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Project Gutenberg

Note: we also have offline book catalogs to download and use at home.

Find Free Kindle Books

http://mikesowden.org/feveredmutterings/fill-your-kindle-for-free Disclaimer: this post is about free, legal Kindle books, of which there are shedloads (seriously, scroll downwards).
By Gina Barreca, Ph.D. It's a dreary day, so I thought I'd indulge myself and come up with a list of my favorite comedies.

30 Very Funny Books--Seriously

http://www.psychologytoday.com/print/50255
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/4-websites-with-lots-of-completely-free-ebooks-that-dont-suck-nb/

4 Sites with LOTS Of Completely Free Ebooks That Don’t Suck

If you’re a fervent reader and nerd like I am, you’ve probably encountered quite a lot of writing online. However, most of them are either absolute garbage or entirely illegal. It’s hard to find good, legal reads online – unless you know where to look.
Chris Silas Neal My office (a spare bedroom in my house) is strewn with books that I've gotten for possible review. There are books on the bookshelves, books more or less arranged on the floor and other books stacked high, waiting to be shelved.

10 Terrific Summer Reads

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/23/137084790/nancy-pearl-presents-10-terrific-summer-reads
http://www.stylist.co.uk/life/the-best-100-opening-lines-from-books

The Best 100 Opening Lines From Books

“ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for Les Miserables on its side blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six doesn't seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars to turn up the radio, ‘Be My Baby’ on WYNN, and the driver, black, not American, does so.”