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Below is a list of 17 best websites to download free eBooks from over 40 that were identified and reviewed by Living Frugal Tips. They are conveniently organized by general content areas for easy searching.
eBooks are all the rage and will continue to grow as portable eBook Readers become more sophisticated, competition heats up and prices come down. The Amazon Kindle, the Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader and the Apple iPad are the most sought after with other more affordable options continuing to come to market.
Check out a quick eBook Reader Review to get all the specs and price comparisons. Don’t despair, if you don’t want to invest in a reader, you can easily read on your computer or laptop. With portability comes a plethora of FREE eBook options sure to educate, entertain and enlighten.
You can certainly find free ebooks at the Apple iBooks store and the Kindle store, but the sites below are great finds for free ebooks that you must check out.
17 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks:
Broad Range of Topics
Hundred Zeros – Hundred zeros is a list of the best selling ebooks that are FREE on Amazon. It is frequently updated so check back often. This site is a personal favorite of mine to download free ebooks.
Bookyards – Over 800,000 ebook and a ton of ways to search for what you’re looking for.
eBooks Directory – Food, wine, non-fiction, outdoors and even children’s books.
ebooks Download Free – Variety of categories from business to computer and fiction.
Free Book Spot – A huge variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias, kids, do-it-yourself, and several languages available.
Free eBooks – A great site that very professional, well organized and categories galore.
Get Free eBooks – Something for everyone.
Many Books – The biggest selection of ebooks in different languages — over 35 languages and growing.
Beyond Just eBooks
PDFoo - An enormous list of categorized pdfs – from ebooks to recipe sheets and the biggest selection of eMagazines that I’ve seen.
Classics
Planet PDF - A wonderful selection of all the old classics – Oliver Twist, Paradise Lost … the list goes on.
Computer and Educational
Free Book Centre – Computer, physics, engineering, medical and even math.
eBook Share – A strange mix of software training and magazines.
ebooks Space – Focus on computer software training, and web design and programming.
FreeComputer Books – All computer stuff.
Free eBooks Download – A coders dream.
Government and Legislature
Ask Sam – The interesting twist is the government reports, presidential debates, State of the Unions, budget reports, even The Constitution.
Social Book Community
Scribd - A reading social community where you can see what others are reading, download and upload your stuff.
Living Frugal Tips loves free and there are no excuses not to read till your hearts content with these 17 best websites to download free ebooks. Knowledge is a wonderful thing and reading fuels that. Please share other sites you use to download free ebooks.
More Free eBook Goodness
Check out my new post for more great sites to download free eBooks – 8 Great Websites for Free eBooks.
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I recommend also these:
http://ebook-cafe.com
http://ebookjunkie.com
You can get 5 free books when you download Storia @ Scholastics website. If you purchase more books the prices are comparable to the prices at your child’s school book fairs. The app is amazing and I think teachers would like it as much if not more than parents. http://www.scholastic.com
You forgot a big one: your public library!
Thanks so much Andrea for adding that to the list. Most Public Libraries offer great online books for checkout. Typical time is two weeks before needing to be returned.
Don’t forget http://www.pixelofink.com for thousands of free downloads. Some are available as free for a few hours; some for days so check first before you download them. A great website with a variety of books!
Project Gutenberg has about 42,000 public domain works free to download.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Thanks James! What a great resource for free ebooks that I was not familiar with. Thanks for sharing. Lisa
Lisa, thanks for listing Free-ebooks.net in your “Best 17″! I must mention it’s sister site; Foboko.com, it has as many great books from indie writers. It’s a free too. It allows you to create ebooks in a fun, social environment! Hope you and your followers will check it out today: http://www.foboko.com. Thanks again for the mention, Diane Carter, Digital Director, Paradise Publishers, Free-ebooks.net and Foboko.com
Thank you Diane. I am working on another ebook post as we speak and I will make sure that I review and include Foboko.com. Thanks again for sharing!
Tuebl.ca is also great for e books…lots of choice.