You'll find lots of PowerPoint presentations and documents about running electrical substations on Scribd, but the so-called 'YouTube of Print' also provides access to an enormous catalogue of fiction and non-fiction books.
It's fast and works well, but it's best suited to technical and business-related documents. If you'd rather read publications in PDF format, PDF Geni aims to be the Google of the PDF world. Both and attempt to recreate the printed magazine experience in your web browser – we use the former to showcase features on the PC Plus website – and while the available publications tend to be niche titles, a bit of browsing uncovers plenty of little gems.įREEBIES: Issuu delivers a traditional magazine experience inside your web browser Magazine publishers are beginning to embrace free content too. Nine years on, Baen's still adding books to the list of freebies. As Baen's Eric Flint explained back in 2000, Baen is giving away books to fight piracy: "I'm quite confident that any 'losses' I sustain will be more than made up for by the expansion in the size of my audience," he wrote. We particularly like the banned books category.įew mainstream publishers offer free downloads of entire books, so science fiction and fantasy publisher Baen Books deserves enormous credit for its library of published novels. The emphasis is largely on older publications – you won't find the latest Dan Brown novel here – but the choice is enormous.
One of the best places to start is Matthew McClintock's site, which collates ebooks from a wide range of sources and provides download links via the website and its associated RSS feeds. If you'd rather lose yourself in a book, there's no shortage of content to choose from – and you're not limited to the ancient, out-of-copyright titles on Project Gutenberg either. The web is awash with things to read, but even the best pieces of writing online have usually been chopped into pieces and plastered with adverts.
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