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GailSpencerLamm offers her illustrated ebook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download.
Galley Cat 
has links to free Project Gutenberg (USA) ebooks grouped together in an interesting way (ie Extraterrestial Abduction Day). The usual wide variety of download and viewing options at Gutenberg available for free without registration.
Gaslight offers a chronological listing and listing by Author of horror and ghost stories from the 19th and 20th century. These are offered for online viewing and were originally posted for weekly reading and discussion groups. Although it appears the weekly groups are no more, the links I checked still were working.
Gavin Williams offers his 10 novel series, The Suprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin, for free reading online. Also inlcuded are 7 other works that continue the story. A romance mystery novel.
GenealogySearch offers historical and genealogy books from around the world.
GeorgeBenthianPhD offers 5 free math and numerical analysis tutorials for free download in PDF.
Geronimo's Adventures features 9 good size books on the adventures of Geronimo the teddy bear for online viewing.
GetFreePdf has a few books in each of its many categories. These are links offsite and despite the site name, many are not available in pdf. Download and viewing options vary.
GetFreeEbooks - Several hundred free ebooks, generally offered up by the authors. Download options vary as these link offsite.
Giggle Poetry a large collection of funny poetry for children available for free reading online. Also, a poetry class for children to learn to write poetry and other activites are available for free.
Giraffian offers a nice collection of books for pre-schoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors and other topics. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.
Girl eBooks has over 200 novels by female writers available for free download in EPUB.
Globusz - A place for new authors to post their work and for readers to check them out for free.
GnomePress is a blog by Aaron Raisey, a collector of the science fiction classics issued by Gnome Press. A nice listing of the works available on the web.
GoldenGems a collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg.
GoodnightStories is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online. A good number of the stories were written by children. Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available.
GoodReads has a listing of 95 free young adult ebooks. All are available for download at their site. The download formats vary, but all the ones I looked at were at least available in PDF, EPUB and MOBI (for Kindle).
Goodreads has a collection of 55 free science fiction audiobooks, all of which are also available for free download in PDF, EPUB or MOBIPocket (Kindle) or free reading online without registration.
GoodSeed offers 5 unique free religous books. 4 deal with the Bible and one with Islaam, although it is a Christian site. Several of the books are offered in a wide variety of languages and come with additional resources, such as workbooks, audio and video. The book download I tried required free registration and I assume they all do.
Google Book Search - Good selection of free ebooks available in a variety of categories. Linked into GooglePlay, belwo, but offers sme extra options if you have Google email account.
GooglePlay google does not make it easy to find the free books in their collection. This is a link to the top free books. More free ebooks may be found by doing a search and choosing Free Only in the results. Choosing a category and the Free Only option also shows more results. All are available for free reading online.
Gospel eBooks has listings of limited time offers on Christian ebooks at Amazon. A number of the titles did not appear to be religious oriented, but all were free and I since the site is Gospel eBooks,I guess the books are Christian themed. Thanks to Dave Faulkner for this suggestion.
Grace Eliazabeth Baker offers her serial novel, The House of Sever, for free reading online. As of now, this is really more like 3 novels.
Grammaropolis has a book, video, songs and games to help children learn proper grammar.
Green Tea Press has a dozen of their books for free download in PDF or free reading online. These appear to be quality texts.
GregoryDaroneoffers his novel, The Butler Did It, for free reading online.
GrimmFairyTales has a small collection of The Grimm's fairy tales for free reading online in a flash player. Also available are some associated activities.
GrtBooks - A large collection of great books and classics.
Guerrilla Wordfare offers 2 free romance novels. One may be downloaded as a zip file, that contains 5 different formats and the other you must Tweet or post on Facebook to get for free.
Guides Ebooks will create a free wiki style guide book for countries around the globe. Free download in PDF, EPUB. OpenDocument and OpenZIM without registration. Thanks to Pretio for this site.
HANDebooks has 15 public domain classics available for download in Plucker or eReader.
Harlequin offers 16 full length romance novels for free download in pdf. These are entries from their collection.
HarlequinExtras offers 269 free romance novels for reading online. These are printable and also may be sorted into various categories.
Harvey Mudd College has online written tutorials in math related subjects available for free reading online without registration.
HBPMS this is a blog that contains textbooks and other informational material to "become a pure mathematician (or statistician)". Some of the items listed are not free, but there looked to be a free materials in every section of the guide.
Heidoc offers search by genre of the limited time free offerings at Amazon. Daily updates by email are available and you have the option to select updates only for cerrtain genre(s).
HerbertWilf site offers 5 of his math books for free download in PDF as well as a couple sets of his lectures. His Wikipedia page.
HeritageAuctionGalleries offers two works of James L. Halperin, The First Immortal and The Truth Machine, for free download in MS Word.
Hike Bike Travel has 21 free guides for hiking and biking travel. All are available for free download in PDF (zipped).
Historical Text Archive has 74 free eboolks of history covering various continents. These are all available for free reading online. Click on the "TOC" (Table of Contents) link on the book page to read .
Hopcott.Net has a small but unique collection of novels, novellas and short stories for online viewing. Genres include romance, mystery, ghost science fiction and horror.
HotFreeEBooks an excellent site for reading books online. They boast over 20,000 ebooks and you can adjust font size and contrast for your reading pleasure. Thanks to Jan Lonner for this excellent suggestion.
HowTo offers around 150 free "how to" ebooks on a wide variety of topics. Suggested by an anonymous poster.
H.P.Lovecraft Archive offers all of the works of H.P.Lovecraft for online viewing. Also offers information about him and links to other Lovecraft sites.
H.P. Lovecraft.com has an excellent archive of the works of the horror master available for free reading online.
Humanistic Texts a large collection of "humanistic" texts from many cultures available for free reading online without registration.\
Hundred Zeros UK monitors Amazon (UK) for free ebooks in various genre. A RSS feed for each of the genre is available.
Hundred Zeros USA monitors the "Best Sellers" list at Amazon (which has the top free listings) and has all the listings on one page. They offer RSS and eMail updates.
Hunt4Freebies posts weekly updates of temporarily free offerings from Barnes & Noble. Registration, with credit card information, is required at Barnes & Noble. There is about 25 to 45 free ebooks listed per week.
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April 18, 2013, 76 new sites added, 1 link fixed and 6 dead sites removed.
All links here checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
Steve
really good results for free ebook reading
March 17, 2013, 51 new sites added, 9 dead links removed and all links here checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
Steve
February 9, 2013, 29 new sites added, 6 dead sites removed, 1 site with bad WOT rating removed for net of 22 sites.
All links are checked with LinkChecker as I can no longer visit each site to check. If you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here or contact me through the site. (Press mr6n8 above)
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, then please post here or contact me through the site.
If you have your own site to be added, it is best to contact me through the site.
Thanks
Steve
There is a free video book at CatEyeBooks.com that is fun for kids. It has TONS of pictures, and is read aloud.
thanks.
I have bookmarked and will add to the Free Children's Audio Books page on its next update.
Steve
January 8, 2013, 45 new sites added and 9 sites removed.
I use linkchecker to verify the existing links. Which means I do not revisit those sites. If you find a site that is not as it should be, please post a comment.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post in comments or contact me (click on mr6n8 above) through the site.
Thanks to those who have posted thanks. I appreciate it.
Steve
Thank you, mr6n8 for this great list of sources! This took time you were willing to share with us, and I'm greatful. I.O.U.1
Jero
It looks like the first free book place listed above - 1placeforromance - is gone. When I clicked on your link, the next screen read "this store is closed.
Thought you might like to know this.
Thanks.
Thanks for the info. I will remove from here and the Free Romance Books Page.
Steve
I recently was presented a Nook Tablet from my adult children as a birthday gift.
My question is this... What application(s) might be required on this Nook in order to read materials posted on your lists? I apoligize for the novice question, however, I have not even opened the device to perform the initial battery charge.
I appreciate the dedicated labor of love that you devoted to the collection. An amazing and very useful guide that will get me returning to reading to which I have let go for a while.
Thank you very much.
The Nook reads ePub (and I believe PDF).
I have put up a separate page for sites that offer all their books in ePub.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/free-epub-books-online.htm
I suppose I should rename the page to include Nook in the title.
Steve
awesome list & work !
many thanks !
Chris
*bows down to your greatness* Thank you so much! Your effort to put this together is greatly appreciated (since a certain site have recently gone down). Thanks again!
u have not added site name holybooks.com . your site is just wonderfull .any type help u want iam ready for it
With all the sites listed, easy to miss, but it is already in this listing
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm?...
I have missed it for the Religion page of free books and will add it there on next update.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/free-books-religion
Thanks
Wow. NEVER have I seen any list as comprehensive as this one. I can only imagine the hours upon hours (weeks upon weeks, months upon months?) of work it must have taken to do this. You must have an endless supply of patience. I, for one, as a voracious reader, thank you from the bottom of my heart for this resource. OF COURSE it is at the top of my bookmarks, filed under 'IMPORTANT'! Again, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU...!
Thank you for that.
I never imagined that this would have grown to what it has, size and responsibility wise. It started with 50 sites and I thought that was all there was.
Lots of hours looking and entering, but doing it little by little makes it seem not so bad.
Just added another 35 sites in this last week.
Thanks again.
Steve
July 22, 2012, new sites added and links checked through LinkChecker.
73 new sites added, 2 sites links fixed and 8 sites removed (2 for WOT ratings) for a net gain of 65 sites.
If you find any links not working or sites not what they are supposed to be, please post here in the comments.
If you know of any sites that can be added to this listing please post here.
Thanks
Steve
I'm very glad for this excellente web site.It afford me possibility to have very well ebook.I advice everybody to subscribe in it.At soon
Fantastic. I really like the break out into categories. I checked out the memoirs section at http://2020ok.com/2366.htm. Some look interesting. I will report back.
I noticed I had not put a note on 2020ok on that page. I put it here and some other pages. A number of the links, particularly those to Archive.org are not good. I think Archive changed their link setup and 2020ok did not update.
Anyhow, if you have a chance to let me know how it goes nowadays, I would appreciate it.
Steve
I was looking under memoirs at 2020ok.com. The link http://2020ok.com/books/55/a-doctor-of-the-old-school-volume-05-29655.htm takes you to a "book rags" pay site - http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/9319/. I was unable to locate a way to download the book for free. They mention it being part of the Gutenberg Project. I looked up the Gutenberg Project link and found the book there. I sent 2020ok.com a notification so we'll see. So it's back to the old unglamorous standby's (Gutenberg, Librivox.com) where it might take a bit of sifting but the price is right.
That novel, a Doctor of the Old School, is available either by volume or the complete work for free online reading at Fullbooks. Look under Doctor on this page:
http://www.fullbooks.com/idx13.html
I was checking through a number of links after your last post and was pleasantly surprised to see that they had fixed their links to archive.org and then I also ran into a BookRags page, which looked like it was going to make the book available for free reading online, but then made it available pay only.
BookRags used to offer some free books, though they were hard to find. I have a feeling they eliminated the freebies on their site.
Most of the links there are still good, but since they link off site, there are risks of dead links. I wish their links told you where they were going so one could avoid the bad ones.
Gutenberg, of course is one of the big ones, but as you say is a bit clunky to get around. Open Library and Archive are also the same - huge collections, but hard to find unless you are searching for a specific title.
I have been meaning to put together a top 10 or 20 for this list to make it easier to find some quality sites. I think I need to get on that next. There are some sites with good sized collections that make it easier to get around.
Thanks for the input on 2020ok. I am going to add some info in on it, when I get a chance.
Steve
Not usually a pedant, but since this is about literary concerns, and because it is an easy mistake to make, the phrase is 'whet your interest' (originally the idiom is 'whet one's appetite'). As opposed to 'wet' which would dampen rather than stimulate interest.
But that aside, this is a fabulous list of resources and my interest is suitably whetted. Thank you very much.
HH.
I could not figure out where I would have said that in the article as that is not an idiom I use and I would know "whet" from "wet" and I would use "appetite" (maybe an age thing).
Then I realized it must be in the RSS feed (and it is).
I suppose "wet" would be appropriate for the Sports Illustrated annual Swim Suit issue :)
Steve
Yesh, I didn't put it together that the RSS feed could be penned by a different bloke. Well, no harm, now fowl, as they say. :) (Foul).
yes fowl indeed. (appetite reference)
To be fair, I am sure whoever puts the RSS out knows the difference, but you can get pretty spaced out after writing for a while here and that is one that spell check does not catch.
Steve
As of May 28, 2012, all links have been checked and are working.
50 sites were added and 25 sites were removed in this update.
Thanks to those who posted new sites to be added.
As always, if you know of any site that legally offer free books, please post here.
If you find any errors in this listing, or have a more accurate description of a site listed here, please post here.
Steve