eBooks

In addition to the great collection of downloadable eBooks provided by the NH State Library through Overdrive, there are many other excellent resources for free electronic reading material. The catch is that most free eBooks have to be in the public domain, i.e. their copyright has to have expired. Fortunately, this includes a lot of books, many of them excellent classics. Here is a sampling of sites that offer free downloads of eBooks:

Project Gutenberg was the first on the scene with free electronic books.

ManyBooks has an interesting assortment of eBooks.

The Internet Archive is an excellent source of historical texts.

Amazon has some free Kindle titles available, though I think there is a reason that these titles are free.

Freekindlebooks offers Kindle compatible classics.

All of these sites will allow you to download to various reading devices. You will need to figure out what software to use on your particular device. Smartphones seem to like either Mobipocket or one of the Kindle mobile apps (scroll down to the middle of the page).

If you are looking for new titles and best-sellers for which you will pay $0, then, of course, our free offerings through Overdrive is still the best way to go.