks at various retailers and compare prices and available formats.

mobileread.com has a great selection of free ebooks. Most are from Project Gutenberg, but have been carefully proofread and had their formatting fixed.

Oops, didn't close my link. HTML > me.

And always check with your local library. OverDrive is a big player right now, you can check out current/new releases with your library card. Open Library looks promising for more current stuff too, you can access additional content if your library participates.

You forgot to mention Kobo.com. They have direct access to over a million free eBooks - including Internet Archives from their website and apps. Best of all - you don't need a credit card.

Another free ebooks library (DigiLibraries.com)
Over 28’000 eBooks...

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