By grthiagu
15 Best websites where you can find Free eBooks
From ancient times, libraries are the places where people go to find
and read books. Now, in this modern age, there are ebooks that you can
view and read on your computer screen. You can sit at your home and
read books, listen to, trade or borrow books using websites.
There are plenty of directories that host free ebooks that you can
legally download and read at your home. But, there are some grey sites
(black sites) that violate the copyright law where people share their
ebook collection for others (I am not talking about the Peer-to-Peer
sharing over computers which is a different world).
You need to be wise to choose what you want to read and what you want
to skip based on your ethical values. But, here are some of the best
collection of websites that every book lover would love. And yea,
these are ebooks that are virtual - so, nothing beats the real feel of
reading a book on a sunny afternoon sitting in a beach.
10 Best Websites for Booklovers
1. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a repository of all the free texts that are in
the public domain. It is the Internet's oldest web portal that stocks
the largest colelction of FREE electronic books that you can use
legally. Billions of volunteers from all over the world scan, create,
proof-read, edit and maintain this ebook collection. You can download
the entire collection or individual books as a plain txt file.
2. eSnips
eSnips is a place for sharing ebooks, mp3 songs, photographs or
paintings. You can list your creations for free or set a price and
sell them here. eSnips is really a grown market place. You can
download the books as individual pdf files. Also, you can find some
good quality audio books when you search site with "audio book".
3. Scribd
Scribd is another document sharing
website where people share lots of their e-books. This is the coolest
document sharing web service that you may ever come across. You can
download the ebooks in various formats such as .doc, .pdf or plain
text files.
4. WikiBooks
WikiBooks is another project from the creators of Wikipedia. Like
Project Gutenberg, this is also a free collection of e-texts created
by volunteers all over the world. The books are available in various
international languages. You may use these texts in your creations as
long as you credit the source properly (Always check the license
before you use).
5. Full Books
Full Books lists thousands of free text books neatly arranged
alphabetically. You can only read online, but you can copy and paste
page-by-page which is a tedious task if a book
6. Wiretap
Wiretap, just like Project Gutenberg, is another probably the single
useful gopher resource remaining on the Internet. They plan to be
considerably expanding our offerings in the near future. More books,
more authors are coming soon.
7. Free Classic Audiobooks
Free Classic Audiobooks is a place where you can download or listen to
audiobooks. The files are available as .mp3 or .mp4 and you can
directly download to your iPods or mp3 player for free.
8. Digital Classics
Digital Classics Zinio is a place where you can browse and read books
and magazines for free. The books appear as it is leather-bound and
you can turn pages and read them at your own pace.
9. Read Print
ReadPrint is a free online library. It lists thousands of free books
for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. It includes poems
and articles on various topics.
10. Planet eBook
Planet eBook is the home of free classic literature. All the novels
and books are entirely free for you to download and share.
Five Bonus Sites: Chicken Soup for Booklover's Soul
Read at Work is a site which will allow you to books at work. Your
boss when walks past will think that you are actually work on the
official presentation. Cool trick, right? See it to believe it.
BookCrossing is a the most popular book sharing site. People exchange
books for free and these clubs exist in almost every city in the
world. People drop books at designated places and log that in the
bookcrossing website, some others pick it up, read and then pass it
on. It is all free.
BookMooch is a place where you can trade books. Yea, you post a book
to a BookMooch user and you will get a book that you like from another
user. You have to send out at least 1 book for every 2 you receive. If
you don't keep this ratio up, you won't be able to mooch any books,
even if you have the points, until you improve your ratio. Sending
internationally counts as 3 books.
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