Who can argue with Free? If you are not familiar with the concept of free downloadable books, I thought you’d appreciate knowing that there are scores, perhaps hundreds, of websites where you can download free ebooks. I mean, really and truly for free. The scope of information and genres is, well, endless. While I’m only presenting seven, to get you started, for a list of 50 sites, click on the photo.
You can also upload and share any books, documents, reports, poems, etc. that you have created. I’d love to hear your experience with downloading or uploading free ebooks, and other resources you would like to share.
In addition to these seven sites, I have included, below, a lovely bit of prose about autumn (both the season and the time in our lives) from one of my favorite sites, Scribd.
Scribd is an online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook. You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free.
ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are more than 20,000 eBooks available – all free!
The Online Books Page lists more than 30,000 free books on the Web.
Planet eBook offers free classic literature to download and share.
BookYards, “library to the world,” offers free books, education materials, information, and content.
FreeBookSpot is an online source of thousands of free ebooks downloads in 96 categories such as scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many others. No registration required to download free e-books.
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Thanks so much for the lists, Aysha. How nice to be able to travel without a suitcase full of books! (Though nothing can beat the feel of a REAL book in the hand, or am I just old-fashioned?)
Hi Jann, I don’t think the love of tactile books is old-fashioned and I hope they will always be with us, but times are changing and we have many choices as to how we want to receive and share information and be entertained. I recall Carl Segan in one of the “Cosmos” episodes standing in front of a wall of books at a beautiful library. He swept his arm behind him and said there were about 5,000 books on those shelves, the average amount an avid reader would read in his or her lifetime. He admonished, “choose carefully.” So whether digital or “real,” we need to choose carefully. Thanks for your comment!
Thanks for this list! So many good books to read for free. I like these nature friendly paperless books. Here’s one more site that I would like to recommend:
http://ebook-cafe.com/
This is a great tip especially to those new to the blogosphere.
Short but very accurate info… Many thanks for sharing this one.
A must read post!