400 Free eBooks: Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook



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.

Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video

Learn how to load ebook epub files to your Nook with this video:

Assorted Texts

  • Assortment of Classic Books for KidsRead Online
  • 65 Modern Art Books by the Guggenheim - Read Online
  • Baldwin, Frederick - Dear Monsieur Picasso – PDF
  • Boon, Marcus - In Praise of Copying – PDF
  • Chomsky, Noam and Edward Herman – Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact and Propaganda – Read Online
  • Chomsky, Noam - Deterring Democracy – Read Online
  • Chomsky, Noam – Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture, Boston: South End Press, 1993. – Read Online
  • Chomsky, Noam – Year 501: The Conquest Continues – Read Online
  • Chomsky, Noam - Secrets, Lies and Democracy – Read Online
  • Brand, Stewart – The Whole Earth Catalog – Read Online
  • Doctorow, Cory - I, Robot – Kindle + Other Formats
  • Doctorow, Cory – With a Little Help – Kindle + Other Formats
  • Free Art Catalogs from The Metropolitan Museum of ArtRead Online
  • Kamenetz, Anya – The Edupunks’ Guide to a DIY Credential – Kindle + Other Formats
  • Lessig, Lawrence - The Future of Ideas – PDF
  • Lethem, Jonathan – The Empty Room – Read Online
  • Rucker, Rudy – The Ware Tetralogy – D0wnload
  • Scroggy, David – The Blade Runner Sketchbook: The Art of Syd Mead and Ridley Scott – Read Online
  • Wright, Erik Olin – Selected Writings – Read Online
  • The Beatles – Yellow Submarine – iPad

This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily BeastComputer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker

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