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    The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online

    Read Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" for Free

    Disappeared Reappears In Your Ears For Free

    Andre Norton's Time Traders Series Free Online
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    Image of StephenK StephenK
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    Also, for free audiobooks check out :

    www.podiobooks.com

    They have some awesome stuff. I highly recommend the work of Scott Sigler, J.C Hutchins and Nathan Lowell :D

    It's a really great site. Especially if, for whatever reason, you like your books in audio format (visual impairment, etc).
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    11/20/09

    @StephenK: Thanks. I am always looking for free audiobooks.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    Added Baen Free Library - thanks for the suggestions!
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    Image of PlaidNinja PlaidNinja
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    Also try www.swaptree.com and www.bookcrossing.com
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    Image of cmatzner cmatzner
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    your forgot the Baen Books Free library, [www.baen.com]
    Tons of books, all in multiple formats.
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    Image of Christopher Price Christopher Price
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    You forgot the awesome www.dailylit.com!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    The Da Vinci Code? I think that's a box of firewood.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/20/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: it's got dune and the two towers in it though... oh it's just dune: house atreides. yeah, go ahead and burn it.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    @tetracycloide: That's what I was thinking... I'll pick out The Two Towers first. House Atreides will make a good starter.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/20/09

    @crashedpc - Haifisch: the second novel in a three part series? why pick it out when you'll need something decent to tempure the stench of all that burning crap.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    11/20/09

    @tetracycloide: Good point. *pours gasoline*
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    Image of DraconisXC DraconisXC
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    Thanks so much for the resources. Another I would like to share that I use personally is [www.truly-free.org]

    The books are usually best viewed in either Word or notepad 2, and there is a limit of 5 books per month that are able to be borrowed (tracked by IP). It has more than just science-fiction, though I primarily use it to read Asimov, King, and Orson Scott Card novels. Take a look! And respect the downloading terms: 5 per month, delete them when you're done. You're not buying or stealing, you're borrowing from a library.

    (Check out the forum community too!)
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    Image of theCrippleCricket theCrippleCricket
    11/20/09

    In reply to The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online
    Thank you!

    Also, I got a kindle from my grams last Christmas, and amazon.com does randomly have free kindle books to download, but I'm not sure they're an option without a kindle. And some libraries now have online books you can 'check out' on your computer, I know my dinky town library does, so I'm imagining other towns with populations over 8k do too if you look hard enough.
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    Image of Chuck Chuck
    11/20/09

    @theCrippleCricket: Good call -- amazingly enough, there are often some very good freebies on the "Kindle Best Seller's List"

    I've discovered a couple three new authors that I really like that way, and have gone on to actually pay money for some of their other stuff (which I suspect is entirely the point behind the free ones.)
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    Image of theCrippleCricket theCrippleCricket
    11/20/09

    @Chuck: Me too! Although the downfall of my free kindlebook obsession is this weird penchant for tacky romance novels. I dunno what's happening to me, I tried to say it was just because I'm poor and they were free, but then I BOUGHT the sequel to this one about a victorian lady and her strapping, brooding detective lover and I realized I have a problem. A burning, corset-ripping, undulating problem...
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    Image of bookwench bookwench
    08/06/09

    In reply to Read Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" for Free
    There's a ton of free short science fiction on the Project Gutenberg site - someone is sorting through the short stories form the early days to see which ones have expired copyright and which ones haven't, so they can post the former. Some awesome stuff there.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/06/09

    In reply to Read Scott Westerfeld's "Uglies" for Free
    Neat promotion. I wish I could get the actual paper version for free.
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