The History Book Club discussion

This thread discusses free e-books available.

Please add any links to free e-books that you know are available. Our focus is history and non-fiction so please identify the nature of the link. That helps our group members know what to look for on that site and what specific genres are available.

No self promotion of any kind.

First, let us start with goodreads. Did you know that goodreads has over 3100 e-books that you can read right on your computer or download. You can easily increase the print size too.

Here is the link.

http://www.goodreads.com/ebooks

There is also feedbooks:

http://www.feedbooks.com/authors/top

Project Gutenberg is always a good resource:

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Bartleby.com

This is a good resource for The Harvard Classics and other classical material:

Here are a couple of links:

http://www.bartleby.com/1/1/



Also:

http://www.bartleby.com/nonfiction/

Not sure if you noticed; but Grant's memoirs are there and quite a few works by Theodore Roosevelt.

Ulysses S. Grant

Theodore Roosevelt

http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/cgi-bin/...

downloads of books, all kinds, mostly pre 1900.

Sorry, we do not allow marketing or self-promotion on our clubs threads. If you have questions please refer to our guidelines. Thank you.

There are a bunch of great free Kindle ebooks:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_...

I downloaded a couple titles that I found browsing the link you put up, Bentley. I always thought I would be a confirmed reader of the physical book, but am finding with my iPad it is handy to have a few things in ebook form to read when travelling. Now I just seem to be expanding my library and my to-read list. Thank you (I think) :-D

You are welcome (smile) - I downloaded a few myself.

Free EBook for Military Enthusiasts: (Amazon)

Hardcore Leadership: 11 Master Lessons from My Airborne Ranger Uncle's "Final Jump" [Kindle Edition]

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00C01XPUY

by Deborah L. Parker

Free EBook for Military Enthusiasts: (Amazon)

Blood on Red Dirt [Kindle Edition]

by Gary K. Cowart (no photo)

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006RDKJ78?t...

Open Culture - Free Ebooks:

This collection features free e-books, mostly classics, that you can read on your iPad/iPhone (purchase), Kindle (purchase), Nook (purchase) or other devices. It includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. To learn how to load books to your Kindle using the links below, please watch this video. This other video explains how to upload epub files to a Nook. Calibre (free software) also offers a handy way to load ebooks to e-readers.

http://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks

Read any book Free that is on readanybook.com:

http://www.readanybook.com/genre/nonf...

The Mises Institute has a large library of economics, history, and other social science books in .epub, .pdf, and other formats. They have my favorite history book, Conceived in Liberty by Murray Rothbard, in a great .epub edition.

http://mises.org/Literature

Murray N. Rothbard

Thank you very much Douglas for the post.

I did delete a couple of previous posts which when I checked were no longer free even if you were in the UK.

Folks, please feel free to post free ebook offers that are not self promoting. Our membership certainly wants to take advantage of these. Make sure to add proper citations as Douglass did in message 18.

Cory Doctorow is one of my favorite authors, and he has made all of his books available free online in multiple formats. Although this book mentioned here is classified as science fiction, it features as a major theme the U.S. Bill of Rights and has won multiple awards. I highly recommend this book for young adults and adults.

Little Brother

All, if you know of free ebooks that are not self promotional - please of course add the links and let us know - our members would like to take advantage. By all means post here. See above for ideas.

However, if publishers want to offer us free publications to read - we do have policies in place but do not post these offers here. We will be happy to discuss. Simply send Bentley a PM.

Here is a link to some current free e-books and other options on goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/ebooks?utf8...

All, if you know of free ebooks that are not self promotional - please of course add the links and let us know - our members would like to take advantage. By all means post here. See above for ideas.

However, if publishers want to offer us free publications to read - we do have policies in place but do not post these offers here. We will be happy to discuss. Simply send Bentley a PM.

Just as an FYI - Read any book has Comey's book free with download:

https://read-any-book.com/ebook/a-hig...

National Academies Press has over 10,000 published books available for free download online. Most of the titles relate to science and technology, but there are some titles in the social sciences, economics, etc. These are mostly titles you might use for research. A lot of it is National Research Council titles and reports consolidated from conferences, but there are a few gems in there like this one:

by Edward O. Wilson

It is worth checking out if you do a lot of research or have interests in the sciences (e.g. engineering) or histories of sciences (e.g. history of space exploration).

Source: National Academies Press

Open Access is a publishing model for academic publications, journals and articles.
The OAPEN ( https://library.oapen.org/ ) currently lists ~25.000 English publications. The Directory of Open Access Books ( https://doabooks.org/ ) is another public access point.

For example:
Colonialism, Capitalism and Racism ( https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5...) by Jan Bremen (Amsterdam University Press) which can also be purchased in print and found on goodreads
by Jan Breman (no photo)

It should be clear then what the Directory of Open Access Journals ( https://doaj.org/ ) is, it currently lists more than 20.000 journals and 10.000.000 articles.

For example:
Africa's Transitions to the Middle Ages ( https://doaj.org/article/28aeb8eae1a1... ) from the Medieval Worlds journal ( https://www.medievalworlds.net/mediev... )

The European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences ( https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publis... ) provides more than 10.000 journals.

Taylor & Francis Online ( https://www.tandfonline.com/ ) provides ~5.300.000 academic articles and journals.

Printing books isn't for free, many of the publications you can also purchase in print, for example:

by Christoph Witzenrath (no photo)

Which can also be found for free in the various OA access points ( https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.5... ) and also at the publishers site ( https://www.degruyter.com/document/do... ). The complete Dependency and Slavery Studies ( https://www.degruyter.com/serial/dss-... ) series is Open Access, by the way, as is a tremendous number of other excellent series.