iPad is a great device for reading books due to its large screen. My main daily use of iPad is to read newspaper and books when on bus or during my spare time. You can find tons of e-books on iBooks app store and it is easy to do that if you get a computer. However, not everyone love to pay the e-books when there are free ways to get the same book. Here is a list of free e-books site which provide a plenty of e-book for iPad user.

 

Free iPad E-book Site - Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers over 36,000 free ebooks to download to your PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. It carries high quality ebooks: All their ebooks were previously published by bona fide publishers. They digitized and diligently proofed them with the help of thousands of volunteers. No fee or registration is required.

 

Free iPad E-book Site - E-Books Directory

E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet. You can submit and promote your own ebooks, add comments on already posted books or just browse through the directory below and download anything you need.

 

Free iPad E-book Site - Scribd.com

In case you have never heard of this one before, the simplest way to define Scribd would be to call it Youtube for documents. People can upload whatever text documents they want and easily share them with others. You'll find lots and lots of free ebooks here. You only need to know what to look for. For instance try searching for George Orwell, Leo Tolstoi, etc. And obviously it gets copyrighted ebooks much like YouTube gets copyrighted videos. I am not sure if they are doing anything to deal with them, but the fact is there are plenty of them on Scribd.

 

BTW, if you want to read documents or paper not supported by iPad, you can convert their to them to epub, which is a native ebook format for iPad.

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