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History Podcasts - it's history podcasts.com — it's history podcasts.com - the home of the 28-minute history audio podcast. 45 Top Websites To Download Free EBooks. The Internet is an amazing source of information including eBooks so it’s no wonder that so many people want to download free eBooks.

45 Top Websites To Download Free EBooks

Not only are eBooks far more convenient than your standard, paper book but they are also cheaper, easier to transport, and can literally be read anywhere especially if you have a laptop, tablet, or eReader such as the Amazon Kindle. So, with all of that being said, we decided to put together a list of the 45 Top Websites To Download Free eBooks. Not only are these sites 100% free but you’ll find a great selection of eBooks to choose from regardless of what genre you prefer. You can also discover great authors and people just like you. You know, people that love a good a read.

We know you’re absolutely going to love this list! Advertisement Scribd Scribd is the site where the world comes to read, discover, and share. More Information on Scribd. Free eBooks & AudioBooks for Mobile Computers, eBook Readers & Linux. Do you want to read free eBooks and eTexts?

Free eBooks & AudioBooks for Mobile Computers, eBook Readers & Linux

Free as in freedom? Many of them are published under a free license, e.g. Creative Commons, GPL. Here you may find some links to free eBooks, which you may read on your Linux PDA, Linux TabletPC or Linux laptop or some eBook reader. Not much yet but I hope it works as a start. Online Books, ebooks - 180 Free Technology Tip #24.

Technology Tip Number 24 eBook'em Danno? It’s going to take a couple of years and probably a few major court battles but Google and another organization called the Internet Archive is working to create a searchable internet databases of all the world’s books. There have been other efforts along these lines such as the Gutenberg Project which currently offers 25,000 free online ebooks and Lit2Go which comes from Florida's Educational Technology Clearinghouse . The Google project can be found here: They have already scanned thousands of books from major universities all across the nation.

You can search their database and read the books right off the screen like this: As you might imagine this book scanning project has caused an eruption of copyright issues. This all has obvious implications for educators so we thought we’d share it with you as today’s technology tip. Watch it in action. 5 Places To Find Free Educational eBooks. Hunting down classic literature and important manuscripts may mean more than a quick Google search for many of us. You may turn to paid sources like Amazon or even (the humanity!) Turn to printed books in your library. The horror! We kid. We love the library and feature effective ways to use libraries all the time.

So what happens when Google, Amazon, and your local library come up short in your quest for free educational eBooks? The Harvard Classics Some of the most important works of literature are a part of the dozens of volumes available in The Harvard Classics. Project Gutenberg Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free e-books (free epub books, free kindle books, read online, or download them). Bartleby The go-to source for the classics, Bartleby.com features Gray’s Anatomy, the Harvard Classics (see above), the King James Bible, and just about every major publication you could ever require.

OER Commons ICDL – International Children’s Digital Library. CALL Scotland - Microsoft Reader Quick Guides. 20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks. 20 Sites to Download Free eBooks for your Digital Library With all the technology around these days, we don’t need a tree to make a book.

20 Best Websites to Download Free eBooks

Scholastic survey of 2014 shows that 61% of school kids in the USA read digital books vs. 25% in 2010. Print books, CDs, Blu-ray discs are going to the past. Now we can download eBooks onto our Kindles, iPads, iPod, phones, laptops… the list is endless. Load2Learn. Freebook Sifter - A Resource for Free eBooks. Millions of Free eBooks and Audio Books Online. 375 Completely Free Ebooks for Every Device.

A List of Some of The Best Websites to Download Free Ebooks. Ebooks are ubiquitous everywhere online.

A List of Some of The Best Websites to Download Free Ebooks

Some are paid and most of them are free. Scholars and students all around the world prefer the electronic formats of books because of many reasons. First off they are, most of the time, free and easily accessible. They are also portable and offer greater mobility options. If you have a smart phone or an e-reader then you can read your ebooks whenever and wherever you want. I know some educators have never embarked on an online reading experience and some others find it hard to search for and find free versions of ebooks they want to read. Google Books : This is my number one.

Bookboon: This is also a great website where you can download free ebooks . Google Scholar : This is like a search engine but just for documents and textbooks. Free Book Spot : Scribd: If you still do not know this website then it is one of the most known online document sharing sites which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. Free Audiobooks and eBooks - Librophile.