Hi All,I'm sure that many of you know that the library has e-books. Users can download e-books onto their Ipod, Ipad, Sony Reader, Android device, Nook's, Kindle's and other e-readers.
Just visit the library website by clicking on this link and scrolling down to the section of the page that says 'Download an E-book or Audiobook'. Click here to go directly to the link though.
Farmingdale PL patrons can download books on a wide variety of topics - both fiction and non-fiction in a wide variety of formats from Overdrive. Just remember that you'll need your Farmingdale library card to download e-books and audiobooks.
Now - onto to the main part of this post. Did you ever hear about Project Gutenberg? Well, if not, Project Gutenberg is an online archive of books and e-books that users can take out and read - for free! Click here to go to the Project Gutenberg site. (http://www.gutenberg.org) FYI, Project Gutenberg has over 33,000 free e-books to read on virtually all devices.
Another website where readers can get their fill of e-books is on Free-ebooks.net. Click on this link to go to the site. The site also has e-book resources and information on ebook authors.
Finally, users can click on this link from Manybooks.net to get yet more e-books. Click here to go to the Manybooks site. http://manybooks.net Manybooks has over 29,000 e-books available for Kindle, Nook, Ipad and most other eReaders. And of course, they are free!
Other free e-book sites include:
UPenn Digital Library at http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books
Kokobooks.com at http://www.kokobooks.com
Archive.org at http://www.archive.org/details/texts
Google Books at http://books.google.com/ebooks
Enjoy the books!
Stu
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