As a kid growing up in a small town in rural Arkansas, I was blessed to live within walking distance of a truly awesome small library. I would have loved having online access to all of the books I wanted.
I found a huge list of free books sites at Fried Beef’s Tech and I added some of my favorites to it. Enjoy!
- ManyBooks Free eBooks for your PDA, iPod, or eBook reader
- BookCrossing Where real books are released into the wild to be found by others
- LibraryElf The perfect companion to a public library system
- FreeComputerBooks — Huge collection of computer, programming, math, technology, lecture notes, and tutorials
- Scribd Open library to publish and discover documents online
- Word Public Library 400,000 PDF ebooks for download
- Free Tech Books Free computer science and engineering books, with?lecture notes
- Bookins Swap books with other readers
- OnlineFreeEBooks 9 categories that include business, automotive, hobbies, medical, martial arts, health
- Wowio Public domain, free legitimate?copyrighted?materials, and one of the few sites that has comic books
- BizBooktalk Free book giveaway contests on Fridays
- CHMPDF A collection of general interest and technical ebooks
- Realtime Publishers Free IT eBooks by many of the world’s best authors
- FrugalReader Trade Books for free
- TitleTrader Swap books, movies, and music
- ZunaFish Trade your old media and books items for new titles you’d rather have
- SwapSimple Swap your used books here
- FreeTechBooks Engineering and programming books and textbooks
- SwapThing Community of users who swap items including books
- BookCart Internet paperback exchange
- SF-Books Exchange Sci-Fi Books here
- PaperbackSwap Swap books for free
- PinkMonkey – 450 Study Guides / Booknotes / Online Chapter Summary Notes and Analysis
- eBookWorld Technical resources
- Flaxx IT and computer books
- Baen Library Free science fiction and fantasy novels
- LibraryThing Social networking and free books
- Online Books Page Facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet
- Glubusz Another great list
- Podiobooks Free audiobooks that you can subscribe to with iTunes
- BookRags Research material in the form of eBooks
- Technical Books Online Old tech books from the ?vacuum tube age? of electronic
- KnowFree Exchange books and videos for educational purposes and self-practice
- ebookSearchr Google powered
- Internet Archive The Intenet indexed ? that includes a vast?text library
- BookYards Books, videos, education materials
- GetFreeEBooks Another great site
- The Online Books Page More than 30,000 free books
- DocStoc Online document sharing website
- Gutenberg Project Top 100 The oldest producer of free ebooks on the Internet
- BookMooch Community for exchanging used books
- ebookSpyder Specializes in technical books ranging anywhere from C# to AJAX
- Google Book Search Read the classics online
- Dwalin Plain text novels
- Baen Free Library Downloadable science fiction
- Free-eBooks You can also download free magazines and submit your own ebook
- FreeBookSpot Online source of more than 4,000 free books in 96 categories
- Free Computer Books Technical resources about computers
- Librivox Audio works and podcasts of books
- WIkibooks Free textbooks
- DailyLit Receive small parts of books via email
Many thanks to Fried Beef’s Tech for compiling much of this awesome list.
