The Great 'Free Online Books' Hunt.

meheraltaf

cheers, also one which I have put on a different thread

For doctors
http://www.freebooks4doctors.com/

And for Family Reference a Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/index.html

klondyke

Just to reiterate

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg is a volunteer site with thousands of volunteers (including me) proof reading scanned copies of books already in the public domain (ie out of copyright), so you won't find your very modern books here. But for classics and other older books it's a fantastic source of free downloads.

Go help them proofread some more! (It isn't like correcting grammar/spelling etc, but checking whether OCR has created oddities in spacing and footnotes or misinterpreted smudges on scanned copy)

crana999

It's slightly different, but you can listen to book adaptations/books read aloud for free with online radio. Try BBC 7 and Radio 4 on the BBC website.

idiaz

One of the best sites I've come across is the Internet Archive Project at http://www.archive.org/details/opensource. Its a collection of not only Open source books (Million Book Project) but numerous media types including audio, video and software resources. Besides it provides a searchable index to most of the other major Open source digital collections including Project Gutenberg.
Most of the collections are available as DjVu documents which makes downloading and viewing much easier. I came across it while searching for old books/manuscripts not available any more and it has proved a treasure trove till now!

Another fantastic site is the University of Pennsylvania Online books page at http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ Their collection of 'Banned Books' (Books prohibited at times by governments worldwide) is excellent.

Enjoy!

volare

For the Sci Fi lovers, publisher Baen has a selection of its books for free, several formats like MS Reader as well as read online.

http://www.baen.com/library/

al.green_2

buymemanolos wrote:

Hello! First post!
Can't believe no one's yet mentioned the Google Print Search. This offers thousands of books in a scanned-in format, you can read page by page (including illustrations). Very
useful.

http://print.google.com/

Note, google print is a searchable index of books, not a way of reading them in their entirity. As such, for copyrighted books, a number of pages will definitly be unavailable. These books are provided to google by publishers in an attempt to entice people to buy the full book.
That said, you should be able to read out of copyright books.

Personally, my favourite is Project Gutenberg.

pin

al.green wrote:

Note, google print is a searchable index of books, not a way of reading them in their entirity. As such, for copyrighted books, a number of pages will definitly be unavailable. These books are provided to google by publishers in an attempt to entice people to buy the full book.
That said, you should be able to read out of copyright books.

Personally, my favourite is Project Gutenberg.

Don't Amazon offer a similar service as well?

deedo_2

bookrags is a very good site i,ve used for ages you have to register though.

Stumpy

If you like Dr Who, the BBC have some free books here.

Moocow_3

Hi

You can read books on your mobile phone if you put this address in your phone: http://hup2.com/books

There are not many books there at the moment as I have just finished the site but if you would like any added, just suggest them to me in the contacts page of the site.

Chris