If someone wishes to cross-post this to another relevant thread, such as a Fiction one of some kind, please be my guest.
I ran across a website that claims (I didn't count them. ha) to offer 1000
free ebooks. It is the website for Sainsbury's Entertainment in the U.K. I don't remember seeing it mentioned anywhere on the MobileRead website before.
I feel fairly certain that all of these ebooks are going to be out of copyright. However, I didn't recognize many of the titles and/or authors, so there may be some in this collection that you can't get at the usual suspects like Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, Google Books,
et al.
With this being a non-U.S. (it's in the U.K.) website, however, there may be--and probably are--books that are out of copyright there, but not here in the U.S. I do not have the knowledge about such matters to say positively, but it is my understanding that you cannot legally
download them in the U.S. if the U.S. does not recognize the works as being out-of-copyright. Unfortunately there seems to be no way to read the ebooks, without downloading them (FYI--the one ebook that I tested was available only in ePub).
You must set up an account in order to select books, I don't remember how much is involved there, as I've had an account with Sainsbury's for quite some time now. Once you have set up an account, the ebooks that you select will be placed in your personal "library" on their website, for you to download when you wish to.
Anyway, here's
the URL for the free ebooks webpage at Sainsbury's for you to check out if you so desire.