783 Places for Free eBooks Online

SamizdatPress  has a small collection of science and math works and links to other works.  Their focus is on "material of a pedagogical nature".

Sarah Reinke  has made several of her romance novels, and some non-romance novels, available for download in pdf.  These are for mature audiences and you must be over 18 years of age to download.

Savannah Chase  has made a good number of her short stories, flash fiction, novellas and poetry available for free.  Most are for free reading online and a few for free download in PDF.

Saylor.org  has a wide variety of courses and textbooks available for free.  All the ones I checked were offered for free download in PDF, but download and viewing options may vary as these are links offsite.

Scholastic Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you).  Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.

Scholastic Mini-books has a good selection of stories available to read or print, many of which are free. Suggested by Cathy of  PuzzlEd.

ScienceBooksOnline  has a large listing of links to math, engineering and science books (including computer science and other disciplines).  Since these links are off site, download options vary, but most seemed to be in pdf.

ScienceFictionandFantasy has a small listing of public domain works available for download in text or html.  Most can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entries.

Scifimatter  has a nice listing of free sci fi books available on the internet.  Some are already listed here, but there are quite a few unique entries.

ScottSigleroffers a nice collection of short stories and serialized novels for download in PDF.  These are adult works.  Also some audio works available for free listening at Podiobooks or download in iTunes.  Thanks to MrWednesday7 (James) for this.

SebastianSwan  a collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.

SejarahMelayuLibrary is perhaps the largest public on-line collection of books and other documents on the history of the Malay archipelago and its surrounding region. It consists of over 700 books and academic papers in electronic PDF format.

ServantOfMessiah offers 400 Christian themed books for free download in PDF.  Scroll over "Resources eBooks" to see the categories available.  Each category page has the links for the books.

Sesame Street  has 5 free Sesame Street picture ebooks for free reading online.  Looks like the free books are changed weekly and email updates are available.

SF Book Reviews has 24 free ebooks available for free download in MOBI without registration.  These are all science fiction themed.   Some are classics and some are newer works, with a few unique entries not found elsewhere.

SF Signal monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings in its Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror genres.  Also monitors other sites for free ebook offerings in those genres.  All appeared to have Kindle compatible downloads.

SFWA The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America offers some short stories and novellas of its members for free reading online or download in PDF.

ShadowUnit  is an ongoing "story about a group of unrealistically sexy FBI agents struggling to protect humanity from the worst monsters imaginable".  Episodes are viewable online (with optional music) and some parts are available for download.  Features a wiki and an opportunity to talk to the story's characters.

ShadyMike offers 4 free books on travel for download in pdf.

Shakespeare's Plays The complete texts of Shakespeare plays with explanatory notes, from your trusted Shakespeare source.  Suggested by Sea Mac. 

Shay's Imagination  offers the unique stories and poems of Shay for online reading or download in pdf.

Shelley Munro offers 6 of her novellas for free download in PDF.

Sherlock Holmes.es has the complete works of the Sherlock Holmes Canon availabe for free download in PDF, EPUB, HTML or ASCII.

Sherlockian.Net has links to the 60 works of the Sherlock Holmes Canon.  There are several download and viewing options for each work.

Shriram Krishnamurthi of Brown University offers his ebook, Programing Languages:  Application and Interpretation, for free download in PDF or free reading online, without registration.

Short Fiction  is a site for free short stories.  There are over 6,000 short stories in the various Romance and Erotic categories (over 18).  All are available for free reading online without registration.

Short Stories Free has a nice collection of free short stories in various genres available for free reading online.

SifyBawarchi has 43 free cookbooks for primarily Indian but also Pakistani, Chinese and Malaysian cuisine.  These are available for free download in PDF.   The site also features a large collection of recipes with an intelligent search system.

SillyBooks  has a number of free books available for online reading.  There are also puzzles, games and contests.

Siyavula free textbooks in math and science for grades 10 to 12 available for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration. .  Also natural science and technology texts for Grades 4 - 6 all in free PDF without registration.

Small Beer Press   offers 5 free novels, under creative commons license, for free download in a variety of formats.

Smashwords has a very large collection of free ebooks from independent authors and publishers.  These are available for download in a wide variety of formats, including KINDLE, EPUB and PDF among others, as well as for online viewing.

SolarDrift  An ongoing science fiction novel by Martin A. Hale.  Episodes are available for online vieiwng.  He also offers a few of his short stories for online viewing.

SparkPeople offers Chef Meg's cookbook for free download in PDF without registration.

Speakaboos has what appears to be a large collection of free stories for reading and listening online.  All are in a flash player.  The site is very slow to load pages.  Each of the images on the page linked seems to lead to at least 4 stories each and the images on the bottom half circle also lead to addtional free stories (the ones I check all were accompanied by songs.  Geared to younger children.

Squidoo  has links to 16 free western ebooks at Amazon (USA) authored by Zane Grey, Max Brand and William MacLeod Raine.

Starfall nice little collection of works to help children learn to read

StarRigger  offers some of the works of Jeffrey A. Carver for download in a large variety of formats.  All the novels of his Chaos Chronicles series as well as a few others are available for download as well as his recent novel Sunborn, which is available for free download for a limited time.

Starry FreeOnlineNovels small collection, but some interesting entries, available for online viewing.

StephaneDucasse offers 30 free computer related books for free download in PDF.  One of the links I checked was not working, but the others I checked were working.  Apparently, these are works that are out of print and permission was obtained to keep them alive for free downloads.  See Books and Columns for additional free ebooks.

Stiljack offers a free complete crime novel of Martin Cooper along with 5 short stories and also has a few other authors short stories.  Aspiring writers are encouraged to have their books posted there.

Stitz-Yeager offers a free open source Pre-Calculus textbook, covering college level Algebra and Trigonomotry.  Available for free download in PDF without registraton.

StoneSoup offers a free cookbook of "minimalist" recipes, with 5 ingredients and less than 10 minutes to prepare, for free download in PDF without registration.

StoriesForChildren  has 8 Christmas stories by Carolyn Rogers for online viewing and apparently some woodland creature stories soon to come.

StoriestoGrowBy  has a large collection of folk and fairy tales for children from around the world for online viewing.

Storybird  unites artists and writers to create some excellent illustrated stories.  On the left hand side of the page are the age divisions for the story's readers, ranging from preschool to adult. They claim there is over 5 million stories creeated there. Every story I saw was available for free reading and viewing online.

StoryPlace has a few stories for preschooler and elementary school age children presented in flash animation.  This site seems to go off line quite a bit (and back on) as I have added and deleted it several times.

StoryTimeForMe a nice site with unique entries aimed for toddlers through 2d grade.  Interesting combination of old fashioned animated book and flash video.

Stuart Stories has 9 free books for begining readers and about 30 free books for older children.  All are available for free reading online and most are also available for free download in PDF.

Sultan.org  has an extensive listing of links to sites containin Islamic texts as well as a large number of pdf texts at the site.

SunDogStories offers the adult oriented crime story, Lucky's Dream, for free online viewing.

SunnaOnline  offers 16 free books on Islam.  All are available for online viewing and some for download in pdf.

SurLaLuneFairyTales  offers a very nice and large collection of fairy tales from around the world for online reading.

Synechism offers 4 free math related textbooks for free download in PDF without registration.

Take Off Guides offers free guides to Barcelona and Rome for free download in PDF.

Talebooks has a large collection of free works in several genres available for free download in PDF without registration.

Tech Blorge has links to its "Top 40 best free ebooks".  All appear to be links to Project Gutenberg (USA) and so are available in a wide variety of ebook formats for free download and also for free reading online.  No registration needed.

TechBooksforFree offers a wide range of free programming and computer books divided into nine main categories.

TechToolBlog Links to 345 online programing books

Textbook Revolution   is a student run website that has links to a wide variety of free textbooks and course materials online.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

Thalssson provides listings and links for the free ebook offerings at Project Gutenberg (USA).  This may be an easier way of navigating around Gutenberg.  The free ebooks are available in the usual wide variety of formats that Gutenberg offers.

The Assayer good collection in a wide range of subjects, even though a number of the links are dead.  All the working links that I checked were for free online reading.

The Book Depository has over 18,000 free ebooks in a large selection of categories available for free download in PDF without registration.  You will see prices listed for each of the books, but that is for hard copy.  Look for the green Get Free eBook to click on and then the green Download Free eBook PDF on the book listing page.

The Cheap  monitors Amazon for limited time free ebooks.  They post the release according to genre and post 5 to 20 free ebooks in each of several genres daily.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes  has the complete Holmes' canon available for free download in EPUB.

The Complete works of Mark Twain   The Complete works of Mark Twain, Biography, Quotes over at mtwain.com. This site contains *almost all* of Mark Twain's works. Suggested by Sea Mac.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare  is the Web's first edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. This site has offered Shakespeare's plays and poetry to the Internet community since 1993. Suggested by Sea Mac.

The Edith Wharton Society has a collection of the famed author's works available for free reading onlinw without registration.  Also, some study guides and other resources for the classroom.

TheFreeLibrary  has a large collection of free classic books sorted by author and searchable by author, title or keyword.  There is also a small biography of every author along with the listing of that author's works on the site.  The site claims to have over 5 million works.  Online viewing only.

The Global Text Project has over hundreds free ebooks in many categories available for free download in PDF without registration.

TheHistoricalArchive has the two volume work, Stories of the Civil War, available for download or viewing in PDF.  This is mostly a pay site and this is the only free entry for now.  The free offering does change from time to time and there is no registration required to obtain this free offer.

The Jack London Online Collection has a comprehensive collection of the famed writer's works available for free reading online without registration.  Also available are study aids and other materials regarding Mr. London.

The Knowledge Den has a large collection of free ebooks in PDF format.  There are two sections that are further divided, Ancient History, Archaeology & Mythology and Esoteric, Mystical & the Arts.  Interesting collection with some unique items.  No registration needed.

The Literature for Children Collection a resource from the University of Florida (USA) featuring chidren books published from before 1850 to beyond 1950.  These are JPG scans visible in their viewer.  Warning that some of these books have racist language.

TheLiteraryGothic has a large listing of authors of Gothic works (pre 1950) and links to online ebooks for many of them.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.  I found many of their offsite links to be dead, but they host a large number of eTexts for online reading (marked by a in their listings).

TheLiteraturePage xhas a good size and interesting collection of free books.  These are classic works and are available for free reading online.

TheManorSchool offers a collection of Greek myths and legends for online viewing.  Featured within the stories is the artwork of children of the school.

The Math Page offers a nice collection of free textbooks, starting from basic Arithmetic through Calculus.  All available for free rading online without registration.

The Maywright Library  has a huge collection of links to free works of the "classic and golden age mystery novels and short stories.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.

TheMoonlitRoad  has 11 stories for children for online reading.  A mix of ghost stories, folktales, myths and legends from the American South.

The NTS Library a very large collection of Christian writings available for free download in PDF without registration.

The Online Medieval and Classical Library  a smaller collection of "some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization" available for free reading online.

The Orange Grove provides free textbooks as part of the State of Florida's (USA) portal of free educational resources.  All the ones that I looked at were avaialbe for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration.  I did not see a way to sort out the Math textbooks, but all of the initial results are Mathematics related.  This link is to the textbook section of the site, there are also other sections of the site with useful information.

Theosophical University Press offers free written resources of materials regarding Theosophy, including free magazines, ebooks and manuals.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

ThePlough offers 53 Christian books for free download.  All are available in PDF, many are also available in KINDLE or PRC.  Interesting collection with some dealing with theology and others with practical application in everyday life.

ThePomplemousse  has three original stories about the adventures of Pomplemousse, intended for children and adults.

The Public Domain Review  is a collection of classic works.  The texts will open in their reader, but there is a link to Open Library for each book, where an EPUB download is available without registration.

ThePuritanLibrary offers a large collection of Puritan books and articless.  Many are available for free download in KINDLE and EPUB and others are available as PDF.

TheSeaLiesAfterDeath by Aubra Penner, is being released in parts, on 6 as of now, and the full 10 sections will eventually be available for free reading online.

The Vessel Project  monitors Amazon for free Christian ebooks.   The page auto updates when new Christian ebooks are offered for free at Amazon.  These are limited time offers at Amazon.

The Western Online is a webzine "dedicated to the old west" and they offer free Western fiction short stories for reading online.  These are new and original works.

The Works and Life of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens online, a website dedicated to one of the most prolific and esteemed English writers, generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.  Suggested by Sea Mac.  

Thin Ghost has the full texts of all of M.R. James's ghost stories available for free reading online.

Thousand Eggs provides  online links to historic cookbooks from the 1400s to the 1900s.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

ToddlerSchool  has a small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also has educational games for younger children.  Suggested by Sefi.

Tom Coote  offers his travel ebooks for free download.  All are listed at Smashwords, so they come in a wide variety of formats with free download without registration.

Tonight'sBedtimeStory  offers 79 classic fairy tales for download or online viewing in PDF.

TopMystery A good amount of each of the few mystery authors listed are available for online viewing or download

Tor.com  has a good number of Science Fiction & Fantasy stories available for download in pdf, mobi pocket, html or ePub.  Also available for listening or download as MP3.

Totally Free Math  provides a free textbook on Elementary Algebra for free viewing online or free download in PDF.  Click on Free Math up top to see the ebook options.

Toy Box Productions offers over 20 original works for free reading online in their flash viewer.  This is split between historical works and Bible stories.

T Puboffers 3 free textbooks covering basic math, pre-calculus and time conversion for free reading online without registration.

Tracy Falbe  offers two free science fiction novels for free download in PDF, PRC or EPUB.

TravelandTransitions  offers several free ebooks for download in pdf.  These are compilations of the writer's blog entries.

Travel Books Online has about 200 free classic travel books and guides for free reading online.

TrinityMoon  a small collection of novels and short stories for online reading.

TripBase  offers 7 travel books for free download in pdf.  These books are compilations of tips from over 200 travel bloggers.

Triposo is a free Android  app that has access to world travel guides offline.  there is a world guide and guides for over 8,000 destinations.

Tutorials & Training has a good number of links to computer related resources around the web.   Some interesting items here and the site is still maintained.  Download and viewing options vary as the links are offsite.

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