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http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-6-sites-to-get-free-ebooks/
which has links for several others, including:

http://www.manybooks.net/
http://www.feedbooks.com/
http://www.booksinmyphone.com/

Most cell phones make decent ebook readers.

A couple of clicks at http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ or it's mobile site and you can get some book apps running in just about any phone.

The main stumbling blocks are that it's only really 'click to install' if you have internet access and the carriers have not crippled your phone to try to extract more $ from you. Those aside I had a fine reading experience on my four year old phone.

The http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ eReader for cell phones has everything you mention - except the texture. It pages rather than scrolls. It does not give page numbers but does have chapter and page scroll bar style 'thumbs' at the edge of the screen, so you get a rough guide where you are (reassuring in some of the longer novels)while still having the tantalizing uncertainty about exactly where you are. They give away books so there is nothing to stop you reading a few to get used to them.

I haven't written the novel on my cellphone, but my YA fantasy MORTAL GHOST, as well as other more well-known SF titles, are available to download that way. If you're curious, here's the link:

http://www.booksinmyphone.com/index.php?list=book&id=lowl01

I have been reading on my cell phone, http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ has a nice reader and a good selection of packaged up public domain and CC books. I think phones have a lot of potential. Their screens can get a little bigger while still being pocket-able (essential?). I don't really understand why the manufacturers don't include eReader software on the phones.

Web browsers and PDF readers are not really good 'book readers', it's nice to 'page' rather than 'scroll'.

Cell phones seem to make fine eBook readers, mainly because you are already carrying one. I've not found _Harry Potter_ but you can get free PD and CCL books at http://www.booksinmyphone.com/.

http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ lets you have the portability advantages of the dead-tree versions (better even as you are carrying the phone anyway) for a good selection of PD content.

I like loading books from http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ into my cellphone (its just an ordinary LG, not a fancy PDA or anything like that) to read during my commute (its great and its cheaper than my latte). They've done a really good job with the reader - its easy to read and real easy to use. You can even adjust the font size if you need to. It auto bookmarks when I exit book mode - on my commute home I just pick up where I left off. At night when my partner has gone to sleep, I can read with the lights off on night vision mode. I'm totally hooked!!!!

I heard the same interview. The guy was very disingenuous - claiming that the phone industry put cameras in phones because people were demanding it - I guess they were also demanding to have to get the photos off the phone via the carrier's 'pay for bandwidth use' system rather than straight to their PC via a cable or bluetooth. My cousin's Sprint phone is totally locked down, he was trying to upload a book from http://www.booksinmyphone.com/ but even using some OSS uploader he was unable to install the book.