Other Free Books in English

Abacci Books This unusual site makes Project Gutenberg free e-book classics available for download together with reviews of those books from Amazon.com. Includes links to buy a hard copy if desired. Access books by author, title, category or most popular.
http://www.abacci.com/books/default.asp

Abacci eBooks Over a thousand free e-books for the Pocket PC & the PC (LIT files formatted for Microsoft Reader). Includes Amazon.com reviews. A selection of both classic & lesser-known works, thanks to site owner Peter Shanks, who personally formatted many.
http://www.abacci.com/msreader/default.aspx

Alive & Free A page of links to some recent books from living authors available free on-line. Warning: many controversial authors & titles here.
http://www.c3f.com/alivfree.html

Ask Sam ebooks Free searchable e-books. Some classic literature, US Govt reports, legislative, legal, judicial & political documents. NB: Requires registration & downloading the free askSam viewer software to use. Check file size before downloading e-books, as some can be very large. http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/

New Asiaing Offers an eclectic mix of news about magazines, books, reports & other reading and viewing material. The e-book section offers online access to a varied range of intelligent, non-fiction books, and in some cases PDF downloads.
http://www.asiaing.com

Baen Free Library
Participating authors place free electronic versions of their works here, usually the first novel or novels in an ongoing series. More than forty writers are represented, essentially in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres. You can either read them online, or download zipped file versions in HTML, Microsoft Reader, Palm/Mobipocket, Rocket/Ebookwise or RTF formats. Registration is requested.
http://www.baen.com/library

BestWebsitesPortal.com This site features a select list of specialised websites related to literature, including free online e-books.
http://www.bestwebsitesportal.com/Literature.htm

Bookrags have 1,500 classic titles available, for Palm or other handheld devices.
http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks.html

New Diesel Gratis Collection Over 750 free e-books representing more than 400 authors, formatted for both Microsoft Reader and Mobipocket. Includes classic American and British fiction, U.S. history, children's literature, Shakespeare, African-American documents and more. Browsable by author, title or subject . From Diesel eBooks.
http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/category/free_download

Dr Jack Cross's Electronic Archive A collection of Dr Jack Cross's writings, plus major historical works deposited with the Bodleian Library. Many are PDFs. Under "Fragments of our Lives: Primary Sources" includes many of the seminal historical source documents of the modern Western world, from Homer's The Odyssey and The Iliad, & The History of Herodotus toThe Anglo Saxon Chronicle and key works by Dante, Milton, Goethe, Darwin and many more.
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/djp/cross/

Ebooks4free Links to" free e-books and manuscripts, historical documents & literature, religion & magik, audio readings and much more.." Multilingual site - languages include English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Latin. The inner search engine actually translates into three languages: English Italian and (surprisingly!) Latin. In plain text, RTF, HTML, downloadable as.zip files, or as PDFs.
http://www.ebooks4free.net

Elegant Solutions Software Company have a great free e- book site, with books downloadable to your PC: Motto:" Ebooks for people who think". Don't forget to check out Kate's page or the children's page there, for wonderful classic tales for young & old.
http://esspc-ebooks.com/default.htm

FlipBooks Books prepared to be read in the FlipViewer (see Software Page). A highly visual format especially suitable for displaying albums of images etc.
http://www.fliplibrary.com

Franklin Free Library Thousands of free titles in text and HTML file formats. Some titles are also available for purchase as Franklin Reader formatted e-books.
http://www.franklin.com/freelibrary

Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyberbooks Over fifty new novels ranging over many genres, including SF/Fantasy, mystery, romance, humour and lots more. A gift from new authors seeking your attention. How about Isildur, Brian K. Crawford's Lord of the Rings prequel? Either as HTML or as downloadable files.
http://www.starry.com/free-online-novels/index.htm

In Fact Book Search A site with a difference, enabling you to access topics within books (e.g. people, places, organisations) from over14,000 free and downloadable Project Gutenberg online books. In plain text format. With each search you'll also gain leads to related content.
http://books.infact.com

Literature @ SunSITE Collection of digital literary texts from famous, mostly U.S.authors. May be read online, printed, or downloaded for further study.
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Literature/

Lysator Free e-books Lysator is a lively academic computer society & major e-publishing stalwart located at Linköping University in Sweden. Here are a few miscellaneous e-texts they offer.
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts

manybooks.net Free PDA e-books. Many thousands of public domain e-books from Project Gutenberg and elsewhere. They're available here either to read online in plain text, or formatted to download for the Adobe Reader, Palm eReader, Palm Doc, iSilo, Rocketbook and other e-reader softwares.
http://manybooks.net/
Go to"WAP-enabled" mnybks.net (http://mnybks.net/) for free e-books for your mobile phone (cellphone).
For PSP (PlayStation Portable)-friendly e-books, visit :http://psp.manybooks.net/

Mary Jo's E-texts for the Palm Her selections include the Oz Books, a number of classics in literature, & various fan fiction. All files are zipped for easy downloading.
http://www.dogpatch.org/etext.html

Memoware have lots of free documents in a multiplicity of categories and a variety of formats for Palms & other PDAs. Award-winning site.
http://www.memoware.com

MS (Microsoft) Reader (.lit) e- books: Over 1,500 available. You may search the listings by "author", "title" & "most popular" headings.
http://www.mslit.com/default.asp?mjr=FRE

PalmPilot E-Text Ring 80+ sites featuring free or for-purchase texts formatted for Palm readers.
http://www.pda-archives.com/pilot/10.htm

PDA Librarian Jill Thompson of Greencastle-Antrim High School in Pennsylvania's site. Jill offers small but carefully-chosen selections in the following categories: Outstanding Books for the College Bound; Best Novels Written in the English Language; Downloads Available by Author; Great Books For Teens; Political Documents. Also Educational Uses For PDAs, plus other helpful information.
http://user.pa.net/~thompson/

New PDF Books This new site offers around 4,700 downloadable public domain e-books, classified alphabetically by author. They're all .pdf files, but you can have them either as standard PDF or mobile versions for a small screen (with five times as many pages).
http://www.pdfbooks.co.za/

Phoenix Library Based on the Rocket eBook, but now offering titles in several languages & a wide range of formats (Adobe, Microsoft, MobiPocket & Franklin in addition to the Rocket/ REB reader editions).
http://www.phoenix-library.org

New Planet eBook A collection of around forty leading classic novels, in English, as PDF files. There are no restrictions on the non-commercial use of these quality editions.
http://www.planetebook.com/

Planet PDF Free eBooks area Recent asset for popular classic novels in the PDF format.
http://www.planetpdf.com/mainpage.asp?webpageid=2311

PocketPC Books More than forty free e- books (mostly popular classics) in over a dozen genres, prepared for the PocketPC in Microsoft Reader (.lit format). These editions are under a creative commons licence, so they can also be copied or given away freely (unaltered and for non-commercial purposes). The site has on-page translation available in six European languages. http://www.pocketpcbooks.net/

New PublicLiterature.Org Samples of the work of established and aspiring writers (e.g. poetry, book excerpts, short stories & plays), presented as a blog. Also around 70 classic books online as text, many also as audio.
http://publicliterature.org/

Qvadis Library offers nearly 6,000 e-text titles in 32 categories, all free. All formatted for Palm OS devices.
http://www.qvadis.com/exlibris/ebooks.html#library

Read Print A great selection of free classic novels, stories, plays and non-fiction available online from over ninety authors. Browse the author list for your favourites.
http://www.readprint.com

Scorpius Digital Publishing have many free e-books available at: http://scorpiusdigital.com/freebooks/index.html Only in Microsoft Reader however.


StoneGarden Net Publishing Free or inexpensive e-books in both fiction and nonfiction. In Microsoft Reader and Adobe PDF formats. Registration (free) with this site is required.
http://www.stonegarden.net

Tale Wins Marleen Roberts' site for authors & readers.
http://www.talewins.com

Webooks.com eLibrary Links to over 2,200 free e-books in html, for reading online. In sixteen broad categories, also includes journals & magazines.
http://www.web-books.com/cool/ebooks/Library.htm

Witguides Large range of topics include health and fitness, computing, pets, parenting, sports, entertainment and more. NB: These books are prepared as downloadable zip files that you unzip to read offline. They show you relevant Amazon books you might like to read as well.
http://www.witguides.com/

WORD IQ Over ten thousand online e-books, in plain text. Available in order of popularity or search for title.
http://www.wordiq.com/books/index.php

NB: Many commercial e-bookstores also offer a number of free e-books on their sites.