Free e-books

[Dr. Strange]

Post some links to free e-books that you've enjoyed. Come and share the freeness.

[Dr. Strange]

1. Muscle Memory

For the next five days, this Kindle book is free:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004TGTFAC/ref=tsm_1_fb_lk

Funny stuff!

[amyrose2712]

2. Free Ebooks and Audiobooks

http://www.gutenberg.org/
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[LARED]

9. Thanks, I just downloaded a bunch of book for my kindle nt

[Dr. Strange]

3. A Friday the 13th special: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Columbine.

For one day only, so hurry the hell up!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006BZOWP2/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thepabsungeni-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B006BZOWP2

Extra points if you can figure out which DUer wrote it!

[The Straight Story]

4. Here are a few:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

One of Favorites:
http://www.archive.org/details/americana

Loads of cool books especially this one: http://www.archive.org/details/handwritingofgod00randuoft

Awesome travel book from the 1860's, journey starts in Central Ohio, trains, boats, camels, just awesome.

Lots of free ones here too:
http://books.google.com/ebooks

[The Straight Story]

5. This short story from Conan Doyle:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/126

The poison belt. Awesome end of the world type story.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

6. here's a link

Use this link at your own discretion.

I've never used this site before. It didn't set off any alarms with my antivirus software, but you never know. Anyway, I searched Google for a particular book, and saw this site in the results. It appears to just let you download ebooks. I tried Christopher Paolini's Inheritance, and even though there's a login page, I didn't have to log in.

After going to the site, I clicked on the Paolini book, which brought up another page. On that second page, I right-clicked "Download for iPad/iPhone", and did a Save As, and the book is on my PC now. I double-checked, and the entire book is there.

I performed a few more searches in an attempt to see how fully-featured the site was. I found lots of Stephen King, lots of Hunger Games, but I didn't find any Salman Rushdie.

One more time, I hadn't seen this site before today, and I cannot vouch for it, but at least right this minute, it's permitting me to download ebooks with no login. It may be run by Russian hackers, or by the NSA, or by some book enthusiast--I just don't know. Good luck.

http://edu.epubbud.com/browse.php

[getting old in mke]

7. A few

General

Project Gutenberg

Mentioned above, PG has lots and lots and lots. Many of them are in mobi or epub formats in addition to others. Maybe the most interesting way to browse is through their bookshelves:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Bookshelf

Science Fiction

Baen Free Library: http://www.baen.com/library/intro.asp

About 125 SF/Fantasy books published by Baen Books. Intro essay also talks about Eric Flint's logic in putting it together.

Fifth Imperium: http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com

Largely the same books as above with some differences, organized differently. Baen often puts in CDs with books in their main series with previous volumes, etc. Fifth Imperium has all the CDs mounted. (The are sanctioned by Baen, not a pirate site.)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

8. Some of mine

The iTunes store has a lot of free books. I downloaded the entire Sherlock Holmes canon and read them recently, but there are also a lot of other Victorian novels and literary classics available, such as two that are on my iPhone now, The Princess and the Goblin, a fantasy novel that I enjoyed a lot as a child, and No Name by Willkie Collins, the author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White.

[ohheckyeah]

10. Wow -

I just went to my list of books at Amazon and every free Kindle book I got now has a charge.

[Dr. Strange]

11. A post from the SciFi group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1200158

Some free Peter Watts.

[russspeakeasy]

12. Thanks.