The Daily Dinar

Seeking Alpha list four places on the internet where one can find free books to read. One can add Scribd to that list too.

1) Wikisource - You must know by now we are big fans of Wikipedia, occasional controversies and factual problems notwithstanding. Wikisource is the virtual library portion of the Wiki-empire. Recent additions to Wikisource are right up the alley of college and high school students studying literature and the humanities: “The Mayor of Casterbridge,” by Thomas Hardy, “Daisy Miller,” by Henry James, and “Erewhon,” by Samuel Butler.

2) Online Books Page - This is more of a directory than a repository, with links to more than 25,000 online books. It offers links to books in their holographic (that is, original format and design) format, especially good for students and scholars.

3) Want a good study guide to “Brave New World?” Go to Bibliomania which offers study guides to classic literature developed by final year and postgraduate literature students from top UK and US universities.

4) Gutenberg Project is the granddaddy of all online book projects. It has continually evolved, and now permits downloads of entire CD-length collections via BitTorrent. Site data indicate that more than 3 million books were downloaded from Gutenberg in the last 30 days. Tops in the last week? “Manual of Surgery,” by Alexander Miles and Alexis Thomson, with 4,597 downloads. According to book uploader Laura Wisewell, the online edition was produced just after World War I and contains accounts of gangrene, tuberculosis and syphilis. “Read it and be grateful that you live in a time and country with antibiotics,” she says. “In this book, amputation is the answer to everything.”