Lots of Free eBooks

Recently the eBook has finally started to reach the mass market with the introduction of a whole lot of new and impressive readers, like the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook and Kobo - plus of course, lots of cheaper readers for the mass market.

Some of the cheaper readers, like the MiGear, don't support DRM (copy protection) - although apparently the latest version now does. A lot of people see this as a major drawback but it's not. there are a lot of great free eBooks out there, you just need to know where to look.

Getting a Reader

Just in case you don't have a dedicated eBook reader device, don't forget that you can also read them on your PC (and on many of the smartphones). You can download the Adobe Digital Editions reader software for free (and you don't have to register it). It will happily read the ePub format. There are also lots of other formats including html, pdf, txt and rtf which will read on software you most likely already have installed.

There are some good review sites online which compare available readers (with links to download them). These could be a good starting point.

Getting Books

So, without Looking for free eBooks for your new reader?

Here's a few sites with some good books;

ManyBooks (http://manybooks.net/)

I was very impressed with this site, it's got several ways to locate eBooks, is very well laid out and has an amazing set of download formats available. Downloading takes seconds and there's no registration process.

Depending on your favourite genre, you can find a whole lot of great books here and some of these "old" writers are well worth a read. If you've never read the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, that's one you should certainly check out.

FanFiction.Net (http://www.fanfiction.net/)

Don't like old Books? FanFiction.Net has a whole heap of modern books which might not be written by the best writers but they're on "recent" topics. Many of these books are unauthorized sequels and spin-offs of popular movies and books and they make for interesting reading.

Free Tech Books (http://www.freetechbooks.com/)

Finally, if fiction isn't your scene, you can get lots of free techy books at freetechbooks.

Looking for more?

Check out FriedBeef's list of eBook sites.