Reading books online rather than buying the printed versions or traveling to a library to check them out can save you money and time. Many websites allow you to read books without paying a fee. All you need is a computer, Internet access and the names of those authors whose works you wish to read. Some titles, of course, will not be available online.
Instructions
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Visit Project Gutenbrg, a website that offers access to more than 36,000 ebooks. The website explains that you may download the books to your personal computer or to any of several portable devices, including Kindle, iPad, iPhone and Android. It cautions, however, that the books are free to U.S. readers because their U.S. copyrights have expired and that readers in other countries should check the copyrights in their respective countries before downloading the books.
2Explore the Questia Online Library, which features upwards of 5,000 titles that visitors may read for free. Among Questia's most popular free books are "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," by Mark Twain; "Tarzan of the Apes," by Edgar Rice Burroughs; "Great Expectations," by Charles Dickens; and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre."
3Take advantage of the Classic Bookshelf, where you will find electronic versions of some of the most widely known authors in American and world popular literature, including Sherwood Anderson, Jane Austen, Francis Bacon, Joseph Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, Thomas Hardy, D.H. Lawrence, Anna Sewell, William Shakespeare and Henry David Thoreau.
