What are the best free "e-books" available online?

GeronL

[GeronL]

For someone who might have missed some classics or have just decided to stop being a DUmmie... what free ebooks would you recommend?

From any source, could be from Mises "library" or from Gutenberg.

Links if you got them!

[GeronL]

Thanks. And conservative leaning ebooks are very much appreciated.

[guitarplayer1953]

http://www.scribd.com do a search of differnt topics and see what comes up.

[Texas Fossil]

Take your pic from almost 30,000 volumes. Some in HTML (with pics) and some in .txt format.

All free downloads.

If you like classic literature, history or unusual books this is the place.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Good Example:

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -by Mackay

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/dvii.html

The Mississippi scheme — The south-sea bubble — The tulipomania — The alchymists — Modern prophecies — Fortune-telling — The magnetisers — Influence of politics and religion on the hair and beard — The crusades — The witch mania — The slow poisoners — Haunted houses — Popular follies of great cities — Popular admiration of great thieves — Duels and ordeals — Relics.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://manybooks.net/authors/randayn.html

Ayn Rand Anthem

[seton89]

If you have a Touch/iPhone-

http://www.lexcycle.com/

[combat_boots]

The Bible.

Also see http://www.conservativebooks.com or http://www.bamm.com.

Read the speeches of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. They’re online.

[Auntie Mame]

Unless you’re a regular user of the library, here’s a little-known secret: Your local library probably has scads of “free” ebooks. Anyone in Texas can get a library card at the Houston Public Library and probably other large city libraries. The amount of info online, including ebooks and research material (old newspapers), is phenomenal.

I await other responses to your inquiry.

[parsifal]

Whatever you do, stay away from Ayn Rand. It will rot your brain. There used to be a site called Gutenberg Press that had a lot of free books. Not sure if still there. I think that is where I discovered The Song Of Hiawatha wasn’t just the “by the shores of gitcheegoome” poem. If you can find it, The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer(?) is to die for.

parsy, who is way behind on his reading

[parsifal]

Here’s link. 30,000 of em.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

parsy, who found it!

[yarddog]

I don’t read a lot but noticed just about all the classics are available from multiple sources for free reading. I also just noticed the other day that the Sherlock Holmes stories are also online.

[LibFreeOrDie]

http://www.bartleby.com/

[GeronL]

lol!

[GeronL]

I definitely have Anthem!

[Talisker]

Whatever you do, stay away from Ayn Rand. It will rot your brain. ...If you can find it, The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer(?) is to die for.

LOL - Ayn Rand writes about not becoming what Hoffer calls a True Believer!

[GeronL]

! did not know about bartleby and scribd

[GeronL]

Reagan is THE man!

[GeronL]

I did not know that Auntie Mame. I just bought a new 4GB flashcard too!

[parsifal]

D*mb *ss parsifal! Texas fossil already had it linked. Next time, read some of the replies BEFORE you make an idiot out of yourself!

parsy, the red-faced

[PaleoBob]

Order a cheap copy of Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater from Amazon. I started with it in 1962 and the rest is history.

[Jet Jaguar]

http://warezun.com/ebooks-tutorials/699311-ebook-earth-abides-george-r-stewart-1949-a.html

Earth Abides by George Stewart is a great one.

[GeronL]

I read that a long time ago, from the local library... that was probably half my life ago

[Jemian]

This site is one of my favorite e-book sources.

[GeronL]

thanks

[Arthur McGowan]

http://tinyurl.com/mind-of-the-maker

[right way right]

http://www.biblegateway.com/

[GeronL]

It says only registered users can see the links

[PaleoBob]

It’s a classic.

[smokingfrog]

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/stats/top50.html

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/subjects/subjects-bible.html

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/washington/fitzpatrick/

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/eaf/authors/mt.htm

[WackySam]

http://manybooks.net/

[pyx]

There are a number of very good online sites for FREE ebooks.

I've found good books at; http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

and http://books.google.com/

and there are FREE ebook reader utilities that have enormous content including video, audio and ebooks such as;

Miro athttp://www.getmiro.com/

[Jet Jaguar]

Sorry, I have the hard copy. I recommend the book in any form.

[MrEdd]

Go to mobile read and look around. The deals and bargains section in their forums usually catches all the free places and the promotional deals, and they generally manage pre-release reviews on all the new electronic readers coming out.

My wife uses the Sony PRS-505

I use a smaller AZTAK Pocket Pro

Hope you find what you want.

[nodumbblonde]

Open Culture for classics.

[Brugmansian]

Liberty Fund--Online library of liberty

My favorites:

Political Sermons of the American Founding Era

American Political Writing During the Founding Era: 1760-1805, 2 vols

A break from the Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, Franklin and Federalist Papers quotes which are all over the internet.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I like to start looking for online books here:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

[parsifal]

I didn’t want to mention Hoffer’s occupation, but it was a heck of a good book. Trying to work my way thru Fragebogen. I think nobody in the universe has heard of it. Male Fantasies I and II by Thelweiter(?) are fascinating, and no they aren’t naughty sex books.

But Ayn Rand can stunt someone’s mental growth if they read her at too young an age. The simplistic theology has an appeal which is hard to see thru unless one has the perspective of age. I read it at too young an age but an older woman insisted I read it when I was 15.

parsy, who was corrupted early in life

[LucyT]

E-books Ping.

[IrishCatholic]

bookmark.

[Talisker]

The simplistic theology has an appeal which is hard to see thru unless one has the perspective of age.

Well, I guess I'm simple, then. It's okay, I've been called worse ; )

[Conan the Librarian]

Indeed you should go to your local public library and ask about Net-Library. It is much more than just public domain books.

Here in Georgia, it is available through GALILEO.

[Dinah Lord]

I love my new Kindle and while it wasn’t free ($4.47) - the first book I ordered from Amazon was so good I sat in the airport lounge reading it and missing my plane. (The last plane scheduled for Denver that day)

I sent in a suggestion that the developers add a small clock - so you could watch the time while you read. Haha!

The name of the book: Hostile Intent by Michael Walsh.

[philman_36]

Whatever you do, stay away from Ayn Rand. It will rot your brain.
I'm hoping that you forgot the /sarcasm.
At least read Atlas Shrugged.

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[parsifal]

No, I was being serious. I think Ayn Rand is what Kruschev meant when he said the Russians would bury us. They sent us that dang woman and oh....

I’m going to that link you put in.

parsy, who is trying not to think about you know who cause it makes his blood pressure go up

[philman_36]

A little too much effort has gone into demonizing Ayn Rand if you ask me.
Perhaps she was "on target" as well.

[Political Junkie Too]

I read all of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series (56 stories) via eBooks.

-PJ

[calex59]

I've had good luck here

Onlinebooks

They have books in text and some have audio also. The only thing is some books can only be had if you are in Australia or some other country, but I have read many classics, including many of the old Science fiction stories of the 40s, 50s.

[Stultis]

The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3300

The Federalist Papers
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1404
Audio Book
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22788

Various by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/d#a314

Writings of Abraham Lincoln
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3253

Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America (volumes 1 and 2)
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/815
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/816

[numberonepal]

http://librivox.org/ is great for Classics and History books.

[Swiss]

“It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis about a Democratic senator from Illinois who is elected President and makes the country a fascist dictatorship.

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html

[PubliusMM]

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