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50 best websites to download eBOOKs FREE

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 03:35:21 +0000

The world is becoming more and more digitized and mobile, it has now become easy for us to carry a lot of information with us which can be browsed during free time. Ebooks are a favourite source of consuming information in digital form. Though ebooks need to be generally bought, there are many places from where a variety of ebooks can be downloaded. We are listing here 50 great websites which we feel are the best places to download free ebooks from the net.
1. Download Any stuff : Once again comes on the top as a favourite because searching ebooks is very easy here. Just search for any name/author (alongwith word ‘ebook’) and get the links to download pages. To get better results,click on the category ‘eBooks’ on the results page. You may also find some audio books/mp3 etc on that topic during the search.
2.Gutenberg: has over 27000 free ebooks to be downloaded from their online catalogue.
3.Arvix : Download over 500,000 e-books in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics from the Cornell University Library.
4.Internet Archive: A huge(possibly the largest) collection of open source etexts on the net. Just make a quick search and reach the description page and on the left panel get the links to download the ebook in various formats.
5. Scribd :Scribd has a huge database of files uploaded by members. A large number of them are ebooks. Just search for “x-y-z ebook” and   check out the results and download.
6. Online books page :The Online Books Page was founded, and is edited,   by John Mark Ockerbloom, He is a digital library planner and researcher   at the University of Pennsylvania.The site is maintained by the University and has a very large database of free ebooks which you can read online also.
7.Ebookhood: Basically the site allows you to convert text and webpages to formats readable on the iPod and other reader devices, share the ebooks and reviews with other readers in the neighborhood.The files uploaded by members are downloadable and hence a good collection of free ebooks is generated.
8.Hotfilms : don’t be mislead by the name. There is a good collection of ebooks also on this site in the ebooks section.
9.GetfreeEbooks: This site provides free and legal ebooks with some books   available for download immediately and some are linked to other sites.
10.Franklin Free Library: One of the largest online electronic publishers, they have a good collection of free ebooks as well. Just follow the link given. Downloads are quite easy from the link given against each title.
11.Freebookspot: Have ebooks on varied topics and the links to download the same are provided at the bottom of the page. These links and descriptions are also uploaded by the members on the site.
12.Booksshouldbefree:Taking cue from their own name, they are offering free downloads of books in Text and Mp3 formats(audiobooks).
13.AcrobatPlanet: As the name suggests, plenty of Pdf files for download available here for free. Browsing is easy
14. Free online Novels rovides download links to a collection of novels.
15.Filebook:They have shared files links to over 2000 ebooks for download.
16.ebooksPdf :Free Online Library- contains Ebooks, primarily in PDF format .
17.Fullbooks: A collection of (thousands –they claim) ebooks which can be read online . However, since the books are divided in a few pages, the individual pages/chapters can be downloaded.
18.Globusz: It is a e-book publishing house and tries to promote the works of lesser known authors.    Most of the works are available for free download.
19.Memoware: MemoWare has a collection of thousands of documents (databases, literature, maps, technical references, lists, etc.) formatted to be easily added to PalmOS device, Pocket PC, Windows CE, EPOC, Symbian or other handheld device.99% of documents are free and some are shareware for which you have to register after downloading as Zip.
20.Diesel ebooks:Though Diesel Ebooks is an online retailer of books, it has a free download section where a number of titles are available for free . Follow the link.
21.Manybooks:Search for thousands of ebooks on this site and download .The option to download in multiple formats increases the usefulness of the site.
22.MyEnbook:They provide downloads of ebooks, magazines, newspapers, reports, documents, essays etc.
23.Harckerz: Hundreds of free books related to hacking and other computer related topics. Just click on the links of the books and download.
24.Mobipocket:Search for over 11000 free ebooks on topics ranging from literature(max no.) ,economics ,history etc from Mobipocket (Amazon.com)
25.Free tech Books :This site lists a large number of technology books and provides links to other webpages which have the download links of those books. A good collection.
26.Computer books :A collection of free ebooks on computers related topics.
27.Filmsdown: Another site which may not look like a likely place to find ebooks. But their ebooks section has lot of cool ebooks with their download links.
28.Ebook Space: another cool ebook site which details mainly Technology related books and provides their links on shared files.
29.Freeinsociety: They have an ebooks section which can be searched for a number of free ebooks (mainly pdf) under 16 categories.
30.Pdf Search Engine:Necessarily it is a search engine which searches PDF files. Just enter search term and search to find if there are any pdf files for that term.
31.eBook3000 :They provide details of ebooks and links to their location in shared files servers.
32.Free-eBooks:This site has a good collection of free ebooks. But you need to register to download the same.
33.2020ok.com :Has hundreds of categories under which ebooks are listed with their links to their download pages on other sites.
34. Onlinebooks4free :This site has listed ebooks under about 20 categories and provides links to their downloads. However, beware of many broken links that you will find.
35. Authorama : Rather than exactly providing download, it lets you read their ebooks online . The chapterwise browsing is easy and each chapter can be downloaded separately to get complete ebook.
36. University of Adelaide library :The university of Adelaide has a large collection of free ebooks online. Just browse by Author or Title the classic works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, and History.
37.e-Books Directory :E-Books Directory is a free web resource which contains links to free downloadable e-books, technical papers, documents, as well as user contributed content, articles, reviews and comments.They have about 1200 ebooks .
38. Networkgood :An ebooks blog which posts links to download ebooks regularly.
39. eBooks Canada :Has a small collection of ebooks on about 20 topics. However, the data does not seem to be updated very regularly. Still the ebooks are worth checking.
40.Witguides: Another good site with range of titles on Computers, Health, Business,Self Improvement, Cooking and more. They claim to have their files fully checked for viruses.
41.Freebooks: The site has listed a good collection of ebooks with links to the webpages where download links are there. Some of these links were found broken.
42.TechbooksforFree :Mainly links to Techbooks downloads.
43.Feedbooks: It provides an easy way to find, publish and download e-books in a large number of formats.
44.Audiobooksforfree: Mp3,iPod,DVD audiobooks on adventure, detectives, horrors, classics, children, philosophy etc. Listen to the book sample and download in different bit rates.
45.Planetebook: Focusing on Classics, this site provides downloads for the same in Pdf format.
46.PdfOO :Register free and search for ebooks and download.
47.Divine Life Society :Offers free books on Yoga,Religion and Philosphy.
48.ByGosh :Free illustrated kids stories,poems,novels etc . Can be read online or downloaded as individual chapters.
49.BooksinMyPhone:This site formats and packages books so that you can read them on a java enabled phone. Search books by Author,Titles,’All time classics’ or by tags.
50.Sharewarefreebooks: In about 60 categories, this site has a cool collection of over 1300 ebooks which can be downloaded .
Though there are many a number of other sites that could be listed, pl do let me know in comments if I have missed any good sites in the list.

Free website creating tools on the net

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:25:43 +0000

There are a number of services on the net which provide free website creation and hosting facilities. Here is a summary on the best of them. Each of these services is good at its own place and is useful for different set of users having different requirements.

Wetpaint: More than a website, Wetpaint provides enables users to create a social network around a topic. Wetpaint combines the best aspects of wikis, blogs, forums and social networks so anyone can click and type on the web.Thus, if you are looking to create a site around a topic -say ‘Cricket’ – and want your friends (who are also interested in this topic) to contribute and together create a collaborative site – then Wetpaint is the place to go to. The MS-Word-like editing removes the substantial learning curve from contributing to a wiki.
Create your site with either your own domain name or a sub-domain provided by Wetpaint.

Weebly-.Weebly is aimed towards the casual internet users who want a easy to put up and no hassle Web Site with free hosting. Weebly provide AJAX-based dragging and dropping of elements on a page eg Maps,Pictures,Text in a WYSIWYG fashion. You can use these page elements or even upload your HTML code. It also provides a blogging option from the navigation bar. You can even download your site in a zip file and thus take the custody of your content.

Jimdo – It’s like a cross between Adobe’s Dreamweaver and a wiki tool.You can use Jimdo to easily and quickly create a personal website including photos, text, a guestbook,RSS feeds, and YouTube videos.The most unique feature of Jimdo is that it enables users to ‘Copy’ templates from other sites. You can just copy the HTML of a site and create your own site with a similar template using some tools on the site .Though its not a very good idea to copy others’ design , this is a unique facility provided by Jimdo.

Office live : If you are looking to create a website with a number of templates ,color themes, forms, newsletter options etc , then Office Live Hosting from Mircrosoft is a good place to go. The site is easy to create and templates are quite suitable to give a business look. A free domain for one year (they charge $14.95 from the next year) is an attraction for people who dislike sub-domains and want to give a business touch to their sites. Integration with Office documents means that you can upload them to the website. However, for Geeks and those who want to customize their sites, it does not offer much.

Awardspace: Want just a dependable and Free hosting options where you can upload your files and customize your site, then use Awardspace hosting . With a lnumber of webhosting features of paid hosting ,this is about the best bannerless free web hosting service. It allows users to use their own domain names (upto 2) and has a generous 5 GB monthly web site traffic allowance, and 200 Megabytes of storage space. However, the file upload size of 500kb at a time is a limiting for some users.

Sythasite : Synthasite is more of a site creation toolkit than the others, which allows you to get your content out. AJAX-based webpage editor with drag and drop functionality makes things easier for people light on programming skills. This site has also integrated with Picnik – thus enabling easy editing of images that you upload.

Freewebs: Freewebs is perhaps one of the most used free website creation service .They do claim that over 20 million sites have been created on their servers.They provide over 300 templates ,an easy WYSIWYG editor and facility to add blogs and forums to your site. Widget boxes, chatrooms and other usual features are present. A domain can be added at $ 19.95/year. However, of late Freewebs users have been finding the service very slow and unresponsive at times .

Wix is a flash based website and widget creation tool. It allows users to decorate their sites with a variety of content through the flash based widgets. The best part is that these widgets can be shared across the web by the users and would be particularly useful for Orkut and Myspace users.

And if you are looking to create a Free forum on any topic, then Invision Forums may be the right place to go.
Here is a chart comparing the features of all the above free website creation services. The links to the site,their demos and sample sites are also given :

Name	Link to	Sample Site	Templates	Forced Ads	Userads (eg adsense)	User Domain allowed?	Other features
Wetpaint	Tour	Link	Minor alterations allowed	No	No	No	Discussion threads,Build community,Site stats etc
Weebly	Demo	Link	Customizable HTML	No	Yes	Yes	100mb storage,Drag & drop, Download site etc
Jimdo	Tour	Link	Customizable	Yes	No	No	500mb storage,number of widgets,Copy templates etc
Office Live	Demo	Link	Fixed	No	No	Free domain	500mb storage,web forms,email newsletters etc
Awardspace	Details	Link	Use own templates	No	Yes	Yes	200mb,MySql,FTP,CGI,PHP, SSI,Perl,Frontpage extensions
Sythasite	Demo	Link	Customizable	No	Yes	Yes	Image editing with Picnik,
Freewebs	Tour	Link	CSS editing	Yes	Yes	Yes	40mb,20pages,Photocropping thru Picnik,Widget box
Wix	FAQ	Link	Customizable	No	No	No	Great flash widgets,Content distribution on the web