783 Places for Free eBooks Online

2020k Large collection, divided into categories and sub-categories for download in a variety of formats.  Note:  Most of the links here are working, but there are a number that lead to BookRags, which are not free anymore.  Unfortunately, there is no way of telling where the link goes until you click the link.  Since they did fix the issue with archive.org links, hopefully they will fix this. Thanks to Marie99 for pointing this out.

221B Baker Street has the 48 (of 60) works in the public domain in the USA of the Sherlock Holmes Canon available for free reading online.  Some are also available for download in PDF.

365Tomorrows  a free science fiction short story per day for online viewing.  They have been online since August, 2005, so there is a large collection of works here.

AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories  is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading.  The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.

ABC Fast Phonics a completely free site for children to learn to read through phonics.

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications a free textbook intended for college juniors and seniors available for free download in PDF without registration.

A Buddhist Library has over 400 books and 6,000 articles primarily covering Buddhism, but with a good number of works on world religions.  All that I looked at were for free online reading.

AdamDecker offers his novel, The Janitor, for free reading online.  He also offers some free short stories and poems.

AddAll Ebooks   has listings for free offerings from Amazon, Sony, Barnes & Noble and Harlequin, which are updated regularly as some of the offerings are time limited.

AdobeDigitalEditions There is a free library for use with the Adobe Digital Editions software.  This page lists some of the books available.  Some are only the first chapter of the book, but others are the full novel for free.  If you find some that interest you, then you will need to install their software (free).

Aesop's Fables  offers 655+ of the Aesop fables for free online reading as well as 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the fable of Jean Fontaine (17 and being added to).  There are also a couple of L. Frank Baum stories and Dickens' , A Christmas Carol.  Also available are 37 audio versions.

Affirm Your Life offers over 130 free ebooks regarding self improvment for free download in PDF without registration.

A First Course in Linear Algebra an introductory college level textbook available for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration.

Alex Catalogue of Electonic Texts huge collection of classic works available for free reading online and free download in a wide variety of ebook formats without registration.  There is also an Alex 2, which appears to have the same content, but a bit less.

Al-Islam has a large collection of Islamic works in its library available for free online viewing.  There is also software and audio available.  Clicking on the appropriate icons in the library will show the available works in each.  Received the following comment from Zeeshan Ali regarding this site "Please make a correction here. This link and collection here represent a sect of Islam i.e. Shia, who are not concurrent in many manners to many of Muslims and Islam."

AllBooksFree A small, but unique, listing of free fiction ebooks, available for download, mostly in pdf.

AllKindsOfThingsKill is a collection of 9 short horror stories by Robert Best available for online viewing.

AllPDFBooks  has a good sized collection of books available in biology, chemistry,  physics, computer, magic and Hindi kahaniyan, for download in pdf.  Suggested by an anonymous user.

AllRomanceBooks  lists 169 free romance ebooks for download.  Registration is required.  I noticed that there appeared to be the 1RomanceEBooks and eHarlequin listings shown there, as well as quite a few others.  Again, these are not public domain, but the free offerings of current publishers.

AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro  has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

AmazingAdventureSeries  offers the children story "June the Prune" for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

Amazon  has a large listing of free kindle books.  These are listed as the Top 100 free overall and in each category.  I did not go through each category, but they look to add up to an impressive number.  Registration required and may only be available to USA users.

AmericanFolklore  offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.

American Institute of Mathematics offers open source mathematics textbooks suitable for college level courses.  The links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.  No registration needed.

American Literature  has a large collection of free classic ebooks available for free reading online without registration.  they also have a nice little collection of free stories for children available for free reading online.  These have some nice illustrations.

American Mathematical Society has a pretty complete listing of books involving mathematics.

AnAngryAuthorScreaming has 12 short horror stories and some poetry available for free download in DOC.  Not intended for children.

AndersenFairyTales offers several of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for free online reading in a flash player.  Also available are associated activities.

Angela Kay offers her novel, End of the Age:  Final Deception, for free download in PDF.  A Christian novel about faith, courage and love involving fallen angels who return to Earth disguised as aliens.

AnthonyBarnhart offers about 10 of his novels for free at Lulu.  These appear to all be available for free download in PDF.  Free registration at Lulu is required.

Antilope a poster at the cooking.com fora, has put together a great list of links to cookbooks from the late 1800s and early 1900s.  The links go to a very nice read inn your browser format and you can click there to go to Open Library (of Archive.org) to download in a wide variety of formats.

Antique Books has a small collection of free ebooks, including 20 of the classic Golden Books for free online viewing without registration.

Archive.org (Children's Library)  large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download

ArmenianStoryTeller  has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.

Arrival Guides very large collection of guides for cities around the globe available for free download in PDF without registration.

Arthur's Bookshelf an excellent collection of free novels available for free download in varying formats, mostly PDF and EPUB.  Extensive collections in various categories.

Arthur's Classic Novels - Over 4000 novels covering a great variety of topics, nicely separated into categories and "best" lists.  Some very interesting entries here.  Available for online viewing.

ArtofTravel offers the ebook, How to See the World, backpacking on $25 a day or less for free reading online.

ArXivOrg   Open access to 771,976 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics

Ask Sam - A small collection of classics, including Shakespeare, and legal, resource and government texts.

AssociatedContent  has several cookbooks available for download in pdf.  Most are short and specific (muffin recipes etc.), but the Chocolate recipe book is over 600 pages and the Blue Ribbon recipes are over 400 pages.

AstrologyWeekly 10 books for online reading and about 30 for download.  All on astrology. Update:  A number of the links here are now dead, but there are still several books available.

Athenaeum Library of Philosophy a large collection of works in a wide variety of sub-categories.  All the ones that I checked were available for free reading online without registration.

A to Z wire monitors the USA and UK Amazon sites daily for limited time free ebooks. They only list ebooks that have a rating of 4 stars or above after at least 25 reviews each.  They list about 13 free ebooks daily.  Thanks to Corey F for this link.

Authonomy a website set up by Harper Collins publishing for unpublished authors to display their works.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

Authorama offers a few hundred books, searchable by author, for online viewing.

Author Stand has thousands of free works in a variety of genres.  These are available for free download in PDF after free registration.  These are unique works by unpublished authors.

BABBooks  is a children's site that has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.

Baby School   has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children.

Baen Free Library - A small library of downloadable science fiction novels in a variety of formats.

BaenCD - A small collection of science fiction books from Baen's promotional CDs.  They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.

BaldwinLibraryofChildren'sLiterature has almost 6,000 classic , but unique, children's books for free viewing online.  the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations.  A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.  Not related to the above as far as I can tell.

Baldwin Online Children's Projects 520 classic  children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.

BannerBooks offers 5 unique books for reading online.

BarbaraMurray offers the free ebook, P.E.A.C.E. on Earth, " cross-platform, multi-media serialized ebook set 3 million years into the future."

Bargain Briana  offers the free cookbook, Betty Crocker, Best of 2011, for free download in PDF without registration.

Bargain eBook Hunter   has very detailed reviews of the daily free offerings from Amazon.  They do not list as many offerings as others that list Amazon free offers, but they do give more detailed reviews.  They also offer search by genre for free listings.  They do offer RSS and eMail updates, but not just for the free offerings (includes bargains).

Barnes&Noble offers free ebooks for the nook.  There are some sample books mixed in with the free full entries, but still plenty of reading material for nook users here.  Thanks to Sara Lutz for this.

Bartleby - Harvard classics and encyclopedias.  HTML only.

BBCSchools   has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio.

BeatToAPulp describes itself as "an outlet for writers of hardboiled fiction".  The site offers a large collection of short stories for free reading online.

Bedtime-Story has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing.  Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.

Beenleigh State School  of Queensland, Australia has a large collection of children stories to read online with audio built in.

Ben and Me Marcy, the "Me" of the site name has put together a very impressive listing of ebooks for children that are always free at Amazon.

Berkely SunSite Classics - A small collection of classics.  HTML only.

Best Children;s Books offers 2 original children books and links to a number of free children books.

BesteBooksWorld has links to a fairly large collection of free ebooks in a wide variety of categories.  These are offsite links, so the download/viewing options vary.

BestScienceFictionStories offers links to a large collection of new and classic short stories for reading, listening and download. 

BetweentheLions  has a good number of video books with words for younger readers to follow along.  Also some games and other activities for young readers.

BeyondTheFarHorizon Gina Marie Wylie hosts the works of a number of authors in this forum.  Free registration, with valid email address, is required.  From what I could tell all are available for free reading online and all appear to be unique works of unnpublished authors.  There is a mix of novels, novellas and short stories.  A lot of material and it is updated regularly.  The sort by author link seems to get the most results.  There is also a recent stories link.  Thanks to Guathier for this link.

BiblioFaction   has 34 free western short stories available for free reading online without registration.

Bibliomania - Over 2,000 classic novels, study guides, biographies and more.  HTML only.

Bibliotastic offers a good amount of free books in quite a few categories for free online reading.

BillyBear4Kids offers several personalized story books and coloring books for download as PC programs.  There is also a book available for free online reading in a flash player.  There are also downloadable programs to encourage children to write their own books.

Black Mask has a good size collection of free ebooks, offered in blog like form.  All the ones I saw were available for free reading online, free dowload in Kindle, ePub and PDF, without registration.  This is not associated with Black Mask magazine below.

BlackMaskFiction  offers 20 or so free detective stories that were originally published in magazines during 1925 to 1939 for download in pdf.

Blackwood Stories very nice collection of Algernon Blackwood horror stories available for free download in PDF without registration.

Blastr lists 33 scary stories that are free online.  Since these are links offsite, download and viewing options vary.  Posted on October, 2011, but all the links I checked were working.

Blog Books has some links to free online textbooks.  A couple were only samples, but the rest were full textbooks for free.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

BookBoon has a very nice collection of textbooks, travel guides and business ebooks for free download in PDF.

Book-bot  14,571 books available for online viewing in their easy to view reader.  Very nice find by fellow editor Rhiannon.

Bookchums a large collection of free ebooks and a mix of classic and newer releases.  All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF with free registration.  There is a 5 book per month limit for free users.

BookGlutton is a collection of 1200+ books for online reading with the added  feature of  groups available for discussion of the readings.  Nice combination of reading and socializing.  Suggested by an anonymous poster. Free registration and starting of a group now required.

BookGoldMine has several hundred ebooks, lecture   notes and videos regarding biology, business, computer science, math and physics.  Most available for viewing online, but some for download in PDF.  Thanks to Gio for this.

Bookie Jar has over 1100 free ebooks in its Classics..  All are available for free reading online without registration. Free registration is required for free download in EPUB or MOBI (Kindle).  There are also 128 free ebooks in the Free Indie collection, which is recent works by independent authors.

BookPop  is another children's site that has a number of illustrated books free for online reading.  There are also some coloring pages for download.  There are supposed to be music and story downloads, but I kept getting an error when  trying to reach those.

BookRags - Small collection of free with many paid.  Hard to find the free ones.  Available in Word or PDF.

BookRix   is a mix of classic and new ebooks.  There are over 16,500 free ebooks available in several general categories.  The reading online is in a popup window that reads as an ordinary book.  There are some classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are also many unique entries here.  The adult oriented books require registration to read or download.  Downloads in  epub, Sony, Stanza (iPhone) or their BookRix formats.

BookRix Mobile has over 25,000 free ebooks on their mobile ebook site.  All are available for free download in EPUB, without registration.  As with the main site, these are works by independent authors.

Booksie has a huge collection of free works in a wide variety of categories.  These range from short stories to novels and are unique works of unpublished authors.  All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF (press "Generate eBook" button).

BooksInMyPhone has a good size collection of public domain books available for download in formats compatilbe with any phone that supports Java.

Books On The Knob   has daily postings of free Kindle, Sony, Nook and other reader ebooks.  RSS, Twitter and email updates available.  These are time limited offers.

BooksShouldBeFree While primarily a good sized collection of audio books, each of the books is available for online reading or for download in text.

Bookstacks is a small collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing, with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader versions.  Nicely set up.

BookYards - 16,000+ books, videos, educational material.

Bored.com has over 15,000 books available for online viewing.  Nicely divided into a good variety of categories.

Bregdan Chronicles  Ginny Dye, offers the first book in The Bregdan Chronicles series for free download in PDF or for free reading online.  Submission of a valid email is necessary.

BritishCouncil  has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories for children.  Games and other activities also available.  Audio may be disabled for reading only.

BritishLibrary has a virtual books section with a small, but interesting, collection for online viewing.

BrowzerBooks  has an interesting collection of novels in a wide variety of genres (check bottom of page for links to genres) either available for online reading or download in pdf.

Bubu Tales  has 2 free books, in a wide variety of languages, available for free download in PDF

BucaroTecHelp  has an interesting collection of free business books available for download in pdf.  These deal with internet business for the most part.  You do have to view their news feed to be able to download, but registration is not necessary.

BuddhaNet   offers several hundred ebooks on various aspects of Buddhism for download in pdf.  Also a children's section with coloring books and texts.  There are audio books and videos also available.

BuddhistELibrary has around 225 free books on Buddhism in 7 categories.  Downloads are in PDF.  Also offers audio and video

BusinessBookMall  has a large collection of books dealing with all facets of business for free download in pdf.  Also a large collection of non-business textbooks for free download in PDF.

Business-Software-Books has a smaller collection of business books that mostly relate to use of software for business.  These are zipped files and the ones I checked were PDF.

B Western Cowboy Comics links to a huge collection of comic books of Western classics and of western movie heroes.  This is a constantly growing collection and has separate pages of audio and video Western fiction.

ByGosh  offers a small collection of very nicely illustrated classics for younger children and older children.  Also some short stories.  Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

By Math "an online mathematics hgh school" providing complete learning materials for an elementary mathematics education.  All available for free reading online without registration.

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