You might be surprised by how many good free ebook sites there are out there. Nowadays, you can find pretty much any popular (and not) book online. You just need to know where to look. Here are my favorite free ebook sites.
Let me Spot out some 6 Best Sites first and then will list the entire list of sites:
1. Ebook Search Engines
These are simple Google-like search engines but for PDF files. I usually start my ebook search using one of these sites. Type in the title of the document or book name you’re looking for and click on the search button. Find your book in the search results and click on download link. Done.
So far my top 3 ebook search sites are:
- www.pdfgeni.com (MakeUseOf review)
www.pdf-search-engine.com (MakeUseOf review)
www.data-sheet.net (MakeUseOf review)
2. Scribd.com
In case you have never heard of this one before, the simplest way to define Scribd would be to call it Youtube for documents. People can upload whatever text documents they want and easily share them with others.
You’ll find lots and lots of free ebooks here. You only need to know what to look for. For instance try searching for George Orwell, Leo Tolstoi, etc.
And obviously it gets copyrighted ebooks much like YouTube gets copyrighted videos. I am not sure if they are doing anything to deal with them, but the fact is there are plenty of them on Scribd.
Oh and as we have mentioned before, Scribd is also an excellent resource for free document templates.
3. Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg (aka PG) has the largest collection of public domain books. These are the books that out of copyright and available for anyone to use for any purpose. Lots of books from the world’s greatest fiction authors such as Dickens, Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe fall into this category.
This site is the oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet. PG is an extremely popular site and now has over 20,000 works. If you’re not sure where to start check out their Top 100 page.
4. Free Ebooks For Your iPod, PDA, Smartphone, Blackberry etc.
For those of you who like to have ebooks on their portabe device we got some sites as well. Below are what I believe the best websites for books that can be read on mobile devices.
- www.gutenberg.org
www.manybooks.net (MakeUseOf Review)
www.feedbooks.com (MakeUseOf Review)
www.booksinmyphone.com (MakeUseOf Review)
For iPhone users in particular there is a website called TextOnPhne. It’s a great ebook site that comes with its own ebook reader app. There are over 30,000 free books for your Apple device. Check out the demo video here.
5. Free Tech Ebooks
These sites are mainly for tech books, covering everything from computer science, engineering and mathematics to programming and web development.
(Bonus) DailyLit
DailyLit is a bit different from the rest but I really like what they’re doing there. DailyLit can deliver a small excerpt from the book of your choice to your email on a daily basis. One excerpt per day, and so untill the book is finished.
The reason it wroks so well is that it only takes around 3-5 minutes to read each excerpt. If you feel like reading more you can request a next excerpt with a click of a button.
While more than a half of all books cost about $4.95 per book others are free. There are plenty of good titles among the free ones as well, some of my favorites include My Life and Work (by Henry Ford), Siddhartha (by Herman Hesse) and Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (by John D. Rockefeller). Check it out.
Are you aware of any other cool Best websites for ebooks? Share them in comments. Let me list the rest of them.
More PDF Books Sites - Part 1
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FreeBookSpot
FreeBookSpot is an online source of free ebooks download with 4485 FREE E-BOOKS in 96 categories which up to 71,97 GB.
You can search and download free books in categories like scientific, engineering, programming, fiction and many other books. No registration is required to download free e-books.
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4eBooks
4eBooks has a huge collection of computer programming ebooks. Each downloadable ebook has a short review with a description. You can find over thousand of free ebooks in every computer programming field like .Net, Actionscript, Ajax, Apache and etc.
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Free-eBooks
Free-eBooks is an online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.
You need to become a Free-EBooks.Net member to access their library. Registration is free.
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ManyBooks
ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader. You can randomly browse for a ebook through the most popular titles, recommendations or recent reviews for visitors. There are 21,282 eBooks available here and they’re all free!
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GetFreeEBooks
GetFreeEBooks is a free ebooks site where you can download free books totally free. All the ebooks within the site are legal downloadable free ebooks.
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FreeComputerBooks
FreeComputerBooks consists of a huge collection of free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories.
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FreeTechBooks
FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout FreeTechBooks, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.
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Scribd
Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
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Globusz
Globusz is a unique ePublishing house, specializing in free eBook downloads. They also provide an excellent Star Rating Showcase for new and evolving authors.
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KnowFree
KnowFree is a web portal where users are able to exchange freely e-books, video training and other materials for educational purposes and self-practice.
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OnlineFreeEBooks
OnlineFreeEBooks provides links to various ebooks (mostly in pdf) spanning in 9 big categories which are: Automotive Ebooks, Business Ebooks, Engineering Ebooks, Gadget Ebooks, Hardware Ebooks, Health & Medical Ebooks, Hobbies Ebooks, Programming & Technology Ebooks, Sport & Martial Art Ebooks.
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MemoWare
MemoWare has a unique collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) specially formatted to be easily added to your PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device.
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BluePortal
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OnlineComputerBooks
OnlineComputerBooks contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors.
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SnipFiles
SnipFiles offers you free ebooks and software legally by brought or attained PLR, resale or master rights to all the products on their page. -
BookYards
BookYards is a web portal in which books, education materials, information, and content will be freely to anyone who has an internet connection. -
The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a Listing over 30,000 free books on the Web. -
AskSam Ebooks
AskSam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books like Shakespeare, and assorted legal & governmental texts. -
Baen Free Library
Baen Free Library is an online library of downloadable science fiction novels. -
eBookLobby
Free ebooks in eBookLobby are divided into different categories. Categorys range from business, art, computing and education. Select the category appropriate to the e-book you’re looking for.
More Free eBook resources
- PlanetPDF – A small collection of classic novels all in PDF format.
- DailyLit – Read books online by daily email and RSS feed.
- Wikibooks – Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.
- Dwalin – Free novels in text format.
- Project Gutenberg – Free ebooks from producers.
- Adobe Free eBooks – In Adobe’s Free eBooks area, you can download, unlock, and read electronic books on your personal computer or reading device.
- Alive & Free – A page of links to some recent books from living authors available free online.
- Franklin – Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats.
- Read Easily – An ebook online library which has been designed to provide you an adaptive reading experience!
- PDFbooks – This new site offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books.
- Witguides – An online source for a wide range of useful e-books that are completely free with no need to sign-up or buy anything.
- Diesel eBooks -Offer free ebooks formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket.
- Free eBook Miners –
Free eBooks for your education, research or amusement. - Planet eBook –
Free classic literature to download and share. - e-Library – Plenty of free ebooks available for download.
- BookBoon – Provides free ebooks for students and travelers in PDF format. No registration is required.
More PDF Books Sites - Part 1
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Free Ebook Download Links
Free Ebook Download Links intends to provide links for downloading books available free in different format.The books are published online by their authors for free viewing and printing for non-commercial proposes only.
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eBoook3000
A library of free ebook downloads with over 17 categories available.
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SlideShare
SlideShare is the best way to share your presentations with the world. Let your ideas reach a broad audience. Share publicly or privately. Add audio to create a webinar.
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PDF Search Engine
PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files. You can find and download a tons of e-books by searching it or browsing through the full directory.
- eSnips
eSnips is the one place where you can share anything you want, about any topic: your thoughts, your photos, your music, your videos, your flash files, stuff you find on the web, and many other media types. You can search and download for free documents in eSnips as well.
- Book Gold Mine
Book Gold Mine serves a large collection of quality e-books, lectures, notes, and other kinds of documents at no cost to the user.
- eBooks-Space
Free downloadable ebooks for computer IT, programming lauguages, software development, tutorial, database design in PDF-CHM file format.
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drebooks
The vision of the founder was to provide an online space where Medical Students and Doctors could gather to share and collaborate their information and ideas about medical books.
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E-Books Directory
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.
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UFindBook
UFindBook offers free ebooks download more than 200,000 titles categorized in format of pdf, chm, html.
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Books-PDF
Books-PDF provides free ebooks for .Net, 3D animation, accounting, AJAX, algorithms, ASP.NET, AutoCAD, C#, C++, Database and etc.
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PDFoo
PDFoo.com was developed for free services to provide resources of PDF files. All files based on popular section and it short by number of the most download by people. Browse through the category section will lead you find the PDF files that you are looking for. Every time people download, or system will counting how many times it has download by people.
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Free Ebook Down
Free Ebook Down offers over 10,000 free ebooks in 22 categories.
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Free-Ebooks-Canada
Free-Ebooks-Canada searches for? free ebooks that either have PLR (Private Label Rights), MRR (Master Resell Rights), giveaway rights or personal use only. PLR( Private Label Rights)and MRR (Master Resell Rights)can be sold and modified to the extent of ebooks resell license. No Matter whether PLR, MRR or give-away any book can be used for personal information.
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eBooks Download Free
ebooks download free is One of the biggest books sharing websites that contains large collection of pdf and chm books free download you can download free books in many categories: Computer books like free php ebooks to download, ADO.NET, AJAX, java, ajax, photoshop, javascript Exchange Server, Sharepoint , ASP.NET XML free books downloads, c# and c+ books.
- PDFGeni
PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF ebooks, sheets, forms and documents.
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CHM PDF
A collection of general interest and technical ebooks.
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eBook-X
eBook-x lets you to download popular free ebooks, classical free ebooks, new releases and more.
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Spotbit
Spotbit.com provides paperless solution to publishing industry which end result is an E-Book make available in a unique and standalone digital format that is different from most formats available in the current market.
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Ebook Share
eBook Share provides free ebooks download in torrent format.You can search for an ebook in categories like magazine, programming, graphic design, networking, business and investing and the others.
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