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The Best Sites to Find Books You Can Read For Free

By Wendy Boswell, About.com

Read books online for free with my picks for the best free online books sites. Here are just a few that I've found; you can find even more books to read in my article titled Read Books Online - The Best Sites to Read Books Online.
  • ReadPrint.com: "Our website offers thousands of free books for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast." Lots of great titles here, including Jane Eyre, 1984, and Hamlet.
  • ManyBooks.net: free books for your PDA or iPod. Includes book reviews.
  • The Literature Network: Search by author here; many classic authors are represented.
  • Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture Notes: Every computer subject and programming language you can think of is represented here.
  • Librivox.org: "LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet."
  • LearnOutLoud.com: "your one-stop destination for audio and video learning." Over 10,000 selections at the time of this writing.
  • Authorama.com: "completely free books from a variety of different authors, collected here for you to read online or offline."

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