SITES WHERE YOU CAN READ BOOKS ONLINE

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SITES WHERE YOU CAN READ BOOKS ONLINE
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1. PROJECT GUTENBERG

• Project Gutenberg is a mother of all eBooks
  sites. It started in 1971, when a first eBook
  ever was created, Declaration of Independence of
  the United States of America.
• Many sites that offer free eBooks from public
  domain use the titles originally uploaded to
  Project Gutenberg.
• Currently, there are about 45,000 public domain
  books in the catalog. If youre looking for great
  classic books, Project Gutenberg is the right
  destination to go.

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2. INTERNET ARCHIVE

• Internet Archive, founded in 1996, is a
  non-profit organisation offering free access to
  digital or digitized content books, images,
  videos, or audio files.
• The catalog includes well over 6,000,000 fully
  accessible public domain ebooks and other text
  files. The section can be reached at this
  link archive.org/details/texts.
• Use the search box in the top left corner to find
  the book. By default, the list of results will be
  limited only to texts. You can sort the results
  by relevance, rating, download count, and the
  date of adding the item to the catalog.

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3. OPEN LIBRARY

• Library. The site is actually Internet
  Archives separate project, more focused on
  collecting library records.
• Its goal is to create one web page for every
  book ever published. On a page of a single book
  youll find all its documented editions.
• The site claims to have 6 million authors and 20
  million books. You can search inside 2 million
  titles

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4. GOOGLE BOOKS

• A huge collection of books that Google scanned
  and turned into viewable files is now available
  on Google.
• The homepage of Google Books is actually a search
  box. More importantly, Google will prompt you to
  check out Google Play their online ebookstore.
• To stay in the Google Books project, use the
  search box on the left side, as shown on the
  screenshot 

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5. SMASHWORDS

• Its the biggest and most advanced site with
  eBooks from independent authors and publishers.
  There are currently around 300,000 from over
  100,000 authors.
• Many Smash words books are being sold in big
  eBook stores, including Barnes Noble, or Kobo.
• All these bookstores offer an option to send a
  sample file to a connected device or application,
  but options to read books online are limited to
  selected titles or/and short excerpts.