Using Libby by OverDrive for Digital Downloads of eBooks: Free eBooks
Where can I get free eBooks?
- RCLS Download Center (Overdrive)Borrow eBooks for up to 3 weeks through the library's Overdrive service. There's a great selection of new and popular fiction and nonfiction.
- Project GutenbergLooking for a classic? Project Gutenberg offers over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. These ebooks, now in the public domain, were previously published by bona fide publishers and digitized with the help of volunteers.
- Google BooksSearch the latest index of the world's books. Many books are available for you to download and read for free.
- eNYPL (New York Public Library's Overdrive service)As a New York State resident, you are eligible to receive a NYPL library card and access the NYPL's ebook collection. You can apply for a NYPL library card here.
- Baen BooksBaen Books, a publisher of science fiction and fantasy, is now making available — for free — a number of its titles in electronic format.
- The Online Books PageFrom the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, listing over 1 million free books on the Web.
- Open LibraryOpen Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published.