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  3 0 Free is less of a stumbling block than ‘no downloads,’ especially if you mean this in the fullest sense, such as no pdfs (which download). If you’re looking for good current ebooks (or eaudiobooks) for Free, I’d start with your local library, which – if you live in Seattle – has a large and growing stock of these, as well as downloadable music and movies. Just sign up for a card and you can access them from anywhere, any time. However, with the exception of the kinds of computer books and the smaller collection you get from suppliers Safari and Netlibrary (see the page linked above) all of these titles would need to be downloaded. If you simply mean not to be downloaded and then uploaded to a device beyond a computer, all of the library's titles should work for you, and can be read off a laptop (if your eyes can take the strain). For just accessing a site where you can read books online, I think that aside from fansites you’ll be looking mostly at works in the public domain or made available through Creative Commons. For example, many of the works made available on the Online Books Page (which itself accesses many other sites, such as the longstanding Project Gutenberg) are published in formats that you can access without any kind of download. Likewise the public domain ‘holdings’ of Google Books, or for audiobooks a public domain site such as Librivox. Here’s a list from Wikipedia of various digital libraries, many of which will allow you to read their content without any sort of download. I could try to answer more, but I want to make sure I understand your set up: what sort of device do you want to read these books on, and over what sort of connection? David Wright answered in Other Books & Writing about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 Speaking of the library, on The Seattle Public Library's Shelf Talk blog, a librarian just wrote about great older detective-mystery-horror books and authors you can try for free--via Project Gutenberg and also available from the library. The post is called "Catnip for the technophobe: learning to love e-books." mishalibrarian answered in Other Books & Writing about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 0 I enjoyed Daily Lit for a while. Gloria answered in Other Books & Writing about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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