Google Offers Free Books Online!
By DarlingGirl
@DarlingGirl (745)
United States
December 18, 2010 12:55pm CST
I couldn't believe it until I went and looked for myself: there are hundreds of books for free offered on Google as e-books. They are totally downloadable (they appear in just a minute) and are transferrable to whatever device (Kindle? Mobile Phone?) that you might read on. I'm starting out with "Walden" by Thoreau, I'll segue to "Grimm's Fairytales", and then after that I'll try the "OZ" books by Baum - all three or four that are listed. There's something for everyone there: "Man in The Iron Mask", most of the Sherlock Holmes stories and a couple of the novels, light-hearted stories like "Tom Sawyer", and darker stuff like "War and Peace".
There is also a section on hot topics, like "What to Expect When You're Expecting" and multiple stories centering around the fairytale (and the actual fairy tale, too) of the "Black Swan". Check out household repair books, electronics magazines, and more!
Here is the webpage:
http://books.google.com/
What will you read for free? Or download for someone as a gift?
4 responses
@babytaffster (2232)
• Chatsworth, California
18 Dec 10
Are you sure it's the full book? Because I know they will give you quite a few pages, but I'm not sure it's the whole thing.
@headhunter525 (3548)
• India
18 Dec 10
It's not the full book, at least with regards to some of the books I have checked out. They give only those pages allowed to be put up by publishers or author. But it's helpful as there are quite a number of pages being put up.
@DarlingGirl (745)
• United States
18 Dec 10
Huh! I'm reading "Walden", and it's the full book, for sure. There is an offering for download of the entire book. Perhaps that's only the case with the "Classics books", and not the "popular" ones. Do let me know which books you've checked, so we can let other know which ones won't fully download. Thanks, Headhunter525!
@DarlingGirl (745)
• United States
18 Dec 10
AH! Pardon. Only books that are "PUBLIC DOMAIN" are in full. That means that the copyright wore out and now they are free for the reading online. Many classics are. Sorry about the popular titles...you might have to research to see which are public domain and which are not - I found this info on the very...last...page of "Walden". lol
@ljlisas (76)
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
Thanks for sharing the site!
I am collecting ebooks. I just started a month ago. My brother is usually the one who downloads them for me. I have an ebook manager installed on my laptop. It's called calibre.
Personally, i still love real books that i can hold and flip and sometimes sniff the pages. hahahah.
But ebooks are nice too coz they don't take up real space and they dont' cost you anything.
anyways, thanks again!
@DarlingGirl (745)
• United States
19 Dec 10
Yep, that's why I like them too! No space, it's there when you want it, etc., etc.
Anytime I find gold like this I'll post it!
@glamgirldoll (313)
• Philippines
19 Dec 10
Ofcourse Im going to read it for free! Its very expensive to buy books now adays and for a student like me, I can really benefit on it. And I cant find some of my books in the bookstore thats why I wanted to read for free.
