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Reference. Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Dead Good - the home of killer crime books, drama and film. Directory Of The Best 150 Book Sites. Authors - OrderOfBooks.com. E-books. Free Ebooks. The Best Places To Find Your Next Free Book Online. LibraryThing | Catalog your books online.

Whichbook | A new way of choosing what to read next. Online Books, Poems, Short Stories - Read Print Library. Book recommendations from readers like you. The Books That Changed Your Lives. I have a feeling that many of these are favourite books rather than life-changing.

Certainly I love "The Hitch-hikers Guide ... ", "Ender" and "Dune" but I don't think they have changed my life. I also love "The Lord of the Rings", by coincidence I married an Arwen so maybe that counts in my case. Jared Diamond's book is very interesting but hardly life-changing. In my opinion "2001: A Space Odyssey" had a huge effect on the way people perceive the benefits of science, undermining the positive attitude created by the Apollo program. "1984" had the biggest effect on me, changing my view of government, communication and words. I have read but cannot recall much of "Zen ... " but you have inspired me to pick it up again and the two Dawkins books are waiting on my "to be read" pile. Book-A-Minute SF/F. Free Books - 50 Places to Find Free Books Online. Mar 18, 2011 Free books can be found everywhere--if you know where to look.

Below you'll find 50 places offering free books online, including fiction and nonfiction ebooks, audio books, poetry, reference books and even free textbooks. Free Fiction and Nonfiction Books Authorama - You can find more than 100 free books from a variety of different authors on Authorama. New books are added to the site each month, and they've all been translated into plain ASCII or HTML so that no e-reader is required. Free Education Books and Textbooks Free Tech Books - This site offers a wide range of free computer science and programming textbooks, lecture notes and ebooks. Free Reference Books Bartleby - Reference books on every topic imaginable, including literature, government, anatomy, mythology and religion.

Free Audio Books Books Should Be Free - This site is a great place to find free fiction and nonfiction. FullBooks.com - Thousands of Full-Text Free Books. E-Books Directory - Categorized Books, Short Reviews, Free Downloads. Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine. Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia. Brave And Startling Truth - By Maya Angelou. Free-Ed.Net. Free Courses Online Training IT Certification. History and Geography of Europe. 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books | Speckyboy Design Magazine. There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge.

In this post rather than offer all of my favorite web design books, I have listed 12 books that I have either downloaded and read (or at least scanned through), or I have bookmarked with the whole-hearted intention of eventually reading it (Ruby Best Practices), and the best thing of all? All of these books are completely FREE, in digital format anyway (PDF or HTML). I have not offered a critique of each book, as I feel that would not be fair on the author. If someone spends so much of their valuable time (in some cases months and months) and writes an entire book on web design, in my eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web (HTML) Author(s): Richard Rutter. Home. Digital Public Library of America. Free.