783 Places for Free eBooks Online

uMassAmherstAesop'sFables offers a collection of Aesop's fables, with illustrations from students in the Computing in the Fine Arts course for online viewing.

Universal Digital Library  has a large collection of free works from around the world.  Several categories, mostly non-fiction, and search by author, title and chronologically.  These are available in TIFF, PDF HTML, TXT and RTF.

University of Washington offers a free PDF download of a college level Pre-Calculus textbook.  There may be other free textbooks, but I could not locate them.

UPenn Digital Library   has a large collection of writings by woman authors and also has within its A Celebration of Women Writers collection a section for Newberry honor books written by women (Newberry is an award for children books given out by the Library Association) spanning from 1922 to 1964. 

Victorian Women Writers Project Indiana University host this collection of lesser known British women writers of the 1th century..  All the works are available for free reading online.

Vintage Cookbooks has links to, and downloads of, vintage cookbooks from around the web.  These range in date from the 1700s to 1939.  Some children and ethnic cookbooks are also offered.  Download options vary as some link offsite.

Virtual Math Lab West Texas A & M provides online textbooks for the study of Algebra at the college level and also for preparation for the GRE math exams.

VirtualReligionIndex has a very large collection of religious works for ancient religions as well as the modern major religions available for free viewing online.

Vitalita The Vitalita Culinary Group is offering two free vegan cookbooks for download in text.  A Taste of Vitality and Desserts of Vitality include pictures of the finished dishes.

Von'sBooks  has free online science fiction written from a Christian prospective.  Most of these are incomplete, but there are several complete novels available for free reading online.  Main link is to the Scifi section, but there is also a Fantasy section.

WackyWebTales offers a good size collection of short tales for 3rd graders and above. Geared to help with parts of speech.

Walking By The Way a very impressive listing of free ebooks for children for the Kindle from various sites on the web.  Information on the age group appropriate for the various offerings is given.  Many of the ebooks are also available in other formats.

Waterloo Station The Sherlock Holmes Society of Austin, Texas, has a good number of the Holmes works available for free reading online.  Nice feature is that they have the stories listed in chronological order of the dates in the stories.

Wattpad offers a huge collection of free works.  These are original and unpublished works.  There mostly are short stories, but a good number of novels and novellas.  Nicely divided into categories and sub-categories.

Web-Books offers over a thousand classic works divided into several categories.  These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database.  Viewing the downloads requires their Web Viewer (free) which is clean as far as I can tell

WeGiveBooks has 198 books available for online reading in a flash player.  Reading the books helps to distribute books to children around the world.  Over 1 million books have been read and given away.  Age range is from newborn to teens.  Thanks to aJane for this nice site.

Weird Tales Magazine short stories from the online magazine for free reading online.

Western Settler Saga  has links to 2 free Western novels at Smashwords, which means they are available for free download in a wide variety of formats as well as free reading online.

Whitman Calculus a free collegel level Calculus textbook for free download in PDF without registration.  Scroll down page for chapter by chapter downloads.

WHSmith all of the links for the free ebooks go to Kobo, which is listed above.  I put this in as a separate listing as they separate the books into some categories that are not listed at Kobo.  Books may be downloaded in PDF or EPUB.

WikiBooks has a large collection of free works in a good sized amount of categories available for free reading online.

WikiSource  has a nice size collection of  novels from the late 19th century and early 20th century available for free reading online.  Some are also available as audio works.

WikiTravel  an online travel guide in Wiki form available for free reading online without registration.

WildRosePress  offers 73 romance short stories download in pdf or lit or reading online.

WiredForBooks  has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio.

WitGuides - Small collection of free ebooks in a variety of categories.

Wolfram Mathworld an excellent resource of math related information.  All available for free reading online without registration.

WordIQ Nice collection of over 10,000 books available for online viewing.    There are some unusual entries here, but hard to find unless looking for specific title or author.

World Literary Cafe  has daily forum postings of limited time free ebooks at Amazon.  Interesting twist here is that there are also postings for free offerings that will come up in the near future.

WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.

WorldPublicLibrary - The public selection appears to be all to Project Gutenberg  collections.  But annual membership is only $8.95 for over 500,000 works.

WorldWideSchool  has a fairly large collection of free books spread across 12 categories, with numerous sub-categories.  Search by author name and title also available.  Available for online viewing.

Worthy of Publishing  has a large collection of free works in a wide selection of genres.  These range from poems and short stories to novels.  All are available for free reading online without registration.  These are original works from unpublished authors.

Young Entrepeneur  has links to 38 free business ebooks.  Download and viewing options vary.

YourBedtimeStory There are not a lot of stories and the stories are not very long, but this site does have a nice twist that you can personalize the story.  There are also coloring pages along with the stories.

Your Daily eBooks only lists a couple of new free listings of Amazon's time limited offers each day, but supposedly they limit their listings to the best of the free time limited book offerings.  They do have RSS and email update options.

Zain has a smaller collection of free ebooks regarding computer science and business topics available for free reading online.

Zen Beast  lists both classic and recently released free ebooks at Amazon.  They also post free magazines, newspapers and blogs.  There are some ebooks that cost money mixed into the results, but they are easily identified.  Thanks to Leon Finch for this listing.

ZiggityZoom has 17 free online stories available for reading and listening.  These all are displayed in a flash player.  Geared to younger children.

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