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SaveDelete has a list of the 30 best websites to download free books. I’m not familiar with all of the sites it lists, so I’m not entirely sure that all of them are completely legit. But then, you find some unauthorized books even on otherwise completely legit sites like Scribd (which is one of the thirty).
It’s nice to see that even with all the fuss going on about agency pricing and restrictive DRM, there are still so many free books available to anyone with an Internet connection. People from previous centuries would be amazed and thrilled at how easily we can obtain any public-domain book we want, and a number that are still under copyright as well. (Of course, they’d also be saddened by just how few people bother to read those anymore.)
The first three websites seem to be mostly unauthorized books, judging from the few pages I looked at.
Thanks for the link. Oddly, the only one I’ve even heard of is Scribd. Many others that are quite reliable aren’t even mentioned. Feedbooks and Online Novels are two that I check regularly. Smashwords also has a lot of free downloads.
Yeah, this looks like a list for those people to whom “free” means “don’t ask where it came from”. A few legitimate sites, but mainly “sharing” sites. I love the comment from one person that Scribd “also contains some serial keys of many highly demanding softwares”.
Manybooks.net , a great site with ebooks in many formats, is the best on that list.
In my opinion, two bigger and better super-sources for free ebooks are:
Free Literature (edited by Marc D’Hooghe)
http://www.freeliterature.org/
and my own site:
Zorba’s Guide to Free Ebooks
http://www.zorba.us/?page_id=818
And don’t forget TeleRead’s excellent web page that lists many sources of free ebooks.
Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks
The major eBookstores (Amazon/B&N/Sony/Kobo & many indie bookstores) also release boatloads of eBooks for free for a limited time. I’ve been posting about them on my blog when I find them, to spread the word. Free books, guilt free, all completely legit.
The genres are all over the place of course, but it’s a good way of extending your book reading wings to other genres you wouldn’t otherwise touch.
http://ebooklink.net is the best free ebooks download site.
300k ebooks, 500 categories.
if you don’t know http://freebookgroup.com, check it out, it’s good source to download e-books, no fee or registration required
http://www.ekitapdownload.com it is free and good e book download site.
Be cautious with free ebooks. I always try to find thrustworthy free ebook websites. You can find several on http://www.ebooks-forfree.com. For some websites like the Readershop of Sony you need to register. On the other hand the website of Sony is thrustworthy…..
You can visit this website where I downloaded all my eBooks for free. Its here at http://www.wowcheapbooks.com . Enjoy!
Great list! Check out also http://getbookish.com/ where you can also download eBooks for free! Thanks for the list btw.