Other Free Books in English

sk Sam ebooks Free searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt reports, legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. NB: Requires registration & downloading the free askSam viewer software to use offline; you may browse texts directly online. Check file size & consider your Web access speed before downloading these e-books, as some can be very large downloads.
www.asksam.com/ebooks/
Asiaing Offers an eclectic mix of news about magazines, books, reports & other reading and viewing material. The e-book section offers online access to a varied range of intelligent, non-fiction books, and in some cases PDF downloads.
www.asiaing.com
New Authorama A selection of Public Domain classic books or Creative Commons licensed texts. In XHTML, for your Web browser. Mostly in English, some German. From Philipp Lenssen of Stuttgart.
www.authorama.com/
Baen Free Library
Participating authors place free electronic versions of their works here, usually the first novel or novels in an ongoing series. More than forty writers are represented, essentially in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres. You can either read them online, or download zipped file versions in HTML, Microsoft Reader, Palm/Mobipocket, Rocket/Ebookwise or RTF formats. Registration is requested.
www.baen.com/library
BestWebsitesPortal.com This site features a select list of specialised websites related to literature, including free online e-books.
www.bestwebsitesportal.com/Literature.htm
New Bookboon Free travel guides, academic books for students and soon books about business, in PDF format. The texts are sponsored by in-book advertisements, and are mostly in English, with a few others in Danish, Dutch, German and Swedish. Note that these are large downloads, more suitable for broadband.
http://bookboon.com/int
Bookrags have 1,500 classic titles available. Read online in HTML free, or subscribe to downloadable study packs.
www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html
Diesel Gratis Collection New is access to free, ePub format classic titles derived from Google Books. Stiil available are over 750 free e-books representing more than 400 authors, formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket. Includes classic American and British fiction, U.S. history, children's literature, Shakespeare, African-American documents and more. Browsable by author, title or subject . From Diesel eBooks.
www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download
The Digital Book Index "A Union catalog(ue) of Electronic books, texts and documents." The Digital Book Index provides links to more than 148,000 full-text digital books and other documents, from more than 1,800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and private sites. You can search this site by author, title etc, or browse by subjects or specific publisher lists. Please note however that not all material is free. An extremely useful resource, however, for tertiary students and scholars.
www.digitalbookindex.org/search001a.htm

Dr Jack Cross's Electronic Archive A collection of Dr Jack Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the Bodleian Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of the modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad, & The History of Herodotus toThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe, Darwin and many more.
www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/
Ebooks4free Provides links to public domain books in the genres of literature, history, science, religion, philosophy, esoterica, manuals and fairy tales. Also hosts over thirty recent books submitted by their authors. In addition, the Google-based "free ebooks meta search" box here will also search 89 free e-book sites.
www.ebooks4free.net
Elegant Solutions Software Company have a great free e-book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto: "Ebooks for people who think". Don't forget to check out the children's page there, for wonderful classic tales for young & old. In Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket formats.
http://esspc-ebooks.com/
FlipBooks Books prepared in the Flipbook format, to be read in the FlipViewer (see our Software Page). A highly visual format, especially suitable for displaying albums of images etc. Their books are grouped by Arts and Culture, (general) Books, Entertainment, Hobbies and Interest, Nature and Scenery, People, Pets, Sports, and Travel. As of mid-2010, there were more than 7,000 Flipbooks available here.
www.fliplibrary.com
Franklin Free Library Thousands of free titles formatted for the eBookman device (as .seb files). Some titles are also available for purchase as Franklin Reader formatted e-books.
www.franklin.com/freelibrary
New FreeFictionBooks.org A growing collection of freely accessible fiction items (mostly public domain works) presented online in plain text. They're listed alphabetically by title, and the books are split into single pages for easier reading and bookmarking (NB: you can't download them by chapters or whole texts). Site registration is not required, but you need to create an account (it's free) if you wish to contribute new books or use additional features such as bookmarking, This recent (July 2010) site is hosted in Slovenia.
www.freefictionbooks.org
Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks Over fifty new novels ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A gift from new authors seeking your attention. How about Isildur, Brian K. Crawford's Lord of the Rings prequel? Either as HTML or as downloadable zipped files. Warning, browsing here may be addictive...
www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htm
Literature @ SunSITE Collection of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors, such as Stephen Crane and Upton Sinclair. Plus, various relevant notes and commentaries. May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/
manybooks.net By July 2010 the appropriately-named manybooks was hosting about 28,000 public domain or Creative Commons-licensed e-books, all free & without any strings attached. Bravo, manybooks!. Most derive from Project Gutenberg. They're available here either to read online in plain text, or formatted to download in ePub, as zipped HTML files, as PDFs for the Adobe Reader, prepared for (Palm) eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook and other softwares.
http://manybooks.net/
*Go to"WAP-enabled" mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/) for free e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone), including the iPhone. For PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/
Memidex Free online dictionary/thesaurus. Browse alphabetically or use the simple FIND box. The database is derived from an expanded and improved version of Princeton University's WordNet. Both UK & US spellings here - a goodie!
www.memidex.com
Memoware have lots of free e-books and documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats, intended for Palms & other PDAs. They also sell e-books. Award-winning site.
www.memoware.com
New Obooko Launched from England late in 2009, Obooko provides a publishing platform for authors who wish to make e-books of their contemporary works available free. Numerous genres are represented here, with over thirty major categories listed. In PDF format only, and you need to join the site to participate (it's free). NB: Please note and observe the copyright restrictions (e.g. you may even print the books for personal use if desired, but not sell or use them commercially). Daily download restrictions may apply.
www.obooko.com
PalmPilot Archives Lists many sites featuring free texts formatted for Palm readers.
www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm
PDF Books This recent site offers nearly five thousand downloadable public domain e-books, classified alphabetically by author or title. They're all .pdf files, but you can obtain them either as standard PDFs for desk & laptops, or iPads etc, or as mobile versions for a small screen (with five times as many pages). As well as classics there are random articles, and a small, separate collection of new, unpublished works courtesy of their authors.
www.pdfbooks.co.za/
Planet eBook A collection of around eighty leading classic novels, in English, as PDF files. There are no restrictions on the non-commercial use of these quality editions.
www.planetebook.com/
Planet PDF Free eBooks area Recent asset for popular classic novels in the PDF format - nearly seventy here. Also offers nitroPDF software, a compact alternative to Adobe. Check out the free conversion software too (PDFs to Word, RTF, EXcel).
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp
New Planetfreebook Recent site offering a collection of 4,000+ classic, public domain titles arranged alphabetically by author surname, forename and book title (or use the search function).. Cookbooks section too. Texts are in PDF format for the Adobe Reader and other PDF readers. No registration required. Business people, check out the free online Trade Magazine offers (USA only), and other business documents.
www.planetfreebook.com/
PublicLiterature.Org "A collection of only the finest literature". Around 250 classic books online, from A Christmas Carol to Wuthering Heights.. Also, samples of the work of established and aspiring writers (e.g. book excerpts, short stories & plays, poetry). Contributors welcome.
http://publicliterature.org/
Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS mobile devices, in the DOC file format (NB: DOC should not be confused with MS Word .doc files).
www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library
Read Print A great selection of over eight thousand free classic novels, short stories, plays, essays and non-fiction, available to read online in HTML. From over 3,500 authors, whose images & selected quotes accompany. Browse the author list for your favourites.
www.readprint.com
Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html Only in Microsoft Reader format however. Requires joining the Scorpius Free Books Group to access these books.

Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors & readers. Further down the home page find free books in a range of genres, e.g. romance, adventure, westerns, kids books & short stories. As downloadable .exe files or PDFs, or read some online in HTML.
www.talewins.com
Webooks.com eLibrary Over 1,400 classic free e-books, plus over 40 contemporary books (including full-length textbooks). In downloadable ePub format, or HTML for reading online. Offered In sixteen broad categories, also includes journals & magazines.
www.web-books.com/e/Library
WebLiterature This recent site, a worthy private effort from Mrs S Dey, aims to supply much free classic literature in English. Contents include nearly 7,000 titles - greatest novels, short stories, essays, poems and some non-fiction. For reading online, in chapters.
www.webliterature.net
Witguides Large range of topics include health and fitness, computing, pets, parenting, sports, entertainment and more. NB: These books are prepared as downloadable zip files that you unzip to read offline. For a Windows OS PC use Winzip or PKZip programs to unzip; for a Macintosh use StuffIt, ZipIT or Unzip .. The site shows you relevant Amazon books you might like to read as well.
www.witguides.com/
WORD IQ Over ten thousand online e-books, in plain text. Available in order of popularity or search for title.
www.wordiq.com/books/index.php
NB: Many commercial e-bookstores also offer a number of free e-books on their sites.

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