free online reading

[CarlottaVonUberwald]

any free online books i could read? all suggestions welcome

[Nesacat]

Don't know if this is your cuppa chai but j.d. waved it at me last night. It's a collection of short stories and thus far they have been a pleasure to read.
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au...t/abraham/fox/


There's also The King in Yellow if you care for something along the lines of Lovecraft
http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_kiy.htm


And finally here's something by Dunsany, which is an old favourite of mine and keeps me company at work.
http://www.sff.net/people/DoyleMacdonald/l_wonder.htm

[chrispenycate]

One from me: if you go to Baen.com , and go to the widow "free library", you'll find a list of about eighty different full length science fiction and fantasy books you can download, in a variety of different formats. I'm not suggesting you will enjoy them all; very few people would, but it's an excellent way of finding which ones you do. All of these are published books, equally available in dead tree version. (Oh, dear, don't I sound like a commercial)

[Snowdog]

The Baen Free Library, http://www.baen.com/library/

Edit: Damn, beaten to it!

Michael Coney's website has a couple of unpublished novels to download, which he completed before his death. They include a sequel to his novel Hello Summer, Goodbye, which some may have read. http://www.members.shaw.ca/mconey/

Then of course there is Project Gutenberg, but if you go there you may never come back! http://www.gutenberg.org/

[Kettricken]

I've been addicted to 'Gutenberg' for quite a while, Snowdog!

Also, books-on-line has some free books, but it's sometimes a little hard to navigate: http://67.118.51.201/bol/default.cfm

[Snowdog]

Originally Posted by Kettricken

I've been addicted to 'Gutenberg' for quite a while, Snowdog!

I got quite interested when I first found the site, but I've found that I just can't read e-books, at least not for pleasure.

I know that one day they will produce an e-book reader that will be almost as pleasurable to hold and read as a real book, at which time I will get more into it.

Although there are readers out there (some made to look like books) they're still at an early stage of development.

[Kettricken]

I could print pages for free at my school... so I copied and pasted the text, put it in a readable lay-out, push the print-button and: enjoy the reading!

[murphy]

Kelley Armstrong has online stories about nice werewolves and witches in a modern day setting. Pretty good stories too.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Not books but short fiction:

http://www.eternalnight.co.uk/fiction/fiction2001.html

And if you like older books (as in old enough to be in the public domain), here is one of my favorite places since Blackmask disappeared into the ether:

http://www.arthursclassicnovels.com/

[steve12553]

Last Saturday night when we lost power at 9:30 my battery powered, back-lit Palm pilot came to the rescue as I read part of a book from: http://manybooks.net/.
Free stuff. Mostly pretty old. Many classics. Many genre. Definitely worth a look. Also:
http://axiomsedge-scifi.com/axioms_edge_free_eBooks.htm.
Another one I use is:
http://www.memoware.com/mw.cgi/mw.cgi?screen=main

[Nesacat]

Originally Posted by Snowdog

Then of course there is Project Gutenberg, but if you go there you may never come back! http://www.gutenberg.org/

Tell me about it ... the first time I found it I stayed there and forgot to eat for three days. It's terribly addictive but a wonderful resource.

[Snowdog]

I think this thread might be worth stickying, mods. Good links here.

[Rane Longfox]

I know that Charles Stross put his novel Accelerando online for free downloading. If you like sci-fi, you should check it out. Unfortunately, I have no idea what the link is

[Rosemary]

Originally Posted by chrispenycate

One from me: if you go to Baen.com , and go to the widow "free library", you'll find a list of about eighty different full length science fiction and fantasy books you can download, in a variety of different formats. I'm not suggesting you will enjoy them all; very few people would, but it's an excellent way of finding which ones you do. All of these are published books, equally available in dead tree version. (Oh, dear, don't I sound like a commercial)

Brilliant site there Chris...some of my favourite authors as well. Will definately be bookmarking that site

AND no, you don't sound like a commercial

[jinloac]

Here are a few directory sites that I found over the past two weeks that list some free eBooks:

Hunts eBook Directory - rkphunt.com/dir
eBooks on the Web index - bowindex.com
eBook Impressions - ebookimpressions.com
Free onLine Novels - free-online-novels.com