Books? Find them free online.

I have been collecting links to websites providing free ebooks for a while now and recently discover more from GreenerBusiness. I think it is time to post them here to lure my children to read more often.

Here are a list of links to free eBook websites they have provided:

WOWIO provides Free Ebooks, Comics and Graphic Novels

Internet Archive is a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. At their Text Archive I found a link to the Children's Library. I hope my children will discover something interesting for them to read there.

At Manybooks there are thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your PDA - eReader, PDF, Plucker, Doc, iPod Notes, Mobipocket, or zTXT eBooks for your Palm. You can check out the categories of ebooks they have to offer. So now you can even read ebooks off your Cellphone.

Gutenberg has a library of 17000 free ebooks whose copyright has expired in the USA. Check their book listings, or do an advance search for newsletter and articles.

Software for reading eBook to check out recommended by Greener Business:

Dancing Tortoise software for viewing comics.

Comical Sourceforge provides an easy-to-use, featureful GUI comic book viewer, written in C++ using wxWidgets.

FB Reader

Following are more websites to free ebooks that I have discovered.

eBook88 is an educational site where you can read, submit and find free ebook. From their link at eBook Software, you can find eBook Software for Creating, Compiling, Reading and Designing eBooks and eBook Covers.

At Planet eBook they offer free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels. You can even suggest a classic book they should publish.

There is a wide variety of interesting articles at Neatorama. Some of Alex's articles provide links to free ebooks. How would you like to download The Best Figure Drawing Books Ever (For Free) or A Literary Proposal: 50 Reasons Why You Should Marry Me or Prof. Solomon’s Coney Island eBook, World’s First Roller Coaster for some inspiration? You will never know what you will be getting next.

Words Without Borders promote international communication through translation of the world's best writing. There are lots of short stories, poetry and nonfiction essays published worldwide that have been translated into English.

There are over 150000 eBooks at eBookMall. The ebooks there can be downloaded for a fee but if you join their lifetime eBook Club membership, by paying a one time fee of $19.95, you can login and download over 2,500 eBooks, 24 hours a day. There are a few free ebooks available but if you participate in their survey, they will offer you more free ebooks.

Just in case, the words are little too tough for my children, I have also complied a list of dictionary websites where they can go to for explanations.