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The Online Books Page This site is a great source of free e-books. Everything there is in the public domain, so it's free and legal to download or read online. I use it at work when teachers want class sets of classic novels that I don't have enough of.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
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Another great place to get free books downloaded is the Project Gutenberg site. Again, all books are in the public domain.
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EBook Daily lets you know about books that are temporarily marked down as free on Amazon.com. There are three books per day per genre; genres include, inter alia, mysteries, science fiction, and biographies. Because the books are on Amazon's site, you would need to have either a Kindle or a Kindle app. Joy, Lynn
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Originally posted by Lynn S. M.: EBook Daily lets you know about books that are temporarily marked down as free on Amazon.com. There are three books per day per genre; genres include, inter alia, mysteries, science fiction, and biographies.
Because the books are on Amazon's site, you would need to have either a Kindle or a Kindle app.
Joy,
Lynn That's awesome! And if you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app to your computer.
"Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
"How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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Thanks for sharing these! I knew about PG but not the others. Looks like I need to recharge my Kindle.  LabRat 
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Manybooks.net is pretty good too, it's mostly an aggregator site with links to Gutenberg and other copyright-expired sources, but it's got some nice sorting features for finding e.g. science fiction rather than just looking by author name.
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*grumble* Take two. Was told my post had been submitted but no sign of it. :P Okay, where was I? Oh, yeah...my latest EBook Daily email came with a link to BookBub, which is another great little resource. Large list of categories to choose. Not all of the books are free, but those which aren't are still cheap at around £1 and many are by bestselling authors. Okay, now discovered how to put a hotlink in my post, so: BookBub Thanks again for the EBook Daily link, Lynn. Getting those emails is a highlight of my day! One thing non-Americans should be aware of when using Ebook Daily. Often, when I click on a free book and am redirected to Amazon UK, I find the book isn't free there. It's not a huge issue, but just remember to doublecheck before you click to download, do you don't accidentally end up paying for your 'free' book. LabRat
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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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I get enewsletters from the following: Book Sends Ereader News Today Free Kindle Ebooks (longest list, WAY more uncurated on their website, and they have a UK option) Freebook Sifter (just discovered this about 10 seconds ago, haven't checked it out) Like Labby said, you have to make sure the book is free in your country. Watch for that!! Cheers...
"It's the mythology of a sun god who wished he was a man because he saw something so great in us. It's the story of a hero who could move whole worlds and see through stars and hear a whisper on the other side of the planet... ...and who fell in love with a storyteller." - ashmaht (x)
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Thanks, Kismett! I can't get enough of these sites. Off to check these out now! LabRat
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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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Thanks, Kismett! I can't get enough of these sites. Off to check these out now! LabRat Thanks to the free books lists, I have about 10K Kindle books in my Amazon cloud. Cookbooks galore!! Also a disturbing number of trashy romances.... 
"It's the mythology of a sun god who wished he was a man because he saw something so great in us. It's the story of a hero who could move whole worlds and see through stars and hear a whisper on the other side of the planet... ...and who fell in love with a storyteller." - ashmaht (x)
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LOL - yes. I have a very boring, lengthy hospital appointment today and my Kindle full of interesting new additions is definitely coming with me! Plenty to choose from - shouldn't get bored. LabRat
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Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly.
Aramis: Yes, sorry.
Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
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The Free Book Sifter lists all the free books on Amazon by genre and subgenre. 
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Thanks soooo much for these links...my Kindle and I are happy and have downloaded loads of books! Can't wait to start reading
Lois Lane: [to Clark] All right, maybe, somewhere very deep inside me is some eensy-weensy, microcosmic - although highly unlikely - possibility that I feel some sort of unmotivated, completely unrealistic attraction to you.
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