Best Sites Like BookZZ
BookZZ has both fiction and nonfiction books and all kinds of genres (science fiction, fantasy, thrillers, romance) or types of ebooks (novels, comics, essays, textbooks).
You can access ebooks in two ways:
- by category (there are almost 30 main categories and hundreds of subcategories)
- Recently added eBooks
The navigation interface of this web page is not the best in the world and it can be a bit complicated to manage within it, but its database of books is so big that it is worth going for it. The perfect place to find books in English.
You could be surprised by the many free ebook sites on the network. Nowadays, you can easily find any popular (or not) online book. You just need to know where to look. Here are my favourite ebook sites:
Search Engines for ebooks:
They are simple search engines similar to Google, but PDF files. I usually start my search for ebooks using one of these sites. Type the title of the document or book you are looking for in the search box and click. Locate your book in the search results and click on the download link.
Scribd.com
In the case that you have never heard of this site before, the simplest way to define Scribd would be like the Youtube of the documents this is one of the best bookzz alternatives that is more popluar. The users can upload any text document they want and easily share it with the rest. You'll find lots and lots of free ebooks here. You just need to know what to look for. Try for example with George Orwell , Leo Tolstoi , etc.
And obviously, you can get copyright books, just like YouTube offers videos protected by copyright. I'm not sure they are doing anything to solve this, but the fact is that there is a lot of protected material in Scribd. Oh I forgot, Scribd is an excellent free source of templates for documents
Gutenberg Project
The Gutenberg Project (PG) has the largest collection of public domain books. These are the books whose copyright has "expired", and are available for anyone to use as best available. Lots of books by the best fiction authors in the world, such as Dickens, Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Po ...
This site of free online books is the oldest on the Internet. PG is a very popular website, and nowadays it has more than 20,000 titles. If you do not know where to start, check out their page with the Top 100 .
Free books for your iPod, PDA, Smartphone, Blackberry etc.
For those of you who like to have ebooks on your portable devices, we have some sites. Below you have what in my opinion are the best websites for books for this type of gadgets.
For iPhone users in particular there is a website called TextOnPhne . It is a great ebooks site that even has its own book reading application. There are more than 30,000 free books for your Apple toy. Take a look at his video-demo here .
Free technical ebooks
These sites are mainly technical books, ranging from computer science, engineering and mathematics to programming and web development.
DailyLit
DailyLit is a bit different from the rest, but I love what they do. DailyLit can send you a small paragraph of the book of your choice daily to your mail. A small paragraph every day, and so on until the book ends.
The reason it works so well is that it only takes you approx. 3-5 minutes read each paragraph. If you want to read more, you can request the following paragraph by clicking on a button.
While more than 50% of the books cost more or less $ 4.95 per unit, others are free. Tb there are plenty of good titles between free, including some of my favorites such as My Life and Work (Henry Ford), Siddhartha (Herman Hesse) and Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (John D. Rockefeller). Check it.