Apr 25 2008
Free Unabridged Books Online
Way in the beginning when I was first published –my, how time flies– you could read my book only as an ebook. I’d always been a proponent of the medium, but the number of ebooks available, in formats I could read on my Palm Pilot, were scarce.
Today, it’s not the case, especially with e-ink technology, which is used by the Sony Reader and Kindle. There also have been many projects over the year to make available most of the classics online for anybody to read. These, of course, are one way or the other, copyright-free. The site below has put together a list of online sites where you can find free ebooks for download. The site has a scholastic goal, but I like the fact that they’ve added a site for children’s stories and poems, which are usually difficult to find. Some sites such as fictionwise.com and eReader offer only a limited number of free ebooks but offer a bookstore of tens of thousands of great books, including current best-sellers. Fictionwise.com has all the available formats (and carries my own books, of course!)
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I just love the availability of html books online now. I use a Pocket PC PDA and read books using ‘Vade Mecum’. These books are ‘clipped’ from the internet using ‘Sunrise XP’ and then transferred to my pda which automatically picks them up. You can basically ‘clip’ any html: forums, books, blogs etc
The above software is free.
Oh. Forgot to say…..great link. Thanks. *-)
oops! Sorry about this. An addendum to my first post above. if you use Vade Mecum you can download books directly from Project Gutenberg - just select the ‘plucker’ edition of your chosen book.
Steve,
Great info, thanks!