Big List of Mostly Free Books - Kindle Centric

[exreader]

With so many friends getting eReaders, especially Kindles, I want to give them quick access to the bounty... So I made this list up. I know that a lot of the materials posted around are included in here, but it's a place to start for newbies, and might contain some surprises Enjoy!


exreader

Sources of online books compiled by JoeG
Updated: 2009-03-13


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o Mobile DOWNLOADING of .mobi books from supported sites:

From your Kindle, open your web browser, and enter the URLS as below:

o The Many Books site: http://www.mnybks.net

o The feedbooks guide is at: http://www.feedbooks.com/mobile/kindle

o The mobileread guide is at: https://www.mobileread.com/mobiguide

These guides will let you review what's on each site WITHOUT having to
use whisper net and drain the battery. When you are ready, you can then
activate whispernet, then do the download, then turn it off.

SWEET - MOBIlity!


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o More Meta Lists:

o https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=26 - mobilereads deals and freebies! meta!

o http://finding-free-ebooks.blogspot.com/ ANOTHER meta list...

o http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/ - lots and lots of Kindle and PDF and STUFF

o http://www.ebookweek.com/partners.html - meta list pointing to various e-book reading
resources and good things cheap/free.


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o Specific Books:

o http://cliffjburns.wordpress.com/novels/ - two novels that seem kinda _dresden files_ like

o http://www.ebooksjustpublished.com/2...hal-spacejock/ -> http://www.spacejock.com.au/Hal1Download.html

o get it here: (lazy registration required): in PDF HTML Mobi/Kindle ePub
http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=...=blog&id=17206
sequel to _moonheart_ (which isn't a current free ebook (yet)), it apparently stands alone nicely.

o Baen CD 17 "Storm from the Shadows" is out at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/


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o Find the free stuff at Amazon - potentially dated material - act now! 3500+ books

o WHOA! http://www.amazon.com/Cooks-Illustra.../dp/B001RF3U9U
FREE DOWNLOAD! (pre-order NOW! for March 26th), references:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...0kindle%20free

o Some specific Amazon titles:
o http://www.suvudu.com/freelibrary/ has pointers to Kindle store
o http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...kinw_tu_sims_3 - Blood Engines - Magics
o http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f=kinw_tu_ts_3 - His Majesty's Dragons
o http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...f=kinw_tu_ts_2 - Assassin's Apprentice
o http://www.amazon.com/Healthy-House-.../dp/B001QXCBGG
o http://www.amazon.com/The-Autobiogra.../dp/B000JMLMXI
o http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Samur.../dp/B000JQUAUK free
o http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Bible-Eng.../dp/B001EOCFU4
o http://www.amazon.com/Divine-Comedy-.../dp/B000JMKW9S
o http://www.amazon.com/Fairy-Tales-Ev.../dp/B000JMLNHI

o find any given free amazon book, and chase down the "customers bought this item also bought"
for many more free Kindle downloads often time.

o http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers...f=kinw_tu_ts_f
same, top Kindle sellers. those without prices are typically $0.00 (free!) - check first before buying

o OR goto the kindle store and change the sort from "lowest to highest" and start scrolling through
page of free books ... and scrolling and scrolling


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o http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm - Nice large meta list


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o Mobile Read Forums

Discussions on mobile and electronic ink reading
o https://www.mobileread.com
o Scanned images, massive corrections over gutenberg:
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Comp..._at_MobileRead


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o Baen Books

Features non DRMed books in various formats, including mobipocket/.prc
for palm/kindle, text, html,

o http://www.baen.com/ - Main site
o http://www.baen.com/library/ - "Free" Library
o http://www.webscription.net - Baen hosting site for Free Library
o Example book and formats:
http://www.webscription.net/p-167-future-imperfect.aspx
o Compilations of Baen CDs (more than 150 unique novel titles)
http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/


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o Feedbooks

Lots and lots of well formatted books pre-formatted, ready to go. Good
version of Grimm's Fairy Tales (60 stories), FireFly, and much more

o http://feedbooks.com - Main site

o http://feedbooks.com/discover/view_book/187 - Grimm's Fairy 60
o http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/book/2217 - FireFly Book
'''I've got a new Firefly novel. I'll be in my bunk.'''


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o MobiPocket

o http://www.mobipocket.com - Main site, tools, etc
o http://www.mobipocket.com/freebooks/default.aspx - Free Books (11,000++)

One special gripe: MobiPocket, despite a claim of being staffed by 50%
Mac/Apple lovers, DO NOT SUPPORT any tools or readers in any official
way. Readers for all KINDS of other platforms, and definitely conversion
tools, but Apple/OSX? Not in 2 years of promises so far

Two special notes: MobiPocket is wholly owned by Amazon ;>


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o Manybooks

o http://manybooks.net - Main site
o http://mnybks.net - Portable Manybooks (send/read wirelessly)


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o Full Books

o http://www.fullbooks.com/


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o Gutenberg

o http://www.gutenberg.org
o http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
o http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html


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o Google Book Search

Google is scanning everything, current copyrighted and past out of
copyright. Some you can view, and some you can download as PDF and
possibly TXT (OOC stuff of course). All of it searchable.

o http://books.google.com/


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o Amazon Kindle Store and books

o http://www.amazon.com
o http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA - Kindle & Store


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o Kindle Bits

o http://brentnewhall.com/Kindle_Fan_Guide.pdf


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o Tor Books

o http://wwww.tor.com

Sign up for free weekly ebook releases and newsletter


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o Solaris - SciFi / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy

UK based eBookStore, some neat stuff

o http://www.solarisbooks.com/default.asp
o http://www.solarisbooks.com/downloads.asp
o A free book:
http://www.solarisbooks.com/books/de.../deadstock.asp


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o Free Children's Library

o http://www.childrenslibrary.org/


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o Steven Brust's Dream Cafe

o http://dreamcafe.com/index.html
o http://dreamcafe.com/firefly.html


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o Richard Herley

The Pagans - A trilogy from Richard Herley set in Stone Age England.
The first book of the trilogy, "The Stone Arrow", won the Winifred
Holtby Memorial Prize in... and others.
Free if you hate, or pay him if you like

o http://www.richardherley.com/
o http://www.richardherley.com/FTCebooks.html
o http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/author/323

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o Corrected Nessmuk - Woodcraft/Camping

o http://www.google.com/search?q=nessmuk+mobipocket
o http://www.zianet.com/jgray/
o http://www.zianet.com/jgray/articles...ad3/index.html

o https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...nessmuk&page=2
or search mobileread.com for nessmuk


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o Steve Jordan Books

SciFi - Including some free stuff

o http://www.stevejordanbooks.com/

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# Programming and Tech in particular
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o Green Tea Press has a series in "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist in"
[python, java, c++] and "How to Program in Python" and a Perl book and
well, haven't gotten too far yet with evaluating this stuff.
Allen B. Downey, professor of Computer Science at Wellesley College (local!)
(might have to send them some money)

o http://www.greenteapress.com/index.html

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o Free Tech Books

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and
programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are
legally and freely available over the Internet.

o http://www.freetechbooks.com/index.php

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o Text Processing in Python by David Mertz -- published by Addison Wesley

o http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/

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o Google search on "python tutorial pdf"
Finds a lot more than the Van Rossum material. Boy howdy.

o http://www.google.com/search?q=python+tutorial+pdf

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o Open Book Project
o http://openbookproject.net/

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o Ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive
o http://www.ibiblio.org/

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o Bruce Eckel - Mindview - Programming

Lots of stuff on Java, C++, Perl, much Python, and more.
o http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php - Main site
o http://www.mindviewinc.com/Books/ - Much with the free books
o http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ/DownloadSites

HTML format. Many in flat files. Use MobiPocket or other tools
(like iSilo) to convert to other devices. Both of those are esp
good at converting a lot of HTML into one file. Handier than you'd
think. Esp useful to put on devices like Plam, Phones, Kindles...

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o Mark Pilgrim - Dive Into

More books on programming, and stuff, look for free downloads
o http://www.diveintopython.org/
o http://diveintomark.org/


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o O'Reilly Safari Bookshelf - free

If you live or work in MA, you have access for free, to everything!

o Live there? Get a BPL card. Goto their website. Enjoy forever.
o Work there? Upwards of 6 months of access free.
Not clear what you're supposed to do after that.



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# The Unresearched Data Collection Section:
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o http://www.teleread.org/index.php

o http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

o http://www.munseys.com

o My Media Mall
o www.mymediamall.net
One more source, depending on if your local public library is a member

o Wowio Free Books and shit

Just give them your CC # to get books with ad:

http://www.wowio.com

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[pilotbob]

You should look at our Wiki. That is the place for stuff like this.

Add any links you have that are missing.

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks

BOb

[ifihad1]

Not to promote things you should not do, ...

[Post edited by moderator]

MR does not permit links to sites containing illegal material.

[exreader]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

You should look at our Wiki. That is the place for stuff like this.

Add any links you have that are missing.

https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks

BOb

Good to know, I didn't even know about the wiki! Thanks


exreader