I have been getting the Internet Tourbus newsletter for a long time now, but haven’t mentioned it here in a couple of years. This article caught my eye though. With the advent of Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader more and more people are looking at electronic books.
As Bob Rankin says “With the advent of the Amazon Kindle, Sony’s eReader and other ebook readers, you can carry a whole library of books without breaking your back. However, paying for all those ebook downloads at $10 a pop can still break the bank. But you CAN get them for free if you know where to look.”
Of course, his first mention is of the Gutenberg Project.
There are now over 28,000 titles available there, with a total of 100,000 through their partners and affiliates.
The others I didn’t know about. Here is a quick list:
Bartebly
“Bartleby has to be the best source for online students, researchers or any other readers who need reference material. They have indexes by authors, titles or subject and access to both contemporary and classic works. Included are Harvard Classics, Gray’s Anatomy with engravings, religious books, encyclopedias and other reference books. Also available are poetry, fiction and non-fiction (including William Shakespeare.) You can download for Microsoft E-book Reader, Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader for Windows or Mac, or AportisDoc Mobile Edition for handhelds for free on Amazon as long as it is for personal use.”
Others listed:
Feedbooks
Free Kindle Books at Amazon
Google / Sony
BookYards
README
Of course Bob has more detail about each of these and provides links to the sites for downloads. (Link below)
My problem is, I really don’t have much time to read and listen to most of my books, either from Audible, LibriVox or MP3/CDs from the public library.
See the full article here.
