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We've covered music extensively, and have compiled a pretty good list on movies, videos and tv shows...so here are some great resources on how to get free books online:

Lifehacker's Guide To The Top 10 Free Resources For Books Online

Here are some more:

www.bookyards.com/

www.librarything.com/

www.ebookshare.net/

www.ebooksclub.org/

www.digitalbookindex. org/search001a.htm

www.bookshub.org/

www.bartleby.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_digital_library_projects

arthurwendover.com/

www.textfiles.com/

www.ibiblio.org/

netlibrary.com/

www.memoware.com/

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The Open Internet Project, the folks who brought you the Wayback Machine, have a new project - The Open Library, and plan to build a comprehensive online library of books (for free).

A tip of the hat to Lifehacker for the tip :thumbsup:

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EduChoices Top 25 Resources For Free Online Books

1. The Online Books Page

2. Project Gutenberg

3. Questia

4. Classic Book Library

5. FullBooks.com

6. Internet Public Library

7. Classic Reader

8. Authorama

9. Bored.com

10. Read Print

11. The Literature Network

12. LibriVox

13. Bartleby

14. Classic Bookshelf

15. ReadBooksOnline.net

16 Chest of Books

17. PublicLiterature.org

18. Biblomania

19. International Children's Digital Library

20. Public Bookshelf

21. Perseus Digital Library

22. DailyLit

23. Fiction.us

24. Page By Page Books

25. Lookybook

Check out the resources at EduChoices

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On librarything how do you read the books?

I can only 'add them to library'

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On librarything how do you read the books?

I can only 'add them to library'

That's a good question. I think ... you probably swap them or get the download from the other members.

What is LibraryThing?

LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. You can access your catalog from anywhere—even on your mobile phone. Because everyone catalogs together, LibraryThing also connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.

What software does it require?

None. If you can read this, you can use LibraryThing.

What does it cost?

A free account allows you to catalog up to 200 books. A paid account allows you to catalog any number of books. Paid personal accounts cost $10 for a year or $25 for a lifetime. (See here for organizational accounts.) I conservatively predict the revenue will enable me to recline all day on an enormous pile of gold.

What information do I need to give up?

None. Setting up an account requires only a user name and a password. You can also edit your profile to make yours a "private" account. With a private account, nobody else can see what books you have.

What else does LibraryThing do?

LibraryThing is a full-powered cataloging application, searching the Library of Congress, all five national Amazon sites, and more than 80 world libraries. You can edit your information, search and sort it, "tag" books with your own subjects, or use the Library of Congress and Dewey systems to organize your collection.

If you want it, LibraryThing is also an amazing social space, often described as "MySpace for books" or "Facebook for books." You can check out other people's libraries, see who has the most similar library to yours, swap reading suggestions and so forth. LibraryThing also makes book recommendations based on the collective intelligence of the other libraries.

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