Ebooks

Sites

OverDrive

Free audiobook and e-book collection. Contains some Project Gutenberg titles. Regularly updated. Requires free OverDrive software installation.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.

40kBooks

Short fiction and non-fiction ebooks in four languages.

Amazon

Free and pay for downloadable books. A free Kindle application allows free books to be downloaded for reading on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Android Phones - the Kindle eReader is not required.

Baen Free Library

Baen.com publishes and supplies science fiction and fantasy printed and e-books. It makes some ebooks available for free. HTML, Microsoft Reader, Mobipocket Reader formats.

Bartleby.com

Free downloadable e-books, supported by advertising. Wide range of titles.

Bookboon.com

Free downloadable travel guides, student textbooks and business books in .PDF format, written exclusively for Bookboon. Books are supported by advertising.

Catalog of Free eBooks

This guide covers where and how to obtain free e-books of all kinds.

Google Books

Out-of-copyright books that you can read, download and print. Previews of in-copyright and in-print books that you may want to purchase, in-copyright but out-of-print books that Google has or will digitise.

Internet Archive Text Archive

Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. PDF format.

ManyBooks.net

A mixture of Project Gutenburg text, public domain and creative commons works from a number of sources in an easy-to-navigate site. Formats are: .doc, ePub, eReader, iLiad PDF, iPod Notes, iSilo, Mobipocket/Kindle, PDF, Large Print PDF, Plucker, Sony, Microsoft 'LIT' format, FictionBook.

meBooks

New Zealand e-books - includes New Zealand fiction and non-fiction and also a lot of out of copyright New Zealand books for free. Books are in ePub or Mobi (Amazon Kindle) format.

Project Gutenberg

More than 36,000 free downloadable copyright expired e-books, including many classic works of literature, digitised by volunteers. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. As well as literature their catalogue contains audiobooks, data, recorded and sheet music and video. Some of these titles are also available through OverDrive.

Project Gutenberg - Australia

Books in the public domain in Australia, prepared by volunteers. Choose between ePub, Mobipocket HTML and simple text formats.

TED books

Short nonfiction works, each less than 20,000 words each - long enough to explain a powerful idea, but short enough to be read in a single sitting.

World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. PDF