eReader and Free eBooks Websites

Free eBooks Websites

Listed below are sites that offer free digital materials for mobile devices. Some require registation or the creation of accounts to use the site. Other requirements may include: email addresses, user names, and/or passwords.

BookBub
"BookBub sends you one daily email with free and bargain books for Kindle, Nook, and other retailers. Mystery, romance, fantasy and more. Sign up for free today!"

Free-eBooks.net
"Enjoy unlimited reading here at Free-eBooks.net. Welcome! Discover all-new, rising authors. Independent writers offer both entertaining fiction/romance for your enjoyment and non-fiction to help you find info from self-help to biz growth. Simply Login or Register now to get started."

ManyBooks.net
"Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you'll find something interesting in the special collections. There are more than 29,000 eBooks available for Kindle, Nook, iPad and most other eReaders, and they're all free! If you still can't decide what to read you might want to browse through some covers to see what strikes your fancy. Or try the Recent Additions to the library, with genre filter."

Project Gutenberg.org
"Project Gutenberg offers over 40,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online. We carry high quality ebooks: All our ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. We digitized and diligently proofread them with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required."

Free Tech eBooks

www.freecomputerbooks.com
"Free Computer Books, Free Mathematics Books, Directory of online free computer, programming, engineering, mathematics, technical books, ebooks, lecture and notes."

www.freetechbooks.com
"This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes."

About eReaders

Types of E-Books from Consumer Reports
These devices, including Amazon Kindles, Sony Readers, and Barnes & Noble Nooks, focus primarily on displaying e-books and are all we include in our Ratings. Many also offer newspaper and magazine subscriptions as secondary capabilities that are compromised somewhat by their monochromatic screens. Many have black-and-white E Ink screens, and so offer decent or better type and long battery life, while others have LCD screens, with shorter battery life and less crisp type but the ability to reproduce color.

Understanding the Types of Portable eBook Readers Available
Portable eBook readers aren't the most popular digital media devices - yet. They are intended for a specific audience where convenience is desired for reading books, newspapers and magazines.

What Is an EBook Reader, and How Does It Work?
"What is an eBook reader and how does it work? This is the first in a week-long series of articles on eBook readers, from Amazon's Kindle to newer models like Barnes and Noble's "Nook". We'll be looking at each device in detail and talking about how various types of eBook readers work."