How to Find and Download Free eBooks Survival Guide (16 page)
Web address:
http://girlebooks.com
Number of available books:
137
Categories
: Female authors only
Prominent authors:
Jane Austen, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Mary Shelley, Kate Chopin, and more
Available formats:
Nook/Stanza (ePUB), Kindle/Mobi/Palm (PRC), Microsoft Reader (LIT), Plain Text (TXT), PDF
Tips and Tricks:
Click 'eBook Catalog' to view all eBooks. Click 'Select Category' to choose a genre. Click a book cover to view its description. Click a format to download it.
Additional Notes:
Use the 'Also available at:' links to find the book on another website. Use the 'For Authors' to submit your own work for consideration.
Web address:
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Number of available books:
33,000
Categories
: Classics
Prominent authors:
Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Homer, Voltaire, Mary Shelley, and more
Available formats:
Nook/Stanza (ePUB), Kindle/Mobi/Palm (PRC), HTML, Plucker (PDB), Plain Text (TXT), QiOO Mobile (QIOO)
Tips and Tricks:
Click 'Browse Catalog' and then click a letter under 'Authors' or 'Titles'. Click a language to view all related books. Click a title to view a books' description. Click the 'Download' tab to view all available formats. Click a format to download the eBook.
Additional Notes:
Click 'Read this ebook online' to view the online HTML version of the book. Click 'Bookshelf' on the home page to view book suggestions for various genres. Click 'Partners, Affiliates, and Resources' on the home page to view links to additional Gutenberg sites and other eBook resources.
Web address:
http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Number of available books:
2,633,177
Categories
: Various
Prominent authors:
Various
Available formats:
Various
Tips and Tricks:
This website is a reference tool for finding free eBooks on the internet. Use the Search field at the top of the page to find eBooks. Click the drop-down menu to select a database to search.
Additional Notes:
Audiobooks are also available. Many links are provided to educational and other useful websites.
Web address:
http://manybooks.net
Number of available books:
29,000
Categories
: Various
Prominent authors:
Winston Churchill, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Karl Marx, Napoleon, and more
Available formats:
Nook/Stanza (ePUB), Kindle/Mobi/Palm (PRC), HTML, PalmDOC (PDB), Plain Text (TXT), PDF, Rich Text (RTF), Sony Reader (LRF)
Tips and Tricks:
Click 'Authors', 'Titles', 'Genres', or 'Languages' to browse books. Click a title to view its description. Click the 'Download' drop-down menu to select a format. Click 'Download' to download the eBook. Some formats require registration.
Additional Notes:
Registering with the website gives access to the Wishlist feature. Wikipedia and WorldCat links are provided to give more information about authors.
Web address:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?order=desc&sort=dateline
Number of available books:
16,000
Categories
: Action, Biography, Spiritual, Philosophy, Young Adult
Prominent authors:
Daniel Defoe, H.G. Wells, Hans Christian Andersen, Agatha Christie, Bertrand Russell, and many more
Available formats:
Nook/Stanza (ePUB), Kindle/Mobi/Palm (PRC), Sony Reader (LRF), eBookwise (IMP)
Tips and Tricks:
Click the 'Format' drop-down menu to select a format to display. Select 'ALL' to see all eBook formats. Click the 'Genre' drop-down menu to select a book category. Click 'Go' to view all related media. Click a title to view its description. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click one of the attached files to download the eBook.
Additional Notes:
MobileRead is an eBook community that contains blogs about many eBook topics. Links to other useful resources are also provided.
Web address:
http://www.munseys.com
Number of available books:
20,000
Categories
: Various
Prominent authors:
Francis Bacon, Lord Byron, O'Henry, Robert Sheckley, Ivan Turgenev, and more
Available formats:
Nook/Stanza (ePUB), Kindle/Mobi/Palm (PRC), HTML, Plucker (PDB), PDF, Sony Reader (LRF), Microsoft Reader
Tips and Tricks:
Scroll down on the home page to browse by category. Click the 'By' drop-down menu to select a search method and type in the related search term. Click a letter at the top of the search results to display all authors whose last name starts with that letter.
Additional Notes:
Munseys uses tags, such as genres, titles, authors, and more. Tags allow readers to find books more easily. There is also a blog for sharing thoughts with fellow readers.
Web address:
http://www.planetebook.com
Number of available books:
82
Categories
: Classics
Prominent authors:
George Orwell, Jonathan Swift, John Milton, Franz Kafka, Herman Melville, and more
Available formats:
PDF
Tips and Tricks:
All eBooks are listed on the home page. Click a title to view its description. Right-click '1-page version' (portrait) or '2-page version' (landscape) and click 'Save link as'. Click 'Save' to download the eBook.
Additional Notes:
Blog and newsletter are available on this website.
Web address:
http://www.planetpdf.com/free_pdf_ebooks.asp
Number of available books:
60
Categories
: Classics
Prominent authors:
Charles Dickens, Aesop, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and more
Available formats:
PDF
Tips and Tricks:
All available eBooks are listed on the home page. Click a title to view its description. Right-click a PDF icon and click 'Save link as'. Click 'Save' to download the eBook.
Additional Notes:
This website provides tagged PDFs, which are optimized for eReaders, with better navigation
Web address:
http://runeberg.org
Number of available books:
1067
Categories
: Nordic
Prominent authors:
Various
Available formats:
HTML
Tips and Tricks:
Click 'Catalog' at the top of the page to view all titles. Click a title to read it.
Additional Notes:
The first book in the Catalog is a guide to learning the Norsk (Icelandic) language. This is necessary to be able to read the books, which are written in the Icelandic language.
Web address:
http://collections.stanford.edu
Number of available books:
Not applicable
Categories
: Educational
Prominent authors:
Various
Available formats:
Various
Tips and Tricks:
Click a link to an external database to browse it.
Additional Notes:
Not applicable
Web address:
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html
Number of available books:
Categories
: Classics, Youth, History, Technology, Philosophy, Religion, and more
Prominent authors:
Various
Available formats:
HTML
Tips and Tricks:
Click a genre to browse the related books. Click a title to read it. Click 'By Title' or 'By Author' at the top to sort the books accordingly.
Additional Notes:
Not applicable
Web address
: http://books.google.com/ebooks
Number of available books:
3,000,000
Categories
: Various
Prominent authors:
Various
Available formats:
ePub, PDF, HTML
Tips and Tricks:
Click 'Search eBookstore' to find a book. To browse, click a category on the left side of the page. Click a title to view the book description. Click 'Read now' to read the eBook online if your eReader has a built-in web browser. Click 'Read on your device' to download the eBook.
Additional Notes:
Works with the Google eBooks application, available for Android and Apple devices.
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All eBooks are not created equal. The quality of an eBook varies greatly between publishers. This chapter explains the benefits of MobileReference electronic books.
Table of Contents
1. Active Table of Contents
2. Author Collections from MobileReference
3. Travel Guides from MobileReference
4. Study Guides from MobileReference
5. Reference Books from MobileReference
6. Other Selected Books from MobileReference
How do you find a poem you want to read among 2,000 other poems? Anyone reading an electronic edition of Emily Dickinson is confronted with this question. To facilitate the process, our editors included an
Index of First Lines
, sorted alphabetically. To search the MobileReference edition of Emily Dickinson poems for "I'm nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too? …", you click on the link
Index of First Lines
, click on the link
-I-
, then scroll and find
"I'm nobody, who are you?"
. This method of indexing electronic books is called an Active Table of Contents. The illustration below shows the active table of contents from Emily Dickinson collected poems:
Looking for a poem or a story in a book that contains hundreds of stories is much easier with an active table of contents. Automatically scanned books often lack an active table of contents and links to footnotes. MobileReference editors carefully examine each book and insert links to individual stories, poems, letters, and footnotes to improve the reading experience and simplify electronic book navigation. The result is high quality books with active tables of contents.
An active Table of Contents is essential for books that require quick navigation to chapters and verses. The King James Bible published by MobileReference has both book and chapter navigation links. In just a few clicks, you can be reading any verse in the Bible. The Table of Contents has quick links to both the Old and New Testaments, Deuterocanonical literature, the Suggested Reading Lists, Glossary, List of Illustrations, and the A-Z Index. Just select the book you want to read and go directly to it. Once you have opened the book, you can select the chapter you want in just one click. For example, if you want to select Matthew, chapter 7:12, you could go to the Table of Contents, click on the New Testament link, click on the book of Matthew, then click on the chapter 7 link at the top of the page and scroll to 7:12.
MobileReference pioneered the publication of collections of works by a particular author in a single electronic book. This was motivated in part by the desire to reduce the clutter of titles in the digital library. Consider the collection 'Works of Charles Dickens' that contains more than 200 works. When purchased individually, every book has its own entry in your digital library. To select a book in a digital library of 200 books, one needs to scroll through as many as 20 pages of the library. MobileReference's '
Works of Charles Dickens
' organizes all of these books into one electronic volume that has a single representation in the digital library.