And there currently isn't any way to download free
public domain ebooks from Google or library ebooks through OverDrive; you have to use your computer to download these and then transfer them over with the USB cable.
The key point is that the availability of a free,
manipulable public domain ebook library is what made LibriVox possible along with some other underlying technologies.
While there are plenty of places where you can download free and accurately -
transcribed public domain ebooks, we feel the quality of those ebooks can often be greatly improved.
Furthermore, although the Kindle can also be loaded with over two million free ebooks the Internet Archive and Open
Library public domain eBook collections, Amazon have chosen not to include these in its titles count.
Barnes and Noble has twenty of their classic ebooks available for free that normally cost $ 3.99 each (these aren't run - of - the -
mill public domain ebooks; these are nicely formatted and include introductions, endnotes, footnotes, notes about the author, etc).
Luckily the PocketBook 360 supports Adobe DRM so you can get ebooks and other digital content from a wide range of ebook stores, as well as borrow ebooks from libraries and
get public domain ebooks from free ebook websites.
Standard Ebooks is a volunteer driven, not - for - profit project that produces new editions
of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, and free.
10 million
public domain eBooks free on the Net... that's 40 % of them.
Books Should be Free —
Public domain ebooks and audiobooks abound on this site.
The project is a cooperative effort of various organizations and programs focused on collecting and making available open source and
public domain eBooks (Alphabetical list of eDocument collections.)
Good news for ebook readers in the UK, Google announced yesterday that they've expanded their ebook store to the United Kingdom, making available several hundred thousand ebooks from major UK publishers like Random House, Hachette, and Penguin, not to mention Google's two million free
public domain ebooks.
Google's two million
public domain ebooks are included too, or course.
The Standard Ebooks project is a volunteer driven, not - for - profit effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free
public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.
The Standard Ebooks project differs from those etext projects in that we aim to make free
public domain ebooks that are carefully typeset, cleaned of ancient and irrelevant ephemera, take full advantage of modern ereading technology, are formatted according to a detailed style guide, and that are each held to a standard of quality and internal consistency.
PG offers 45,000
public domain ebooks, yet few libraries currently use this collection to serve their communities.
They publish original ebooks by new authors, and have a wide selection of free
public domain ebooks and original titles.
The most directly relevant project to ebook access and libraries may be GITenberg, which intends to help libraries use and maintain Project Gutenberg's (PG) 45,000
public domain ebooks to serve their communities — with GitHub, a code - sharing and hosting platform.
It also has Google Books built - in, but this is referring to Google's free
public domain ebooks, not their entire ebook store, which can be visited with the web browser instead.
Amazon has just implemented a new feature that assigns new ASIN numbers to thousands of
public domain ebooks.
The only option is
public domain ebooks and ebooks sold from websites that don't use DRM (like Smashwords, for instance).
The HSN one comes with 100 free
public domain ebooks.
The only difference is HSN has payment plan options and a 2 GB micro SD card is included with purchase, plus 100 free
public domain ebooks are pre-loaded.
Yesterday I found myself over at the Project Gutenberg website and I came across something that I was not expecting to find on one of the oldest and most well - respected distributors of free
public domain ebooks.
From Google Books comes a nice selection of
public domain ebooks mostly in the classical literature genre, but you can also search Google Books or using the main Google search engine to find all manner of public domain ebooks.
Since the PocketBook 602 supports Adobe DRM you can get ebooks and other digital content from a wide range of ebook stores, as well as borrow ebooks from libraries and get
public domain ebooks from free ebook websites (the 602 comes pre-installed with about 1000 public domain ebooks in several languages).