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The only site I know of is Project Gutenberg. They only carry things outside of copyright, but those are probably the only legal free e-books you'll find readily available. The only other free e-book I know if is Machine of Death, which is a collection of short stories around a common theme that I've posted about before.

Yeah, I've found ones through torrent too. I'd rather not use it but instead hope to find books that the author or publisher has made free...or cheap.

Also, the Nookcolor has a book sharing program that is all legal-like that allows you to share copywrited content with other Nook users.

Getting books to the nook is done through a cord. The reader basically just acts like an external drive. You put whatever you want on it. It reads most standard file types. If you buy books or other content through barnes and noble, they'll ship um to your nook via wifi.

At your own risk.

Amazon's cloud reader for the PC sucks. I bought some Avatar comics for cheap and reading them on my laptop is so annoying that I have only read the first couple pages off the first book. The interface is so clunky. Zooming and panning is needlessly complicated and interrupts me reading.

I got the Dr. Who comics from that one Humble Bundle for Flea and had to try a couple of the available formats before I found one that looked decent on the Android Kindle app. The high def PDFs looked like crap but the .mobi files came out nice.

I liked that series. Read it quite a while ago, however.

Edited, Jul 15th 2014 12:49am by Timelordwho

Here is where you can find out about Nooks (B&N) free Friday offerings (typically an e-book and app). There will also be lots of 'comments' left of other free book opportunities.

I've done that!

One of the more useful free little programs I've ever downloaded.

This thread was actually started three years ago. I'm on my second Nook. Not that anything was wrong with the first, but I wanted the bigger screen and more memory space.

In hindsight, I kind of wish I'd gone with a more standardized tablet. B&N has made plenty of the Android apps available, but still, you can't simply get the app you want, when you want it from any old app store.

Amazon is offering [600,000 books from] its Kindle library on a subscription basis for $9.99 a month for as much as you can read. Presumably you wouldn't own the books but rather some sort of DRM would be in effect.

Edit: They advertise over 600,000 books. I don't know if that's their entire Kindle offerings or a portion thereof. On the plus side, this could potentially be your chance to read "Ravished by the Triceratops" without the shame of having bought a copy.

Edited, Jul 18th 2014 11:19am by Jophiel

This is not quite correct. I almost jumped on unlimited, but where I searched fro Anne McCafferty and Terry Brooks neither of them are covered under unlimited. Another Quick search shows Stephen King doesn't looked covered either. I am taking a wait and see approach until I can find enough books that are unlimited to justify the cost....should not take too long. They do have a good selection just not for some of my favorites.