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LIBRARY GUIDE TO Free e-books

E-books at Kresge

Full listing of e-book collections, available to OU-affiliated users.
 
Searching for ebooks online
Google Book Search
provides full-text of out of copyright books (generally, books published before 1930) and "snippets" of books in copyright.

Directory of Open Access Books
academic books in open access.
Sources of free ebooks online
Google Book Search
provides full-text of out of copyright books (generally, books published before 1930) and "snippets" of books in copyright.

Google Play
books that are out of copyright are available for free (Enter your author or work title in the search box; at the top of your result list, select the "All prices" pull down menu and select "free").

Hathi Trust
a large digital library providing full-text access to books in the public domain and search service for books in copyright. The books come from a variety of sources including  Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and partner institutions. Users affiliated with HathiTrust partner institutions are able to download books in the public domain in their entirety.

Project Gutenberg
thousands of free ebooks, which can be downloaded to your portable devices in ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.

Internet Archive
contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books.

Knowledge Unlatched
a growing number of university press books made available in all disciplines.

Free-ebooks.net
a large online bookstore with anything in fiction and non-fiction, all free. Ranges from classics in the public domain and self-published authors.

The Open Library
its ambition is to have a record for every book ever published. For each book, it indicates availability online or in print. You can limit the search to ebooks and you can download them to your device.

Gallica
the national library of France has a large collection of books fully available online. It recently launched an ebook program, so you can download ebooks in the epub, mobi, HTML or plain text formats.

University of California Press E-book Collections, 1982-2004
UCP has made available online some of the books in its digital library, mostly published in the mid-1980s to mid-1990s period. Particularly strong in English and history.

Wayne State University Press open access books
Important works published by the press

University of California Press Luminos
Scholarly books published in open access

Liverpool University Press
Books in the humanities

Project Muse and JSTOR
both offer books from major university presses in open access

Digitalculturebooks
Books on new media and digital humanities from the University of Michigan Press

National Academies Press
thousands of free ebooks from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (PDF format).

Open Humanities Press
Scholarly books available for free.

Feedbooks
this online ebook store offers thousands of public domain ebooks and original books for free.

OpenEdition Books
Humanities and social sciences books (in French)
Ebook reader software
Adobe Digital Editions
Free software that provides "an engaging way to view and manage ebooks". Use it to organize and read all your ebooks, purchased or free.

Calibre
manages your e-book collection on your computer.
You can use it to view e-books, to sort your collection and search in it.
Calibre also converts e-book formats to the format of your choice, and syncs your books with your e-reader. And much more!

Calibre is a free downloadable application.
Ebooks on your mobile
Google Play books
for the iphone, ipad and ipod touch. Also for Android.

eBook Search
a free app to search and dowload free ebooks to the reader of your choice

Aldiko: for Android

Free e-book.net
the online free e-bookstore has its own app for the iphone and Android.
New releases from Manybooks.net

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