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eBooks and Mobile Options: Free eBooks
eBooks from the Public Library
Public library systems provide access to eBooks through Overdrive and other eBook/Audiobook choices. Check your local library for more information.
Free Audiobooks
There are several sites that offer free audiobooks.
- LibriVoxFree audiobooks from the public domain.
- Lit2GoLit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems.
- PodiobooksFree serialized audio book versions.
- Loyal BooksPublic domain audio and ebooks.
Free eBook Sites
The web has many sites devoted to free eBooks. Generally these are books that are out of copyright and in the public domain.
- Google BooksPreviews and full-text of books. Full-text books are books that are out of copyright, or books for which Google received permission from the publisher to reproduce.
- HathiTrustHathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries. The Digital Library is a repository providing access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
- Project GutenbergProject Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
- BibliomaniaFree Online Literature with more than 2000 classic texts, literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books.
- Digital Public Library of AmericaThe Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world.
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Calibre Software
EBooks without Adobe DRM (or other DRM) can be converted to different file formats. One of the ways you can do this sort of conversion is using a piece of free software called Calibre.
Once you have added ebooks to Calibre, you can convert EPUB to MOBI, PDF to EPUB, PDF to MOBI, and more. Converting PDF to EPUB or MOBI is useful if you want the text to be resizeable and therefore more readable on a mobile device. However, the PDF must have the text embedded in it for the conversion to work. An easy way to test if the text is in the PDF is to try to copy and paste some of the text in the PDF. If you can grab the text, it's embedded in the file and the conversion will work.
You will lose any graphs, charts, or other images the PDF had, however, so think about what information you want to keep in the ebook.
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