Many ebooks are no longer copyright protected and so can be shared freely in any form. This thread is to share book sources like that. You are also encouraged to share your free legal ebook sources here. To start off, I'll share a couple
1. Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today. You can download your books in plain text format. Some of the books which are illustrated can be downloaded in pdf format.
Project Gutenberg can be accessed at http://www.gutenberg.org.
2. University of Virginia Electronic Texts center - has pursued twin missions with equal seriousness of purpose since its inception in 1992:
To build and maintain an internet-accessible collection of SGML and XML-encoded texts and images
To build and maintain user communities adept at the creation and use of these materials
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/
3. Nalanda Digital Library at NIT Calicut, India
Nalanda Etext Conversion Project aims at converting the Public Domain Etexts in raw text format into eBooks in easily Screen-Readable PDF Format.The PDF books are optimised for screen-reading using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or higher.The font size is selected for easy reading on screen and may not be suitable for printing.
It can be accessed from http://www.nalanda.nitc.ac.in/resources/english/etext-project/
you are welcome to add your own, and moderators are requested to make this sticky. Hello Everyone,
here is another free audiobook site
LibriVox: free audiobooks
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. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public domain project.
here is the url http://librivox.org/
Last edited by birdteam on Tue Jan 24, 2006 1:28 pm; edited 1 time in total I like to read my e-books on a pocket pc. PDFs don't always load properly on mine, and I hate reading plain .txt files, so I usually get my e-books from Black Mask. They offer e-books in many, many different formats. anyone can provide some e-book website about the e-commerce? i am writing a paper about it, thanks in advance!
| michael88 wrote: |
| anyone can provide some e-book website about the e-commerce? i am writing a paper about it, thanks in advance! |
Not e-book websites, but these might still be useful.
E-Commerce Times
E-Commerce Research Forum
Digital Marketing, Electronic Retailing and Supply Chain Management
FTC E-Commerce InformationHow easy do you find it to read a book on a pda.
I'm an avid reader and would love to be able to access many books whilst travelling and not have to carry all of them.
I have a reasonable collection of ebooks and often thought that they would be great on a pda - I don't own one.
Do you find that there isn't enough room for the text or does one get used to it?
Since you all know of so many ebooks, how about audiobooks?
Is there anywhere you can download them?
I looked at the audiobook link and they dont have what im looking for so..
www.lib.ru <<< Very Big Literature and Music ( with audio books ) library in russian language 
I need ebooks on a few topics so please if anyone can help me out here:
1. Photography
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3. VLSI
4. Microelectronics
Any of the above would be a great help. I have surfed a few sites and am still unable to find any usefull material.
If anyone has any info of the above topics please be free to post a reply and I shall have a look at your suggestions.
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IF YOU WANT FREE BOOKS YOU CAN GO TO DIS WEBSITE:
www.free-ebooks.net.
HERE YOU WILL GET VARIOUS BOOKS LIKE:HEALTH,MARKETING,RELIGIOUS,
BUSINESS ADVERTISING AND LOTS MORE!! I don't like e-books that much, reading a book which is made of paper is much easier than reading a book on a screen. I even wouldn't find the courage to read it. 
If there will be a screen with the same light-reflecting properties as paper, I might start reading e-books. | Gieter wrote: |
| I don't like e-books that much, reading a book which is made of paper is much easier than reading a book on a screen. I even wouldn't find the courage to read it. If there will be a screen with the same light-reflecting properties as paper, I might start reading e-books. |
Well you could always take the e-book and, oh I don't know, print it out? | Nameless wrote: |
| Gieter wrote: | | I don't like e-books that much, reading a book which is made of paper is much easier than reading a book on a screen. I even wouldn't find the courage to read it. If there will be a screen with the same light-reflecting properties as paper, I might start reading e-books. |
Well you could always take the e-book and, oh I don't know, print it out? |
I still prefer books. Those are binded, have a nice cover, are nicer to read,.. and I'm not willing to spend paper and printer's ink on it Although, you have mentioned about project Gutenberg, you have not mentioned about its free DVD/CD project..
Go to:
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/cdproject/dvdreq-int.html
for all international people(except US) and order free DVD/CD containing about 10000 eBooks..
And for US, go to:
http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/cdproject/dvdreq-usa.html
Hope this post is useful to many people...
>> Sid Maybe the most comprehensive place to get computer ebook is in www.ilmukomputer.com
Most topics about computing are in the website and free. It's my first time trying ebook. Though I prefer real books. Thanks for the links.
Some excellent resources, especially the University of Virginia - I've gotten a lot of good materials from them for a long time.
Be careful what you post here, however: I had to remove a few links because they did not point to legitimate sights of public-domain ebooks, but to illegal, pirated copies of copyrighted works, which directly violates the FriHost Terms of Service and Forum Rules.
There is no reason to lock or remove this thread, since I simply removed the illegal posts.
Please continue to post legal links, and be aware that, MOST of the time, books about computer topics (esp. current programming guides for PHP, MySQL, etc.) are copyrighted, and have not been placed into the public domain by their publishers. Even if you may be able to view the book freely over the Internet via a publisher's website, that does not mean they have granted anyone the license to post the entire book for download elsewhere. hey i have a quite popular website
i am thinking of posting some ebooks but it was wriiten on the website from where i downloadded them that they are copywrited....
so can LEGALLY post them on my website
That LibriVox website looks exciting. I've recently become interested in doing some audiobooks, just for my own amusement, but knowing that there's a place to do this for the benefit of others is pretty neat. Thanks for the link!
hey thanks guys for the wonderful sites me ..............it surly was a great discovery for me .
