1. 4eBooks - Thousands of free
eBooks in every computer programing field with reviews and
descriptions.
2. Alive and
Free - Links to free ebooks of living authors
3. Arthur's Classic Novels - Over
4000 novels from the early 20th century
4. Ask Sam - A small collection of
classics, including Shakespeare, and legal, resource and government
texts.
5. Baen Free Library - A small library of
downloadable science fiction novels in a variety of formats.
6. Bartelby - Harvard classics and
encyclopedias. HTML only.
7. Berkely SunSite Classics - A
small collection of classics. HTML only.
8. Bibliomania - Over 2,000 classic
novels, study guides, biographies and more. HTML only.
9. BookRags - Small collection
of free with many paid. Hard to find the free ones.
Available in Word or PDF.
10.
BookYards - 16,000+ books, videos,
educational material.
11. DailyLit - Read books online by daily
email or RSS feed. Over 700 titles.
12. Diesel eBooks - Offers 750+
ebooks formatted for Microsoft Reader and MobiPocket
13 eLibrary - Thousand of free
eBooks
14. eServer - Over 30,000 works
covering a variety of interests
15. FeedBooks - Thousand of eBooks
downloadable in a variety of formats
16. Franklin - Thousands of free titles
available in text and HTML format
17. FreeBookSpot - 5,000 free eBooks
downloadable in 96 categories
18. FreeComputer Books - Free computer,
math, technical books and lecture notes
19. Free eBooks - Smaller collection
divided into categories
20. Free eBooks Net - Free books and
resources for authors. Also magazines
21. FreeTechBooks - Computer science and
programming books, textbooks and lecture notes.
22. FullBooks - Thousand of free full text
books.
23. GetFreeEbooks - Smaller collection of
all free ebooks.
24. Globusz - A place for new authors to
post their work and for readers to check them out for free.
25. Google Book Search - Good
selection of free ebooks available in a variety of
categories.
26. GrtBooks - A large collection of great
books and classics.
27. Gutenberg - Over 25,000 books for
download there and over 100,000 available through their
affiliates.
28. Infomotions - 14,000 listings from
full classic novels to Western philosophy. HTML only.
29. InternetArchive
- Over 500,000 texts available for download
30. ManyBooks - 22,000 books available for
download in a variety of formats
31. Mary Jo's E Texts - Small collection
has not been updated in a while, but links still work.
Palm.
32. MemoWare - Free books for PDA
33. MIT Internet Classics
Archive - Over 400 works of clasical literature
available for download.
34. MobileRead
- Forum listing thousands of free ebooks.
35. Munsey's - Over 18,000 ebooks
available in a variety of formats
36. NetLibrary - Small selection of
free. But annual membership is only $8.95 for over 500,000
works.
37. OnlineComputerBooks - Good selection
of free computer books.
38. OnlineFreeeBooks - links to various
ebooks (mostly pdf) in 9 categories
39. OxfordTextArchive - Over 2,000
classical texts downloadable as ASCII or DOC
40. PDFBooks - 4,700 pdf ebooks
41. PerseusDigitalLibrary - A large
collection of classical texts broken down to time period
written.
42. PlaneteBook - Free classical
literature
43. PlanetPDFeBooks - Small
collection of classical works.
44. ReadEasily - Small collection of works
that has option for larger print. HTML only.
45. ReadPrint - Thousands of books, poems
and short stories.
46. RealTime - Free media for IT
professionals
47. Scribd - Open library to download or
publish documents.
48. SnipFiles - Small collection of free
ebooks and software.
49. WitGuides - Small collection of free
ebooks in a variety of categories.
50. Wowio - Good size collection of novels
and also comic books.
Recent Additions
Bookstacks is a small
collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing,
with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader
versions. Nicely set up.
Classic Authors.net contains
the works of over a hundred authors (and short biography for each),
with a varying number of works per author. Online viewing
only.
Classic Book Library is a small
collection (100+) of classic works arranged by genre. Online
viewing only.
Classic Book Shelf Electronic
Library offers the works of 50+ authors in varying
amounts. Online viewing only.
Classic Reader offers thousands
of free classic books for online viewing.
Fiction eBooks is a interesting
small collection of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter
illustrated childrens books) as well as some books for writers and
works philosphy and sociology. Online viewing only.
Free
eBooks is a collection of several hundred works in
a interesting range of categories. Some available for online
viewing, others for download in differing formats.
Master
Texts is a collection of 30+ authors for online
viewing.
Questia Online Library offers
over 5,000 classic and rare works for free online viewing.
Although some of
these newer entries are smaller collections, they were included as
they contained works not available at other sites listed.
Some smaller sites were not listed as they did not have any unique
listings.
Libraries on the advice of
anonymous poster that most public library systems offer free
ebooks, audiobooks, and music downloads to their customers for
free, I did some checking and found that there are a large amount
of offerings available through online libraries. It appears
most, if not all, require a local library card. These are
sites that have links to local library sites.
LibWeb is a good search source
for local libraries online. A good selection of US and worldwide
locations.
Public Libraries very good for
US, looked not as thorough as LibWeb on worldwide.
Internet Public Library also
has some links, but I found the above two to be superior set
ups.
More
Suggestions from Posters
Children's Books Online is an
excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books
for viewing online. They are also available for
download at a fee. This little gem was suggested by an
anonymous poster.
Free Book Spot is a small
collection with a number of unique books in 90 categories available
for download in a number of different formats. Suggested by
devinathann.
Webooks is a small (150)
collection of "How To" books on unusual topics available for online
viewing or download as pdf. Suggested by an anonymous
poster.
Federal Citizen Information
Center offers informational booklets on a great
variety of subjects. Many are free and most of the paid ones
are available for a free download. Suggested by an anonymous
poster.
Some More
Additions
Qvadis hosts over 6,000
free titles available in Palm Database (.pdb) format.
WordiQ offers over 10,000 new
and old classics for online viewing.
Cliff Notes has the Cliff Notes
for 187 books as well as some basic study guides for various
subjects available for online viewing.
The Online Books Page from the
University of Pennsylvania is a listing of over 30,000 free
books on the web. Mostly this references to other
sites, but they do have the Gutenberg listings available for
download as well as some interesting special exhibits.
The Online Library of
Liberty hosts over an interesting collection of
over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for
download.
Web
Literature has 6500+ works of over 350 authors
available for online viewing. A nice feature is that they try
to display the full works of the listed authors.
Again, please feel
free to make any suggestions, comments or
additions.