E-books

General eBook Sources

• Google Books -- use "advanced book search" and choose full view only
• 35 Websites for free ebook downloads
• Digital e-book index
• Internet Archive (texts) -- Select "texts" in the search box
• America.gov free ebooks--books on American life
• Just Free Books -- searches across ebook websites
• Online Books Page-- lists over 30,000 free books available on the Web (UPenn)
• OpenSource Shakespeare--text, concordance, characters, much more
• Project Gutenberg -- over 25,000 free books
• Universal Digital Library -- million book collection hosted by Carnegie Mellon
• BookGlutton (read books online, discuss them with others)
• Books Should Be Free
• World Public Library
• OpenSourceBooks
• English Server 35,000 ebooks. maintained by Iowa State U.
• Planet ebook -- free classics
• ManyBooks -- Over 22,000 free ebooks
• Search ebooks (ebook metasearch)
• Munseys -- Several thousand free books in multiple formats
• University of Adelaide
• BooksInMyPhone -- books for cell phones
• Memoware -- E-books for the PDA available in various formats
• MobileRead -- Beautifully formatted free books in multiple formats
• Authorama (public domain titles)
• Bibliomania
• FullBooks
• Read Print
• Questia (more than 5,000 free books)
• Read Easily -- Aimed at the visually impaired, this web site allows you to change the fonts and colours to make the books more legible
• Digital Media Locator -- Check if your local public library offers free downloads. When the loan period expires the ebook is "returned" to the library
• The e-Book Compendium - designed to link you to news and information about e-Books - electronic (or digital) equivalents of conventional printed books
• Free Books - Australian portal site with links to e-book collections from around the world