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  30,000 English ebooks from Project Gutenberg

  3895 readersFrom Project Gutenberg News, an article by Michael Hart: Today, just six weeks after Project Gutenberg posted its 40,000th internally created book, the 30,000th English ebook has now been placed online: The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia, by Archibald Henry Sayce. Thanks go out to Delphine Lettau, David King and the Online Distributed Proofreaders

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  OverDrive Project Gutenberg collection out of beta

  2977 readersGood news for libraries and Project Gutenberg: OverDrive’s Project Gutenberg eBook collection, featuring over 15,000 EPUB titles that are free to your library and to your customers, is out of beta and available on more than 125 ‘Virtual Branch’ websites. Since we launched this feature in August, library customers have downloaded 100,000 eBooks from the

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  OverDrive Project Gutenberg Collection Report 100,000 downloads

  1948 readersDigital book distributor OverDrive is reporting that 100,000 eBooks have been downloaded at libraries through its Project Gutenberg eBook collection, since the collection launched in beta in August. The OverDrive Project Gutenberg collection includes m...

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  ManyBooks – free public domain ebooks in almost any format

  1161 readers Time to look again at ManyBooks, a fantastic resource for free, public domain works.  Here’s what they say about themselves: Many of the etexts are from the November, 2003 Project Gutenberg DVD, which contains the entire Project Gutenberg archives except for the Human Genome Project and audio eBooks, due to size limitations, and the Project Gutenberg

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  Calibre starts drm-free ebook site

  4624 readersCalibre has just started a new site for drm-free ebooks.  Here’s what they say: calibre introduces Open Books, a site for easy browsing of DRM-free e-books (e-books without DRM) that are not in the public domain. calibre has a cornucopia of features including library management, e-book conversion, syncing with devices, news download, e-book viewing etc,

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  10 Websites To Download Free eBooks

  2656 readersAmazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and Apple all offer free eBooks in their stores, but there are many more resources for free eBooks out there. Here is a list of ten websites that offer free legal eBook downloads. Did we leave something out? Where do ...

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  OverDrive apps updated, plus Project Gutenberg eBooks on mobile sites

  1903 readersFrom the OverDrive blog: Today, we released updates to the OverDrive Media Console apps for iPhone (iOS) and Android, which include the addition of one-click, automatic downloads and other enhancements to user experience. At the same time, we’ve updated the mobile ‘Virtual Branch’ sites for libraries with a Project Gutenberg collection, enabling access to the 15,000 DRM-free

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  Project Gutenberg titles now available for Australian libraries

  2912 readers From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: Australian libraries with digital collections powered by OverDrive can now access more than 23,000 public domain titles for free through Project Gutenberg.  The titles can be read in any EPUB-compatible software and transferred to EPUB-capable eBook readers, including the Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble NOOK, or the Kobo eReader.  You’ll

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  “Best Romance” app now on iPhone: the best of romance ebooks with 15 free titles

  1251 readers From the press release: Just released, the “Best Romance” app, now available on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, presents the world’s best of the most recent romance novels. The app offers romance fans free previews of all ebooks and 15 complete bestselling free ebooks. “Best Romance” application is now available on Apple App

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  Free Kindle books from Bookyards

  1653 readersBlog Kindle (unofficial) has an article on Bookyards. I must admit I had never heard of them. They have about 17,000 free ebooks in Kindle PDF format, says the blog. This free e-book library is mostly education oriented. So, a student, or a researcher, or just a curious erudite might find this resource a very