As they say on the Enterprise:
"These are the chronicles of eBook-mom and her daily mission: to explore strange new free eBook websites, to seek out new free eBook links and bargain eBooks, to boldly go where no mommy has gone before. . .
Written on 9/28/2012 at 12:09 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
There are "free" e-books on the internet!
Free eBook websites can be found everywhere on the internet. Some just link to Project Gutenberg and other websites offer e-book downloads for books that have never been published. Consequently, it's a great time to be a reader because there is always something out there to download and read.
Below, I've taken some time to list and review each free e-book website that I have visited. Read a brief summary on this page or click "more" to read the whole review.
If you just want to know general tips about free e-book websites, here's a link to my post Free e-book website tips.
Written on 10/8/2012 at 12:30 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
What I liked best about eBooks@Adelaide is the fact that the e-book downloads have been formatted for easier reading and enjoyment.The Adelaide website has a great user interface for reading books online. You can access the book one page at a time, or use hyperlinks from the table of contents.
If you would like to print the book, there is
a feature where you can access the whole book at one time for easier
printing. To read books offline and with your browser,
you can download a zip file of the total text.(more)
Written on 10/16/2012 at 3:00 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
Today my free e-book travels take me to the Baen publishing free library website. Baen is a science fiction publisher that has built an incredible free eBook library. The e-books, previously published by Baen books, range from science fiction short stories, full-length science fiction, book series and even reading guides for teachers. I was excited to find such a generous selection of free e-books. Don't get me wrong, I love the classics but sometimes I want something new and fresh and Baen's free e-books library delivers. Here are five things that I absolutely love about the Baen free library. (more)
Written on 10/18/2012 at 12:00 pm by eBook-mom
If you don't want to bother with downloading e-book files, look no further than Arthur's Classic Novels where Arthur re-formats e-book so that you can read them online. Arthur's website also provides tools to adjust text size, bookmark and also save the e-book as an ePub file.
What I love about Arthur's classic novels (more)
UPDATE 01/28/16:
There is no longer an Arthur's Classic Novel website. I don't know what happened to it but it was a great website. I really miss it. It was a great website.
Written on 10/23/2012 at 2:00 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
The Book Depository website offers over 11,000 free e-books. Based out of the U.K, and the winner of the Queen's Award for Enterprise in 2012, The Book Depository has an innovative mission to make available out-of-print or difficult to find books. Specifically, they republish these hard to find books through their imprint Dodo Press which also makes these books available as free e-books for download on their website (more)
Written on 10/2/2012 at 1:00 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
Offering
more than 3,810 books on their website, Classic Reader gives you the
tools to annotate - write notes -- while you are reading and to find
those notes at a later time. Ever
try to tackle a classic work and fail because you just couldn't keep
your focus? No problem, just surf on over to Classic Reader . . .(more)
Written on 10/2/2012 at 1:00 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16
Digilibrary can easily become one of your favorite places to find free e-books because the e-book choices are practically limitless. Digilibrary is brimming with e-books from every category such as: harlequin romances, public domain, bibles, cookbooks and many more.
Whether you
want to read fiction or non-fiction, Digilibraries has it. I love this
website because the e-book choices are as unlimited as my book wish
lists.Another great thing about Digilibraries is that you can always
find something new to learn about. I've found the e-books about cooking,
crafts and hobbies and gardening to be very helpful (more)
Written on 1/13/2013 at 10:30 am by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
E-Books Directory is a directory of 7391* e-books that you can download for free. This free e-book directory includes fiction, non-fiction, lecture notes, documents and technical books found all over the internet. The E-Books Directory also takes submissions of original works. (more)
*new e-books added daily!
Written on 1/18/2013 at 1:30 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
Today my free e-book trek takes me to the ePub Books
website. ePub Books is a website that
sells e-books in the ePub format. As a
service to its customers, ePub Books also
offers a vast collection of e-books free to download in both epub and kindle format.
The ePub Books website treats every e-book equally. Just because the e-book is free, you will
still find a carefully crafted display for each e-book. Specifically, when you are looking for an
e-book, you get to see great cover art, a well-done synopsis and a breakdown of
what category and subcategory the book belongs to. Another digital treat is
being able to see the word count, publisher, date published, language of
publication, and ISBN number at a glance.(more)
Written on 02/27/2013 at 1:00 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
Feedbooks is an e-book retail website with an excellent
selection of e-books that are free to download.
What makes this website unique is the ease of downloading e-books in
languages other than English. Feedbooks
has books available in French, Italian, Spanish and German. (more)
Written on 03/07/2013 at 12:23 pm by eBook-mom
Revised 01/28/16 by eBook-mom
Girlie Books is a retail e-book website that features classic and contemporary e-books entirely written by women. Website creators Laura and Joyce Mcdonald feel that "women authors are not always celebrated and promoted as they are today" not only do they feature women writers but they go out of their way to find "excellent but forgotten books that deserve a wider audience."(more)