ebook sites

[StefC]

Does anyone else use Adobe Digital Editions to read ebooks without having to buy a Kindle?

I was just sent a link to a free Mrs Beeton Kindle book and was a little upset cos I don't have a Kindle.

Well I got a bit upset and then realised that most of these books are out of copyright and published by someone, not Amazon. So I followed the link to Gutenberg site. It doesn't do pdf files but I didn't want to give up.

A bit of reading later and I read about the Digital Edition software. It is free and takes about 1 minute to sign up to.

I now have 7 ebooks on my PC - all the old stuff you dream of finding copies of in a junk shop.

Anyhoo - just in case anyone else is interested I thought start a thread and see if anyone else has found any free ebook sites that have some good stuff on them.

I will happily collate the sites if anyone else is interested. It would be fun if we could add enough to get the thread made sticky ;)

Free sites
http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/ which should read all of those ebooks that end in .epub

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=needlework the gutenberg page with needlework on it, there is lots more to look at!

[HappySheep]

I use Digital Editions as I have an ereader that isn't a Kindle (a Bookbox). I can download the usual free stuff from a variety of sites, but I also joined a few libraries up and down the country to use their free ebooks. The best one is Manchester.

Judith

[StefC]

I didn't know you could do that Judith! I shall have an explore!

[iBeads]

Great suggestion, I'll take a look at the links you posted later when I have a minute.