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Other Web Sites for Free Ebooks Adobe Digital Editions Sample ebook Library http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/library/ Enjoy free sample eBooks including entire books and preview chapters from leading publishers. Clicking on Read and Install will install Adobe Digital Editions software if needed. Currently not Kindle compatible. Amazon http://www.amazon.com Free classics and out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books, as well as limited-time free promotional ebooks available for Kindle. Baen Books www.baen.com/library Baen, a publisher of science fiction and fantasy titles, offers a number of their titles as free downloads. Books are available in both the ePub and Kindle format, as well as a number of others allowing users to read titles on their computers. Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/ebooks/how-it-works.asp?cds2Pid=24925&linkid=1644408 Free Nook Books for your Nook or Nook App downloaded on your phone or computer. 10/11 eBookFling http://ebookfling.com With 14-day lending now available on tens of thousands of Nook and Kindle books, eBook Fling makes it possible for readers across America to borrow and share their ebooks. Lend an ebook, earn a credit, and borrow any other for free! It's 100% safe with the book returned in 14 days guaranteed. Creating a free account is required. Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Feedbooks is a publishing and distribution service for ebooks. You can download books without registering or logging in to your account. However, registration provides some additional benefits: The ability to buy books from our store; Publish your own books, or upload Public Domain books to enrich the Feedbooks catalog; Get a bookshelf, where you can see your past downloads; Add favorites and lists of books to share with other users; Set your preferences for custom PDFs. Free e-books http://www.free-ebooks.net/ Standard memberships are FREE and allow members unlimited access to eBooks in the HTML format and access to 5 eBooks each and every month in the PDF and/or TXT formats. VIP Memberships are available for a small fee, but provide a wide range of additional benefits to VIP Members. Besides unlimited access to the HTML, Text and PDF formats, VIP members can also download unlimited books in the MobiPocket and ePub formats, get first access to new books, priority customer service, storage space for their favorites, and much more. Google Books http://books.google.com/ebooks Like your email, you can access all your ebooks wirelessly in one place, no matter where you go. Google ebooks stores your library in the digital cloud, which means you get to shop for all of your favorite books wherever you want, and read them wherever you go, using just about any device with an Internet connection. Whenever you open one of your books, we’ll pick up right where you left off. Google ebooks is compatible with Android phones, iPhone, iPad, most web browsers and many eReaders. That means you can start reading on your smartphone, continue on your laptop, and carry on reading on your tablet, or any way you want. You must have a 10/11 Google ID, such as a Gmail email address in order to download books. Currently, Google ebooks are not compatible with the Amazon Kindle. InkMesh http://www.inkmesh.com Inkmesh is an ebook search engine that makes it easier to find free ebooks and compare ebook prices for the Kindle, iPhone, Sony Reader, Nook and more. Included in the search index are 34 sources for ebook titles. Internet Archive http://www.Archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Provides over 2.5 million free ebooks to read, download, and enjoy. Search for a title or browse one of the sub-collections like American Libraries. Kobo http://www.kobobooks.com/lists/freeebooks/RYnbq2Rd7kSXf7MOhDofOQ-1.html Free ebooks available for your Desktop, Smartphone, Tablet and Select E-Readers that are compatible with the DRM protected Adobe ePub Format. Manybooks http://www.manybooks.net There are more than 29,000 ebooks available here and they're all free! Search by Title, Author, Language or Genre. You can also create bookshelves with books you’ve read or books you want to read. Registration is not required - you can download free ebooks without an account, as often as you like; however, registration does give you the following options: Keep track of books you've read or intend to read and Share your selections with others using RSS Bookshelf feeds. 10/11 The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books Created by the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Online Books Page offers an index of hundreds of thousands of online books. Project Gutenberg http://www.Gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. You won't find the latest bestsellers or modern computer books here. You will find the classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others. Public Domain Titles from North Carolina Digital Library http://ncdigital.lib.overdrive.com/037865E4-0FC6-4378-9E6D- D983CD24B33E/10/358/en/PublicDomainCollection.htm Choose from over 15,000 titles that never expire and don’t count against your library checkout limit! Scribd http://www.scribd.com/ Scribd is the world’s largest social reading and publishing company. Scribd has converted over a billion pages of written works into web pages, which means that it’s also easy to access what you’re reading from any web-enabled mobile device like your iPhone, iPad, Android smartphone or even Amazon Kindle. In addition, most Scribd content is available to download or print, giving readers even more choices for reading and sharing. 10/11 Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. They offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device. Wattpad http://www.wattpad.com Called “YouTube for ebooks,” every day, millions of readers visit wattpad.com and download the Wattpad app to read and chat about fiction shared by professional and aspiring writers from around the world. Authors, publishers and agents use Wattpad as a mobile platform for online engagement and to create purposeful relationships with readers. App is available for every major mobile device. Free sites for Children/Teen Books Feedbooks http://www.feedbooks.com Feedbooks is a publishing and distribution service for ebooks. You can download books without registering or logging in to your account. However, registration provides some additional benefits: The ability to buy books from our store; Publish your own books, or upload Public Domain books to enrich the Feedbooks catalog; Get a bookshelf, where you can see your past downloads; Add favorites and lists of books to share with other users; Set your preferences for custom PDFs. 10/11 Manybooks http://www.manybooks.net There are more than 29,000 ebooks available here and they're all free! Search by Title, Author, Language or Genre. You can also create bookshelves with books you’ve read or books you want to read. Registration is not required - you can download free ebooks without an account, as often as you like; however, registration does give you the following options: Keep track of books you've read or intend to read and Share your selections with others using RSS Bookshelf feeds. Smashwords http://www.smashwords.com Smashwords is an ebook publishing and distribution platform for ebook authors, publishers and readers. They offer multi-format, DRM-free ebooks, ready for immediate sampling and purchase, and readable on any e-reading device. Wattpad http://www.wattpad.com Called “YouTube for ebooks,” every day, millions of readers visit wattpad.com and download the Wattpad app to read and chat about fiction shared by professional and aspiring writers from around the world. Authors, publishers and agents use Wattpad as a mobile platform for online engagement and to create purposeful relationships with readers. App is available for every major mobile device. 10/11 .
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