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Read for Free

Like to read? Short on cash? Here's a variety of places to get books for free. Audiobooks, podiobooks, ebooks, even some regular old-school paper books.

Contents

  1. The Best Sites for Free Books
  2. Help Others Read
  3. More Sites for Books - Non-Traditional Payments
  4. Reading: The Key to Life!
  5. Books and Updates from Podiobooks.com
  6. Scott Sigler, Podiobook Superstar
  7. Books and Updates from ManyBooks.net
  8. The Kindle
  9. What are YOU reading?

The Best Sites for Free Books

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Podiobooks.com

Free audio books delivered as podcasts. Subscribe for free to any book and start from chapter one.0 points

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LibriVox

LibriVox provides free audiobooks from the public domain. There are several options for listening.0 points

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ManyBooks.net - Free eBooks for your PDA, iPhone, or eBook Reader

Thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your computer, PDA, Smartphone, iPod, or e-reading device - ePUB, Kindle, eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, RTF, Mobipocket, Newton Paperback, and zTXT ebooks ready to go!0 points

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Project Gutenberg

The first producer of free ebooks0 points

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Project Gutenberg Audiobooks

The audiobook category of Project Gutenberg0 points

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Baen Free Library

Science Fiction and Fantasy Electronic books. Published by Baen and made available free by some of their authors.0 points

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Smart Phone Online

Find the best smartphone prices from Amazon.com - You\'ll find some of the most popular smart phone (iPhone, BlackBerry, HTC, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericson) on our list of the best budget smartphones of amazon.com.0 points

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Best Seller EBook

Directebooks.com offer Thousands of eBooks by best selling authors are online best seller Ebook, Top selling Ebooks at reasonable rate. It includes Best Seller Ebook, Best Ebook Store etc.0 points

Help Others Read

Free books are great, but sometimes books cost money. This is especially true in underprivileged areas where most kids don't have ebook readers and MP3 players, and "free downloads" are thus an impossibility. If you're saving money by getting free books, consider donating a few dollars to a charity like Room to Read, which helps provide books, libraries, and education to children in developing countries.

Room to Read partner with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children's literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and estab

More Sites for Books - Non-Traditional Payments

Not quite free, but you're not handing cash over to a bookstore, either.

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PaperBackSwap

Similar to BookMooch - give up a book, get a new one. Includes a "Find a Book I'll Like" feature0 points

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Concord Free Press

A non-profit publishing company which gives away its books in exchange for readers donating money to a charity0 points

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BookMooch

Trade unwanted books with other bibliophiles0 points

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BookCrossing

BookCrossing is mostly designed to encourage leaving books where strangers will find them, but sometimes a book swap can be set up with other members.0 points

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Executive Business Book Summaries - Try Free - 60 Second Books

New business books stripped down to a page. Read books in 60 seconds and be in the know.0 points

Reading: The Key to Life!

Will Smith names his two keys to life: running and reading

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Books and Updates from Podiobooks.com

Podiobooks gives authors a chance to read their books as audiobooks and release them one chapter at a time. It's great for people who don't normally have time to read or listen to audiobooks, as the books are spread out enough to encourage taking advantage of smaller pockets of time.
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Scott Sigler, Podiobook Superstar

Scott Sigler is a horror/sci-fi author who podcasts all his books on Podiobooks.com and ScottSigler.com. To this day, he is the only author to have made me scream and throw my headphones across the room while listening to one of his books.


Several of his books are also now available in print, for those of you who prefer the good ol' dead-tree books.

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Books and Updates from ManyBooks.net

ManyBooks.net offers free ebooks in a variety of forms including PDF, plain text, and Kindle. Most of the books are now in the public domain, leaving users free to do whatever they wish with them, but some are released under Creative Commons or similar licenses.
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The Kindle

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6

Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6" Display, U.S. Wireless)

Amazon Price: $79.90 (as of 05/27/2012)Buy Now

Ebooks can be read on pretty much anything with a screen nowadays - ManyBooks even allows downloads as iPod Notes which can be read on non-Touch iPods. The Kindle is designed for nothing but the reading of ebooks, though, and this gives it some advantages, such as a bigger screen (without the bulkiness of a full computer) and an e-ink screen, which uses less battery than reading a book on most other products and doesn't strain the eyes as much as a backlit screen. Its wireless capabilities also allow you to get new books whenever you want.

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