SITES WHERE YOU CAN READ BOOKS ONLINE
1. PROJECT GUTENBERG
• Project Gutenberg is a mother of all eBooks sites. It started in 1971, when a first eBook ever was created, “Declaration of Independence of the United States of America”. • Many sites that offer free eBooks from public domain use the titles originally uploaded to Project Gutenberg. • Currently, there are about 45,000 public domain books in the catalog. If you’re
2. INTERNET ARCHIVE
• Internet Archive, founded in 1996, is a non-profit organisation offering free access to digital or digitized content: books, images, videos, or audio files. • The catalog includes well over 6,000,000 fully accessible public domain ebooks and other text files. The section can be reached at this link: archive.org/details/texts. • Use the search box in the top left corner to find the book. By default, the list of results will be limited only to texts. You can sort the results by relevance, rating,
3. OPEN LIBRARY
• Library. The site is actually Internet Archive’s separate project, more focused on collecting library records. • It’s goal is to create one web page for every book ever published. On a page of a single book you’ll find all its documented editions. • The site claims to have 6 million authors and 20 million books. You can search
4. GOOGLE BOOKS
• A huge collection of books that Google scanned and turned into viewable files is now available on Google. • The homepage of Google Books is actually a search box. More importantly, Google will prompt you to check out Google Play – their online ebookstore. • To stay in the Google Books project, use the search box on the left side, as shown
5. SMASHWORDS
• It’s the biggest and most advanced site with eBooks from independent authors and publishers. There are currently around 300,000 from over 100,000 authors. • Many Smash words books are being sold in big eBook stores, including Barnes & Noble, or Kobo. • All these bookstores offer an option to send a sample file to a connected device or application, but options to read books online are limited to selected titles