A simple guide to searching for books of your interest online and downloading them.
Searching for 'Book' on Google and getting 'Facebook' as a result? Don't know where to download books of your interests? Forcefully buying books at expensive prices? Well, try these interesting tips and techniques to download books online for free.
Despite most e-books being rightly charged for, it is possible to find great e-books that are available for a free download in various formats.
Browsing Google Books
Google has hosted an impressive array of books to read online. Just head to Google Books and preview or read various books of wide interests. You can search for books on Google that are available in the public domain and download them now using Google Book Downloader.
Google Book Downloader
Google Book Downloader is a freeware utility that allows you to download a book from Google Books as a PDF file. Books that are marked as 'Full view' in the Google Books page can be downloaded for free using this great non-profit utility.
Even those books which are provided only as a 'Limited Preview' can be downloaded as per the pages available for the limited view.
Simply head over here and take a look at how Google Book Downloader works. On the same page, in the right corner, there is a link to download the freeware. Click it to download the utility from the site.
Please note that Google Book Downloader is a Windows-only freeware.
Not just Google Book Downloader? Try book search engines.
There are many places on the web which are dedicated search engines for online books. Simply head over to these great places to search for books of your liking and download them as per the links provided:
1. Free Books
Free Books is a search engine for e-books where search results bring out documented books in various formats. From the widely-used PDFs to Microsoft Word's Doc format, you can find various books and their download links upon a simple search query.
2. PDF Books
PDF Books is an e-book search engine very similar to Free Books, except that all search results provide download links to PDF files only. However, it is equally useful in terms of obtaining books that are available for download.
Other great websites with tons of e-books
1. ManyBooks
ManyBooks is a great website to find e-books. It boasts of hosting 24,828 books that are available for, as the website calls it, 'the best price: Free!'. ManyBooks is a great site to browse for books and download them.
2. Ebookee
Ebookee is another great website to find e-books in many categories and download them. In Ebookee, you can also get offers of free magazine subscriptions.
3. Full Books
Full Books is a simple website with absolutely nothing else but categories of e-books that can be browsed through. All the books are in plain text and available online only, but you can download them as PDF files by reading this.
4. ReadPrint
ReadPrint is a great website with a superb collection of books, mainly for school-going children and teachers. However, the site features classic books that are a must-read for anybody. ReadPrint also has it's own search engine.
Not content? Check out more great sites like FreeTechBooks, Free Ebooks and Planet Ebook.
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Read Print is indeed the best service to read books for free.
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