I have written a couple times about e-books and I recieved an email from Asia Lu listing her top ten favorite free ebook web sites. I thought it was a pretty good list and thought I would share with you. Thanks to Asia for compiling the list. By the way, most of these services should work with the new Kindle ebook reader from Amazon.
1. Project Gutenberg: This is one of the first sites to promote ebooks. If it is in the public domain you'll probbaly find it here.
2. Asiaing.com: Over 2,000 free ebooks & free magazines. Most of them can be downloaded directly. I love the slogan: "Knowledge shared, power gained!."
3. The Online Books Page: Listing over 25,000 free books on the Web. The site is hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Library.
4. PSU's Electronic Classics Site:Classic works of Literature.
5. PlanetPDF: Classics works of Literature.
6. University of California, eScholarship Edition:
The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.
7. University of Adelaide Library's collection of Web books:
The collection includes classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.
8. AvaxHome.ru: Some new ebooks. Rapidshare download links. Copyright is a problem.
9. The National Academies Press
Read more than 3,000 books online FREE!
10.You! Everyone has his own favorite ebook website. Maybe It's already on the list. Maybe not. It doesn't matter. The most important thing is that you love eBook.
01 January 2008, 08:21
Good list,
Thank you
18 January 2008, 09:41
Thanks, This is great!