If you bought your eReader expecting it to make you smarter, more literary and more money-savvy, you may have been surprised by just how pricey downloadable eBooks can be. But wait! There’s another way!
Before you start your next game of on line bingo, why not start downloading a totally free eBook from one of our brilliant resources below? You’ll have your nose in a free, new book before you can say “Two Fat Ladies”.
1. Project Gutenburg
More than 45,000 eBooks are online at Project Gutenburg, ready to be downloaded for free! Epub, pdf, Kindle – whatever format you need your eBook in, Project Gutenburg have what you need. They’re especially good for interesting non-fiction and academic books.
2. Bookyards
From ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus to great cult French author Emile Zola, Bookyards has thousands of titles all available to download for free. Browse by author, category or search for something specific, then download your new tome in PDF, convert it to kobo or epub format and get stuck in to your next free book!
3. Open Culture
This website may only have 600 eBooks available, but they’ve worked hard to put together a really good collection full of all the classics and must-reads. Jane Austen, Dostoyevsky, Hemmingway, James Joyce – everything you’ve always meant to get round to reading is right here are ready to be downloaded for free.
4. Bibliotastic
Now for something a little different. Bibliotastic are all about hooking up independent authors with open-minded readers. They allow unpublished authors to create and publish free eBooks of their work, they give keen readers on the hunt for something new to download free, contemporary eBooks. Not everyone’s a winner, but the recommendations are certainly not bad!
5. Alive and Free
This website curates links to hundreds of the very best, brand new eBooks and stories from up—and-coming authors so you can wrap your eyes around some of the most exciting modern literature before big publishers can even get a whiff of it. Great if you’re an adventurous reader who likes to keep up with the latest stuff.
6. The Online Books Page
You can’t download eBooks directly from this site, but you will find more than a million free eBooks from all over the web ready to be found on this gigantic website.
What’s the best eBook you’ve read recently? Do you have any great sites bookmarked for free page-turners? Share your bookwormery with our reader
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