If you would like to be up to your eyeballs in free ebooks, then you’ll want to check out Project Gutenberg. Named for the first printed book, this site has thousands of free ebooks available.
While I love paper books so much that I still won’t even consider an e-reader, I have to admit that I really like taking advantage of the Project Gutenberg website.
All of the books on this website are free. There is no membership fees or cost. There is quality writing here, none of the free books that are really sales pitches or thrid-rate novels. Instead, all of the books on Project Gutenberg are classics that have appeared on paper and were published by publishing houses. The books either have expired copyrights are available as free domain or are purchased for the site.
The good folks at the site take the time to digitize everything in multiple formats. If you want to use an e-reader, fine, but you can also simply download a book to your computer as well.
You can browse the books by topic, do a search or simply see what other people are reading. It is like an online library except you never have to return the books and there are no fines. And did I mention that everything to read is free!
Charles Dickens and the Bronte sisters feature prominently in the most popular books, but there are also science books, books to teach you needlepoint, history, poetry and more.
Every books seems to be carefully chosen, so the site itself is a good reading list. After all, I’m a little lacking in my Kafka and Nietzsche. Of course, they may have to wait until after I read The Time Machine, The Wizard of Oz and How to Analyze People on Sight.