# Share your ebook finds! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 14, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225 "2011-12-14T20:56:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/1 "2011-12-14T20:56:28Z")
I just recently got myself the new B&N Nook Tablet. It’s a pretty nice little piece of tech, and I enjoy using it. So now I need to know where to get stuff to put on it! Anyone know any hidden little spots on the web to find interesting material? I found [free-ebooks.net](http://free-ebooks.net) and I’m trying to decide if I think it’s worth getting the paid membership to get epub format books instead of the free PDF or text versions, but other than that I only know about the big bookstore sites. So share your favorites! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/2 "2011-12-14T21:34:28Z")
[The MobileRead Wiki’s list of free ebook sites](http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Free_eBooks) ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/3 "2011-12-14T21:58:30Z")
And to be clear, I’m not only looking for free ebooks. Any good source, especially ones other than sites like [bn.com](http://bn.com) that charge $11.95 for ebooks of 40-year-old paperbacks (for Dune, seriously?), is welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/4 "2011-12-14T22:12:17Z")
The ones that get recommended most frequently around here, for good reason, are [Project Gutenberg](http://www.gutenberg.org/) (the mother lode for older books that are in the public domain), [manybooks.net](http://www.manybooks.net/) (which has a lot of overlap with Gutenberg, but some more recent titles, too, and a different, possibly more user-friendly interface), and (if you like science fiction) [the Baen Free Library](http://www.baen.com/Library/). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/5 "2011-12-15T00:07:53Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > especially ones other than sites like [bn.com](http://bn.com) that charge $11.95 for ebooks of 40-year-old paperbacks (for Dune, seriously?) And, I just had to look this up and see for myself. The electronic edition of _Dune_ is currently priced at $14.99, at both [bn.com](http://bn.com) (for Nook) and [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) (for Kindle). Meanwhile, the paperback can be bought for $9.99 new or as low as $0.01 (plus S&H) used. And as if that weren’t bad enough, one of the customer reviews at Amazon says that “the Kindle version is very poorly edited, and formating and spelling errors occur regularly.” This is insane. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-ebook-finds/606225/6 "2011-12-15T00:31:28Z")
Many libraries lend ebooks. You should check if yours does, and what formats they support.