Good evening, folks. I haven't been on board the ereading bandwagon for too long (it's probably been a year or two), and something that I've always struggled with has been finding good, free works. I confess that I've had less than pleasant experiences navigating Amazon, Kobo and Smashwords for their free selections; I'll just say that it's difficult to determine whether positive reviews are fabricated.
So, I've developed my own little list of places to acquire free ebooks. MobileRead, as the newest addition to this list, was discovered solely because I was searching for an alternative to Project Gutenberg with less OCR scanning! Let me, therefore, say
thank you for the service that you provide here. The library is so big that I don't even know where to begin!
However, public domain does eventually draw to a halt, and once you stop searching for public domain classics, it becomes all too easy to find yourself exploring a pirate website, only to realise what you're doing when you come across a book that should
very clearly not be free. Now, prior to discovering MobileRead, my four main sources of free ebook discovery were: Adelaide University, ManyBooks, Baen Books and Weavespinner, where James Galloway's free SFF books are compiled after release.
As you can imagine, now that I've found what appears to be an impeccable selection of public domain books, my list has been shortened significantly! In fact, the only place I now know of where I can acquire free ebooks which were not penned by James Galloway and are not public domain is Baen Books, and as I've discovered from attempting to search for this very topic, you're all very aware that some time ago they drastically reduced the amount of titles offered in their free library.
I'm at an impasse! Help me, MobileRead, for I am not a regular library patron! The 'Deals, Freebies, and Resources' sub-forum looks splendid, but there's too much happening in there and I can't make heads or tails of it!
What are your most frequently visited websites for this purpose?
