Read Books Free Online

The Best Sites to Read Books Free Online

The O'Reilly Open Books Project is a great way to find some of the best tech books out there.

If you're looking for free audiobooks, the web is the best place to find them. There are plenty of sites that offer free audiobooks that are in the public domain, read by very talented narrators.

The University of Adelaide has made available a wonderful collection of free Web books, organzied by author, title, theme, and full-text.

Looking for free online editions of classic books? Look no further than the Great Books Index, a large database of free online books, notes, and supplementary materials.

Here are five free eBooks that have caught my eye lately that I think you'll enjoy.

You can use Google Book Search to do a lot of things: find a book you're interested in, search within a book's text, download a book, search reference texts, even create your own Google Library of your favorite books.

Read over four hundred of the world's most rare and wonderful books at the Rare Book Room, an online repository of such classics as the Shakespeare Quartos, the complete copies of Poor Richard's Almanac by Benjaman Franklin, and the first printing of the Bill of Rights.

Good online study guides - the kind that aren't trying to sell you pre-packaged essays every five minutes - are few and far between. Here are a few of my favorites.

Are you trying to find information about a historical event? Looking for online archives for news, music, popular culture, or movie information? I've put together a good, basic list of online archives for you, with everything from the National Archives to Papyrus Archives (ancient Egyptian hieroglypics!) to Simpsons Archives.

ReadPrint has thousands of free books for download; from Jane Eyre to Yeats' poetry.