Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Free E-book Resources

When we were reviewing 10 of the best online resources for free books, we had a LOT of readers chime in with their own favorites as well.  Thank you for all your helpful contributions!
In fact, we had so many suggestions, we have enough to compile a huge list from them, so here they are in no particular order:
  1. ManyBooks – Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader
  2. BookCrossing – Where real books are released into the wild to be found by other.
  3. LibraryElf – The perfect companion to a public library syste
  4. Scribd – Open library to publish and discover documents online
  5. Word Public Library – 400,000 PDF ebooks for download
  6. Free Tech Books – Free computer science and engineering books (+ lecture notes)
  7. Bookins – Swap real books with other readers
  8. WellToldTales – Free short story podcasts (like audiobooks, but shorter)
  9. Wowio – Public domain, free legitimate copyrighted materials & one of the only with a selection of Comic Books
  10. BizBooktalk – Free book giveaway contests on Fridays
  11. MoochMuch – Organize your book lending with your friends
  12. CHMPDF – A collection of general interest and technical ebooks
  13. Realtime Publishers – free IT eBooks by many of the world’s best authors
  14. FrugalReader – Trade Books for free – Thanks Brent
  15. TitleTrader – Swap books, movies, and music – Thanks Brent
  16. ZunaFish – Trade your old media and books items for new titles you’d rather have – Thanks Brent
  17. SwapSimple – Swap your used books here
  18. SwapThing – Community of users who swap items including books
  19. BookCart – Internet paperback exchange
  20. SF-Books – Exchange Sci-Fi Books here
  21. PaperbackSwap – Swap books for free
  22. PinkMonkey - 450 Study Guides / Booknotes / Online Chapter Summary Notes and Analysis
  23. eBookWorld – Technical resources
  24. Flaxx – IT and computer books
  25. Baen Library – Free science fiction and fantasy novels
  26. LibraryThing – Social networking and free books
  27. Online Books Page – Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet 
  28. Podiobooks – free audiobooks that you can subscribe to with iTunes or any other podcatcher
  29. BookRags – Research material in the form of eBooks
  30. Technical Books Online – Old tech books from the "vacuum tube age" of electronics
  31. ebookSearchr – Google powered Thanks Rico & Rokker
  32. Internet Archive – The Intenet indexed – that includes a vast text library
  33. BookYards – Books, videos, education materials
  34. Memoware – Free books for your PDA
  35. DocStoc – online document sharing website. the "YouTube of documents"
The items below were taken from my original Top 10 list with full reviews 
  1. Gutenberg Project Top 100 – Popular books from the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet
  2. BookMooch - Community for exchanging used books
  3. ebookSpyder – Specializes in technical books ranging anywhere from C# to AJAX
  4. Google Book Search – Read the classics online
  5. Dwalin – plain text novels
  6. Free Computer Books – Technical resources about computers
  7. Librivox – Audio works and podcasts of books
  8. CliffsNotes – Get the notes to cram for the exam
  9. WIkibooks – Free textbooks
  10. DailyLit – Receive small parts of books via email

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