4,600 Public Domain Books – These are Kindle books available directly from
Amazon.com
Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts – This is a collection of public domain and open
access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western
philosophy.
American Mathematical Society E-books http://www.ams.org/publications/onlinebooks/online_subject
Baen.com – free and very inexpensive SciFi books for your Kindle.
Bartleby.com – The Harvard Classics are among many free texts offered online at this
award-winning site. There are also many classic reference works available here.
Bibliomania.com – This site has over 2,000 free classics. It also has reference books,
biographies, and research works. You can read online in your browser.
Bookboon.com – Bookboon provides online textbooks for students in PDF format. They
can be downloaded without registration.
Bookshelf: The National Library of Medicine's growing collection of biomedical books
that can be searched directly.
BookYards.com – BookYards has over 17,000 free ebooks. Their goal is to be the
“Library Of The World”. They also provide access to hundreds of online libraries totaling
over 800,000 books.
California Free Digital Textbook Initiative FlexBooks for K-12
Classic Reader: Search this online library of thousands of free books by authors such
as Dickens, Austen, Shakespeare and many others.
CARL Digital Library collection Combined Arms Research Library Digital Library
Connexions a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge
chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone
may view or contribute:
Ebook Exchange these are the lendme borrowing books
http://www.ebookexchange.com/index.php
eBookLobby
eBooks @ Adelaide University of Adelaide Classic Works of Literature, Philosophy,
Science, History and Exploration and Travel.
e-library.net – E-Library as a section dedicated to free ebooks.
Ellora's Cave offers free downloads of some of their titles. These range from short-short
stories to novellas and "short novels". Their website is at http://www.jasminejade.com/
Their content are romances, from their Blush line (sweet, suggestive, or sensual, not
erotic) to erotic romances, even GBLT, etc., so there may be items of interest to a
variety of patrons. I have downloaded a full science fiction romance from them in the
past from what is now their Blush line. Formats available include Adobe PDF Microsoft
Reader MobiPocket Rocket Book ePub HTML
FeedBooks is a digital library for both public domain and original books. Browsing
friendly.
Fictionwise – over 15,000 ebooks in Kindle format as of December 2007 so there’s
probably even more now.
FreeBookSpot - 4500 free ebooks in 100 categories.
Free-eBooks.net – Another online source for free ebooks. You can also submit your own free
ebook here.
FreeKindleBooks.org – 1000s of Free Classic E-books in Kindle-compatible MOBI and
PRC formats.
Freetechbooks.com – Great site for free tech books such as computer science,
engineering and programming, textbooks and lecture notes.
FullBooks.com: Offers thousands of books that can be read online for free.
GetFreeBooks.com – Hundreds of free ebooks from dozens of categories with a lot of
free computer programming books.
Girlebooks http://girlebooks.com/ebook-catalog/
Globusz is unique in that it offers authors a place to publish their work in open content.
Google Books
Search inside full-text online books. Find entire e-books available for free or read
snippets of books for purchase.
Harvard University Open Collections Program
http://library2.norwich.edu/library/findingonlinebooks
"Best Sites for Free Kindle e-Books" site,
http://www.elegantsimplelife.com/2010/05/best-sites-for-free-e-books-for-kindle/,
Illinois Harvest
free books for your Kindle
Internet Archive's Ebook and Texts Archive
Jungle-search.com – This is updated twice daily with free books for your Kindle.
Lendle http://lendle.me/ lend and borrow Kindle books
Literature Network
Many literary classics including 1,900 full books, over 3,000 short stories and poems by
over 250 authors.
Manybooks.net A large selection of ebooks and an easy to use site. Books are downloadable
in many formats including Kindle. Many books is a digital library that takes e-books from
Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and other free sources and converts them to
file formats suitable for e-readers. Browsing friendly.
Mobipocket.com – There is a nice selection from the free ebooks section of MobiPocket.
Munsey’s –some good books in Kindle format.
NCBI E-books http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books
On-Line Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania, is a portal connecting to over
900,000 free books on the Web, in many formats.
Online Library of Liberty: The Library is where electronic versions of classic books about
individual liberty are stored. These texts go back some 4,000 years and cover the
disciplines of economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political theory, religion,
Open Textbook Catalog FROM StudentPIRGs
Orange Grove Open Textbooks from University Press of Florida
Perseus Digital Library: Online collection of classic writings from antiquity from Tufts
University's Classics Department.
Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works and to
encourage the creation and distribution of e-Books. Containing over 100,000 literary
works which are in the public domain.
Sony Reader Store http://ebookstore.sony.com/category/free-ebooks
Wikibooks