Ebooks

For those of us who still read something other than blogs, There are a lot of free sources of books on the Internet, though they are mostly older because of copyright law.

The biggest and most well known collection of free books is Project Gutenberg (named after the European inventor of the printing press). Right now they have 17,000 freely downloadable ebooks. Lately, they have also been adding sheet music and both human and computer read audio books. There are also CD and DVD collections available for download, over a variety of protocols. Depending on the book, Project Gutenberg has a number formats available, but all books are available as plain text, which is easier to read if you convert it to some other format.

Manybooks.net has a similar collection, although most are available in a wider variety of formats for different handheld devices. They also have a chapter a day type blog, which is read by talkr.com  (I haven't had a chance to try this yet, so I don't know how the quality is)

AudioBooksForFree.com has free, decent quality audio books. You can also get them on various devices for a fee. They require to register and limit you to a low bit rate unless you give them money. This being said, the quality is still good enough.

The Internet Archive also has a limited collection of books, as well as a huge collection of other media for free. Their WayBackMachine is handy for websites that have disappeared.

You can also find more sources on google, but these sites cover most of the available texts. Many free Ebook sites just reformat the Project Gutenberg texts.

Happy Reading (yes some classics are good)