Interesting eBooks for book lovers.
Gone are the days when you used to sit in a silent library reading your books? Now you can access the book of your choice on any topic on the earth in the very cool and comfort of your home or office. How is this possible? Well through eBooks you can read and view the books on your computer screen. You can even listen to, trade or borrow books using websites.
There are plenty of directories that provide you free eBooks which can be accessed legally and downloaded at your home. Of course you have to be careful and watch out for the grey sites (black sites) that violate the copyright law by sharing their eBook collection for others. You have to make the right choice of what you want to read and what not based on your ethics and values.
I have listed below some websites that may interest you if you are an avid book lover. Of course at the end of the day these are eBooks and they are virtual—after all nothing can beat the fun of reading a book on a warm sunny afternoon lying on your couch!!
10 Best Websites for Book lovers
eSnips: This 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. It allows you to download the books as individual .pdf files. Also, search the “audio book” for some good quality audio books.
WikiBooks: This is another project from the creators of Wikipedia. It is a free collection of e-texts created by volunteers all over the world. The books are available in various international languages. Of course, you may use these texts in your creations free of cost but give due credit to the source properly. Take care to check the license before use.
Project Gutenberg: This is the oldest web portal on the Internet that consists of the largest collection of FREE electronic books that you can be used legally. Billions of volunteers from across the world scan create proof-read, edit and maintain this eBook collection from time to time. It allows you to download the entire collection or individual books as a plain .txt file.
Full Books: This lists thousands of free text books arranged in a neat alphabetical order for easy access. It is wise to read online only as it is a tedious task to copy and paste page by page of the books.
Scribd: This is another document sharing website where people share their collection of eBooks. It allows you to download the eBooks free of cost in various formats such as .doc, .pdf or plain text files.
Digital Classics: Here is a place where you can browse and read books and magazine totally free of cost. The books appear as it is in leather-bound fashion and you can turn pages one by one and read them at your own pace.
Wiretap: This is somewhat similar to Project Gutenberg. It is probably the only single useful gopher resource left on the Internet. News is that they are planning to expand in the near future with more interesting collection of books and talented authors.
Read Print: This is a free online library. It consists of thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic book lovers. It also consists of interesting poems and articles on various topics.
Free Classic Audiobooks: Here is a place from where you can download or listen to audiobooks. They are available as files .mp3 or .mp4 formats. You can download them directly to your iPods or mp3 player for free.
Planet eBook: This is the home of free classic literature. It has a wide range of novels and books which you can download and share free of cost.
5 Bonus Hot Sites for Book lovers
Read at Work: This is a site which will allow you to read books at work. It looks more like a presentation and your boss will not have the slightest inkling that you reading a book.
BookCrossing: This is the most popular book sharing site. People exchange books totally free of cost. These clubs exist in almost all cities in the world. People drop books at designated places and log that in this website. Others who pick it up read and then pass it on and all this again for free.
BookMooch: Here you can trade your books. All you have to do is post a book to a BookMooch user and you will get back a book of your liking from another user. You have to send at least 1 book for every 2 books you receive. It is very important that you maintain this ratio or you won’t be able to mooch books in future, even if you have the points, until you improve your ratio. Sending the books internationally count to 3 books.
BookSummary: This is a site where you can get reviews of several of books.
ODEO: This is a place that allows you to download or listen to millions of podcasts and mp3 audio as well as speeches, music and much more all for free.
October 31st, 2009 at 11:12 am
Nice list will be very helpful
October 31st, 2009 at 11:24 am
Wow, thanks for the information. Liked it.
October 31st, 2009 at 11:36 am
A good list good info thanks for the read!
October 31st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Great resources, thanks.
October 31st, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Great article!
October 31st, 2009 at 2:07 pm
Thank u for the great information
October 31st, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Very good list of site’s that have ebooks for free. Will try them, although i still like to read from normal books in a silent libary.
October 31st, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Very helpful tips. Thanks for sharing my friend.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Nice reference. Thank you Martin.
October 31st, 2009 at 6:55 pm
Thanks for writing this. It’s exactly what I needed because I’m a big fan of online books. Oh, and congratulations on making it to the hot content list martin!
October 31st, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Great list of sites and great write! Thanks for sharing this!
October 31st, 2009 at 8:24 pm
thanks for the share
October 31st, 2009 at 11:04 pm
Very useful information! Thanks.
November 1st, 2009 at 12:55 am
Thank you very much Webiny, i am glad that my article could help you.
November 1st, 2009 at 12:58 am
nice list. i’m gonna try your audio books suggestions, thanks ^^
November 1st, 2009 at 5:36 pm
A very good list of information.
November 1st, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Thanks for the websites. I will check them out.
November 1st, 2009 at 11:19 pm
Thanks for the list
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:28 am
Great information. I will have to check these out.
November 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Very useful for me,Thanks for sharing:)
November 4th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
I love free stuffs =)
November 5th, 2009 at 8:34 am
I’ve bookmarked your article and the info will come in useful, thanks.
November 9th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
great information! ebooks are great as are the audio!