783 Places for Free eBooks Online

obooko  offers well over a thousand  free books by self publishing authors for download.  Nice categorization helps to get to titles you want. Free registration is required, but I have received no spam at all.

Old World Travel has a small collection of classic public domain travel books.  These are not guides, but stories of travels.  All appear to link to Archive.org, where there is a choice of several formats.

One Hundred Free Books  updates hourly free listings from Amazon.  You have the option to choose the latest free offerings or from many category listings.  They also offer Hand Picked listings.  email updates available.  Thanks to Ed Crotty for this site.

OnlineBooks4free large collection of links to other sites for online viewing or download.  Nicely categorized.

Online Books Page from the University of Pennsylvania  is a listing of over 30,000 free books on the web.   Mostly this references to other sites, but they do have the Gutenberg listings available for download as well as some interesting special exhibits.

OnlineChristianLibrary has a large collection of christian ebooks available for download in pdf.  Also, a number of reference books are available.

OnlineComputerBooks - Good selection of free computer books.

OnlineFreeeBooksNet - links to various ebooks (mostly pdf) in a wide variety of categories.  Also, a large number of manuals available.

Online Library of Liberty hosts over an interesting collection of over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for download.

OnlineMathematicsTextbooks  This site is courtesy of Georgia Tech University and offers 77 free math textbooks for free online reading or for free download in PDF (click on chapter heading for PDF link - download is chpater by chapter).

Online Novels.net links to free original stories, poetry and short stories online.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.

Online Programing Books large colleciton of  free computer and mathematics books for free reading online and free download in PDF.

OpenCulture has an interesting listing of classic science fiction on the web.  There are links to text, audio and video.  Some very interesting entries here.  Also they have a post with links to 300 great classic novels for free on the web.    Also, offers links to about 60 free math textbooks online.

Open Culture  has links to 20 free popular high school ebooks.  These are classic works.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

Open Culture   has links to 160 free textbooks online in 19 different subjects.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links to a variety of sites.

Open Culture   has links to 375 free ebooks offered in Kindle format (as well as other formats).  Most of these are classics, but there is a decent collection of Philip K Dick and a couple of other more recent works.

OpenLibraryOrg has a huge collection of free novels available for reading online and for download in a large variety of options.  Over 1,000,000 titles available.  A great resource-thanks to Robert Collins for this.

OpenStax College  n has only a few textbooks, but they appear to be high quality.  All are availalble for free reading online or free download in PDF or EPUB.

O'Reilly has an open software books project where some of the books were created as open source and others have been added as they are no longer in print.  While most are older, there is still a good deal of relevant information here.

Other Women's Voices a collection of works by woman authors, who produced a substantial amount of work before 1700  All are available for free reading online.

OxfordOwl has over 250 free ebooks for free reading online in a flash player.  Age range is from 3 to 11.  Audio and associated activites are also available for most, if not all, the free ebooks.  Thanks to Katharine for this nice link.

OxfordTextArchive - Over 2,000 classical texts downloadable as ASCII or DOC

PagebyPage a few hundred works available for online viewing.

PalaceofAmino has the 9 book "Bounty Hunter" series available for free download in pdf.

Paul's Online Math Notes provides free materials for college level mathematics courses.  These are available for free viewing online as well as free download in PDF.  No registration necessary.

Payton Lee  offers 17 of her romance works and several short stories for download in pdf.  The downloads are at LuLu, which supposedly requires registration to download, but I was able to download and did not have to register.

PBSKids  has a few read along stories as well as several short educational videos for young children.

PDFBooks - 4,700 pdf ebooks

PDFFreeBooks Small collection of children's books and two rare books on Syriac grammar and Arabic-English lexicon.  Available for download in PDF or DJVU.

PDF Titles  has a good sized collection of classic novels in a wide variety of genres available for free download in PDF without registration.

Pelican Book Groups  has 16 free unique romance novels in its free reads section.  These are available for free download in PDF after free registration (no credit card needed).

PennLibraries has several special collections for online viewing, including a Celebration of Women Writers

PennsylvaniaOnlineHistoryBooks provides links to online books regarding the history of Pennsylvania.

PerseusDigitalLibrary - A large collection of classical texts broken down to time period written.

Philosophy Pages provides links to the works of Philosophy within its discussions.  The site provides 3 methods of finding information. History, Timeline and Major Philosophers.  The links are offsite, but all of the ones I checked were available for free reading online without registration.

Pixel Of Ink    is another site that regularly posts free Kindle eBooks listings from Amazon.  They offer eMail updates.

PixelScroll   has free Kindle books listings as well as free Kindle Fire Apps and Free Kindle Fire MP3s  listings.  As with the other listings in this section, these are time limited offers.  They do offer email and RSS updates, but those include non-free offerings.

PlaneteBook - Free classical literature

Planet Math huge collection of math related material.  All the items I looked at were available for free online viewing at the site.  No registration needed.

PlanetPDFeBooks - Small collection of classical works.

PlanetOzKids  has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals.  Also available are detective stories to work along with.  All available for online viewing.

Powell's offers the same novels as Try Harlequin, but these are available for free download in PDF without registration.

ProfessorGarfield offers 11 free books for beginner readers.  These are nicely illustrated and are read in their "toon reader".  There is an option to have the book read aloud using human voices as the child reads.  Interesting and unique collection.  Available in several languages.  Other activities also available at the site.

ProgrammingeBooks has a very nice collection of downloads and links for a wide variety of programming languages.

Project Gutenberg Australia over 1600 novels and an assortment of other works available in varying ways, including test, pdf and online viewing

Project Gutenberg Canada a huge collection of free classic novels.  All are avaiable for free reading online and free download in usually PDF or TEXT without registration.

Project Gutenberg (USA) - Over 25,000 books for download there and over 100,000 available through their affiliates.  All available for free online viewing and free download in a wide variety of formats without registration.

PsychClassics has 25 books on site for reading, links to 200 other books and about 200 articles all classic works in the field of Psychology.

PublicBookShelf around 150 books in varying categories for online viewing. 

PublicDomain A very interesting site as it not only has links to classic novels for online reading, but also has links to audio books and movie adaptations of the novels.   Thanks to Rapunzel for this excellent suggestion.

PublicLiterature Has some unique public domain novels among its classic collection of around 100 books.  Also has a large selection of writings submitted by authors which are free and legal to download, but not to distribute.  All are available for online viewing and download in several formats.

PubMed Bookshelf is an engine which lets you search for books containing keywords of your choice and then browse them.

PubMed Central This search engine covers all the open-access articles [rather than books] available on PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's main scientific portal (where you can also find abstracts from many restricted-access articles).

PulseIt  a site for teens from Simon and Schuster.  They offer free ebooks of recent releases for teens to read online and review.  Free registration is required and the books are available for free reading online through their reader.  Some are excerpts, but there were a number of whole novels available when I looked.

Pup?l Garage  has links to free ebooks online.  There are a few hundred free ebook offerings in each of the several categories.   Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.  none of the sites I visited required registration.

PyrSF offers the first book, The Crooked Letter,  from Sean Williams' Books of the Cataclysm series for free download in pdf.

PuzzlEd  is not a book site, but has links to sites offering free books (which will be incorporated here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw and other puzzles and other activities for children.

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