Where to Find Free Online Books

If you just blew your budget buying an ipad or kindle ...and don't have money to actually buy books, see some quality resources for online books:

Online Books Page of the University of Pennsylvania -one million+ free books; a majority are older titles but some are newer

• use for research! for example - browse by call number or alphabetical subject list
  many of the titles are pulled from U.S. govt. docs and the Gutenberg Project
• browse Library of Congress subjects and find: Measuring America: The Decennial Censuses From 1790 to 2000, by Jason Gauthier (PDF at census.gov)
• You can read many banned books online! see curated list of banned books

Project Gutenberg - digital books with expired copyrights  

• use for research -& and bookmark while reading!
• see: top 100 downloads
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  see also: offline book catalogs to download and use at home

Read Print Library - thousands of classics books online; see also poems & short stories

AskSam Ebooks has a collection of free e-books (classic literature), and legal and government texts.

BookBoon – Provides free ebooks textbooks for students and travelers in PDF format. No registration is required.

Book Gold Mine - large collection of quality e-books, lectures, notes, and other kinds of documents at no cost to the user; great for computer science, business, biology, physics, and math texts

EBooks Directory - 5572 free e-books in 535 categories - free web resource which contains links to free downloadable e-books, technical papers, documents, as well as user contributed content, articles, reviews and comments. 


Alex Catalogue of Electronic Books: focus is on history and philosophy titles

Google Books: one million+ titles in the public domain


Bartleby - diverse collection


Great Books and Classics: as advertised in the title, a collection of classics

Kindle Resources:

I Love My Kindle - blog for finding some ebook deals

A Kindle World Blog - finding Amazon deals


Free Kindle Classics List from Amazon