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Can anybody recommend some good free books to download via iBooks? :)

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Pepper Pot

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As the title says - I'm after free books that you think are good on the iBooks app.

Sorry if I've posted in the wrong section.


Thanks,
Peter James 🙂


P.S. I'm open to any genres.
 
It's really depend on what kind of books you're into. The following are free books I have on my iBooks

  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
  • Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E.M. Berens
  • The Art of War - Sun Zi
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
 
illutionz said:
It's really depend on what kind of books you're into. The following are free books I have on my iBooks

  • The Economic Consequences of the Peace - John Maynard Keynes
  • Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E.M. Berens
  • The Art of War - Sun Zi
  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Thankyouu I've just downloaded Sherlock Holmes I'm gonna start reading it soonish🙂
 
i have the complete harry potter series on my iBooks as PDF's. they're not that hard to find on google 😉 it's kind of surprising how many books you can find as PDF's and not have to pay a cent for them..
 
latsyrhc said:
i have the complete harry potter series on my iBooks as PDF's. they're not that hard to find on google 😉 it's kind of surprising how many books you can find as PDF's and not have to pay a cent for them..
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He didn't ask for stolen merchandize. If he would've ask for free food deals you wouldn't chime in about the food you stole from McDonalds, would you?
 
How about "The iPhone iOS4 Users guide". It's a free PDF publication from Apple. The more people who have it and read the better for this forum.
 
Some free books I downloaded:

Siddhartha, Thus spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, Tales of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Walden, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, War and Peace, On the Origin of Species, Common Sense, The adventure of Tom Sawyer, Sherlock Holmes, Thoughts on Art and Life(Da Vinci), Aesop's Fables, Winnie the Pooh (the Apple guy downloaded it for me in store😀) ......
 
Haven't played with iBooks (3G at the moment, haven't upgraded the thing to iOS4) but I do have BookShelf - and I like the selection of free books I can get to at www.webscription.net. Webscription is primarly to promote Baen's pay-for ebooks (reasonably priced, and no DRM!) but they do have the Free Library section.

What's cool about that is the authors choose to offer those up for free 🙂

Don't know if it would be possible to get it downloaded directly, but if you can add off your computer you can download from there in something like six different formats.
 
Try these -

Painless by Derek Ciccone and
Ransom X by IB Holder

Bother are recent releases and well written, interesting stories. A little minor editing and they are as good as if not better than many paid books.
 
You can also do a search by "Project Guetinburg" (sp?) and you can browse the MANY books that are free through that project.
 
I know it's not iBooks, but the B&N eBook store has 100 free eBooks right now, plus one free one per week all summer. Worth looking into.
 
Thanks everyone, I've downloaded quite a few now🙂

Feel free to post some more, or any murder stories for my mum to read.


thanks.
 
Recommendation

There is a free series on iBooks by Nicky Charles. The first book is called "The Mating" and the second book is "The Keeping" and the third book is supposed to be released soon, its called "The Finding." The series is great, reminds me a lot of twilight because there are werewolves involved. You wont be able to put it down. Note that there are parts where it gets a bit too graphic with relations between couples but if you don't mind that then you'll love the books.
 
I'd download the Stanza app, and browse the site "Drinkmalk"

It enables me to download ebooks of the books I've already physically got (Why would I pay twice for the same book?)

It's pretty nifty 🙂
 
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