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Good Online Sources for Free Books?
hydopower asks: "I recently stumbled upon a collection of online libraries. This was fascinating to me, but too many of them cost money or offer Google Print-like limited functionality. I decided to put together a list of sites that offer free books in a format that would allow a person to actually read through them. As Slashdot readers are known for being well read and for enjoying free things, I figured I'd tap into the knowledge pool here. Any suggestions?"
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Project Gutenberg
Lots of literature. And most are just straight text so you can read them with anything.
Gutenburg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
gus
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Try the Baen Free Library. You are out of luck here if you don't like "sci fi", and the selection is rather small, but the files are nice and unemcumbered and they do have some great ones like Fallen Angels.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
O'reilly offers a few of their books under an open doc license: http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/
"He was a wise man who invented beer." - Plato
How about Creative Commons?
Celebrate the finer things in life
Do they have a book on basic use of HTML? :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
The Perseus project at Tufts is an excellent source of ancient literature, as well as some translations.
;)
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
If true classics are your thing.
Online Books Page From UPenn.
THE most complete listing I have seen.
Cory Doctorow:
Eastern Standard Tribe (CC)
A Place So Foreign (and eight more) (CC)
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (CC)
Lawrence Lessig:
Free Culture
Tech and science books:
Version Control with Subversion (CC)
An open source math book
Light and Matter, a series of physics texts by Ben Crowell
Lists:
The Assayer is a place to find and review open books.
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
There's a great place a few buildings over from here. The registration process is a pain (you have to give them various bits of personal information), but the books you can get are almost unlimited -- they've had almost everything I've looked for, including some fairly obscure SF -- and it's free.
The real advantage is the books you get can be read with no special equipment. (Some people use special glasses, but I've never needed them)
It's called a library.
Or did you mean books you can keep, and only in electronic format?
Try The Assayer. It's a catalog of free books, specializing in modern books that have been set free by their authors (not old public domain books, which you can get on Project Gutenberg). Users can also submit reviews. There are some links here that might also be of interest.
Find free books.
There's a nice little online book trading co-op at http://www.bookcrossing.com./ People share books, trade books, and "release books into the wild" to track them. Kinda fun.
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