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Shared books at esnips.com. You can download the entire book. Authors include Jeffrey Archer, Fredrick Forsyth, Arthur Hailey, Erich Segal, Michael Crichton, J K Rowling, Terry Pratchett, etc. Comments blogreader 18 May 2006 4:39 pm: Anand, are these downloads copyright comliant? any idea? Sai 18 May 2006 7:01 pm: Real nice, thanks for sharing. Dhar 19 May 2006 5:53 am: Blogreader, you can bet your last dime that these books are NOT copyright compliant. Cheers, D. Anonymous 19 May 2006 1:38 pm: Then do u still think we shud support these? S Anand 19 May 2006 5:35 pm: Doesn’t look like anyone’s earning any money out of it – so it may not be a matter of support. I guess at best we can choose not to download these. Sai 19 May 2006 11:09 pm: Oops :). did not realize that angle. Had felt happy for having found a cool medium. Anonymous 20 May 2006 6:25 am: Yes Anand. Makes sense. It wud be so unfair on our part to enjoy some nice works without having to pay for it.

Tech books for free from O’Reilly. Speaking of which, it looks like you can read whole books on Google Print.

Hacking Google Print

Fictionbook.lib is a nice source of fiction (full-text). Mostly Russian. But if you check out your favourite author, maybe they have a few books. Comments Aditya Chaturvedi 7 Mar 2005 7:28 pm: Thanks Anand!! S Anand 8 Mar 2005 3:43 am: Quite welcome :-) S Anand 17 Mar 2005 9:42 am: Here are some more free ebooks mani 3 Apr 2007 5:06 am: hi.. i read a few books from fictionbook, like ‘Three Men in a boat’ and ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ etc Now i just cant find the same book there.. have they removed all english versions of novles, from that site?

I’m trying a couple of experiments with my blog. One is a feed of sorts that shows recently updated blogs. I’m conducting a trial with a few blogs I read, on the right-side tab “Recently updated blogs”. The last 3 posts of the blogs updated within 3 days one-and-half days show up here (using their RSS feed). The other is creating an online catalog of digital resources I’ve encountered. Right now, I’ve put in books (fiction) I’ve read soft copies of on the right side tab “My fiction collection”. I’m planning to add non-fiction, music and movies. ...

Project Gutenberg explains some proposed changes in answer to a question on Slashdot.

The Ancient History Sourcebook contains many ancient books in full-text (English), such as The Odyssey, The Code of Hammurabi, etc. Also included are the Manusmriti and Chanakya’s Arthashastra. Chanakya has also written a lesser known Niti Shastra.

Free online science fiction at the Baen Library.

From online scripts, I’m moving to online short stories. Never could resist O Henry.