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LibriVox

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Google Books

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Subject: The Little-Known Trick for Exploring the Free GB Super-Library..

From: "Berkeley Brett"

Date: 21 Dec 2006 06:53:52 -0800

excerpts from the post:

be SURE to select "Full view books" under the search box. This is NOT the default! If you do not select "Full view books," you will get lots of "hits" from your searches, but few of them will be full-text public-domain books that can be read online.

You can download the entire book (at no cost) in PDF format by clicking the "Download" button in the upper right region. Or, you can simply browse the contents of the book by scrolling or by clicking the "Contents" portion in the rightmost window.

If you want to refine your book searches, you will want to go to the "Advanced Book Search" page.

http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

HERE AGAIN, you will need to select "Full view books" instead of "All books" if you want books in the public domain! Starting from this page, you will be able to conduct searches by author, title, date, etc.

Podiobooks.com

http://podiobooks.com/

From: Dan

Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:33:36 -0800

Another site for free audiobooks is:

http://podiobooks.com/

The books are original works of fiction, recently written, and read by the author. I just tried Seventh Son (scifi) and am happy with it.