Most of these sites require signing up. All are free. Some sites carry eBooks for download. Others, like swap sites, carry hardcover and paperback, and have shipping charges.
General sites
- Floodle Great titles on all kinds of subjects. Fun for browsing.
- Classic Book Shelf
- ManyBooks eBooks
- Bibliomania Fiction and non-fiction books.
- Word Public Library 400,000 PDF ebooks. Many free, and for a small annual fee, many more.
- WellToldTales Short story podcasts
- Memoware Books for your PDA
- Internet Classics Archive
- Wowio Great selection
- Famous Poets And Poems Over 22,000 poems
- Kurt Vonnegut novels PDF files
- Podiobooks Audiobooks
- Great Books And Classics Books published by time period.
- Librivox Audiobooks and podcasts
- Dwalin Plain text novels
- Knowledge Rush: Wide selection on many topics
- MemoWare
- Gutenberg Project Top 100 Popular books
- and of course, Google Advanced Book Search, Google’s project to copy all the books ever written
Swap Sites
- Whats On My Bookshelf
- Bookins
- FrugalReader
- TitleTrader
- ZunaFish
- SwapSimple
- SwapThing
- BookCart
- PaperbackSwap
- Science Fiction Books
- BookMooch
Science, Reference, and Technology sites
- Bibliomania Over 2000 etexts
- CHMPDF Great selection of For Dummies and programming books, and much more.
- Internet Sacred Text Archive Sacred texts, religion, mythology, and folklore.
- Realtime Publishers IT eBooks by notable authors
- Athena Motherlode of etexts from the Renaissance and Classical Periods
- Share Big Eclectic assortment of books including encyclopedias, reference works, and medical books
- EBooks at Rackhub Tech and programming books
- Free eBooks Computer books
- PinkMonkey World’s largest library of free online Literature Summaries
- CliffsNotes Self-explanatory
- Wikibooks Textbooks
- eBookWorld Technical resources
- Flaxx IT and computer books
- Avalon Project Law, History, And Politics
- Free Science Info A great selection of science books covering a variety of fields.
- Electronic Text Center From the University Of Virginia
- Free Computer Books
- Search Engines for Free eBooks
- Just Free Books
- ebookSearchr Google
List of Online Libraries
- Bookyards Library Page Complete listing of online libraries.
- Wikipedia’s List of Digital Library Projects.
That should keep you busy for a while.
Excellent resource, Karen. There’s a lot of hard work putting together a list like this. Thank you.
I’m certainly saving it to del.icio.us.
Thanks Rory!
Thanks for the list. Another save to del.icio.us.
A great list–my personal favorite place for books is Powells.com because I have a thing for used hardbacks. Especially vintage historical fiction from the 30s. Sometimes I find old photographs and memos tucked in the pages and I love it.
Thanks for the addition! If anyone else has favorites, let us know!
Cool! Will check some of these out.
Wow, what a great resource! Thanks for putting it together. I find it del.icio.us as well… and well worth a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon.
Thanks for sharing!
From Bookyards ….. thank you for your support.
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