Where to Find Free E-Books?

What’s an E-Book
An E-Book is an electronic version of a previously published and printed book. Usually one can download an E-Book using free programs like Adobe® Reader®. The book can then be read off a computer screen, a laptop, eBook readers, or palm pilots and iphones etc.

Its importance has increased manyfold as the people are moving more often and have a nomadic life-style. The books in the picture will all fit in a 500GB external hard drive (amazing, isn't it!). No wonder, holding a book is altogether a different feeling but as books are hard to find - not all countries will cater to your needs -this is indeed a good choice. My first dicovery was "Project Gutenberg" back in 2003 - I was so excited that I had access to the books that my father had in hardcover. Since then, I have seen a gradual increase in the websites and options on the internet for E-books. Needless to say, this has saved a lot of money as well.

Where to Find Free E-books
There are several places to find free books which can be downloaded in various formats and converted if necessary. For classics Project Gutenberg is a great website but otherwise, Google books is awesome too. Choices are many – it depends on what one would like to read. At times, all that is required is to sign up or register at the website and get entitlemnt to read/download books for free.

•Project Gutenberg mentioned above is a great site with thousands of books available in the public domain. Classics are their strength - both in English as well as in all the different languages. It has an option where one can upload books of their choice for the public at large! I would love to see a book in Urdu on Project Gotenburg - which they do NOT have - as of now!

•Google Book Search – First of all use “Advanced Book Search” and then select “Full view only” for some creative commons / public domain books.

•ManyBooks.net – This website has thousands of books - they’re all free with multiple formats available for download.

•FeedBooks.com - more free books, compatible with most mobile devices and has a great selection to choose from.

•Suvudu.com – a new science fiction portal Suvudu from Random House which has monthly free books to download. You can sign up for their newsletter to get notified when new titles are available.

•Girlebooks.com – “free ebooks by the gals” - classics and titles by lesser-known female authors, all free.

I would love to know about your favourite free e-book sites. :D

Happy reading! ^^