15 Sites for Free Online Books

When I wrote about DailyLit.com, I thought of Bartleby.com and Project Gutenberg, which got me wondering about other online spots for free books. Got the itch to read but nothing new at hand? Here are 15 places to scratch:

UPenn: The Online Books Page (25,000 free books from the University of Pennsylvania)

Internet Public Library (not just books, but also some of the best research archives of online resources you'll find)

eLibrary (directory of ebooks with over 330 free titles)

Project Gutenberg (17,000 free public domain ebooks)

Bartleby.com (classic literature and reference books)

Read-Print (Thousands of free classics)

bibliomania (free classics, some references, articles, and interviews)

Children's Books Online (online antique illustrated children's books)

FreeTechBooks.com (free online computer science and programming books and lecture notes)

Classic Bookshelf (free online classics with a customizable interface)

Daily Lit (get free classics sent to you via email on a daily basis, chunk at a time)

Page by Page Books (hundreds of online classics in an online page format)

Great Books and Classics (great books from many fields; not just the "usual suspects")

Turning the Pages (online gallery of rare manuscripts from the British Museum)

Classic Reader (classic books, plays, poetry, and drams online)