Gloucester
City Library
Free Ebooks Online
Get information on Overdrive downloadable ebooks here.
You may also be interested in our main Books and Reading page, plus our pages on Children's Literature and Audiobooks
- 391 Places for free books online
- Amazon Kindle applications--read Kindle ebooks without a Kindle, using your PC, Mac, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod Touch, IPad, Windows Phone 7, or Android device (also usable with Kindle books checked out through the library's Overdrive system)
- Barnes and Noble applications - read B&N and Overdrive ebooks without a Nook on PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, or Android device
- Books On The Knob - bargain reads, free ebooks and book reviews for the Amazon Kindle, Nook, Kobo, Sony and other ereaders
- Calibre ebook management software - organize, convert, download, store, sync... and, it's free
- Daily Lit - subscribe and read part of a book each day
- Digital Book Index - links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books from more than 1800 commercial and non-commercial publishers, universities, and various private sites. More than 140,000 of these books, texts, and documents are available free.
- Ebrary
- Ereaderiq.com - Kindle price drop and freebie alerts, availability alerts when print books become available for Kindle, search tools to find free books for Kindle on particular topics or specific age groups
- The "Everything Guide" series of non-fiction books available for reading free online at Netplaces.com. Expand the topics on the left side to see titles available.
- Free PDF ebooks search engine
- Fullbooks.com - full-text e-books
- Google
ebookstore - the main page of the bookstore, including links to apps for
Android, iOS, Nook, Sony and web.
- Google ebooks Advanced Search - on this Advanced Search page, choose Full View Only if you just want to search for free books and magazine articles
- Internet Archive - full-text books, audio, moving images and more
- ManyBooks.net - more than 29,000 free ebooks
- National Academies Press - read nonfiction titles online for free, or download free pdf versions of all titles
- Online Books Page - links to over 30,000 free ebooks on the web, from University of Pennsylvania
- Overdrive - the library's downloadable audiobook and ebook service. Overdrive ebooks are now compatible with the Amazon Kindle, as well as Barnes and Noble Nook, the Kobo from Borders, the Sony Reader, and more. Now available as an iPhone app! As of July 2011, you can set the app to remember your library card number.
- Oxford Text Archive
- Project Gutenberg - the granddaddy of them all. Free ebooks usable on PC, Mac, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader, or other portable device
- ReadPrint - Thousands of novels, poems, stories to read online.
- Sony Reader applications -read Sony and Overdrive ebooks without the Sony Reader on your PC, Mac or Android device
- Teleread.org - the latest news on ebooks and the technology that allows you to read them.
- Wowio - register and get free ebooks; one of the few ebook sites that includes comics
Updated 10/5/2011