Anthony asked in one of my comments where to get ebooks. Aside from Amazon (but you have to look hard) and the other main book outlets on the web, I use the following alot.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page This is a non-profit outfit that's transcribing out of copyright material to electronic format on the web. A lot of the classics that I've read over the last couple of years are from here. If nothing else, contribute a bit, it's a good thing.
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp?Language=EN This is the online store for the ebook reader I use on my PC. Some good stuff, some weird stuff too.
http://www.baen.com/ A lot of my favorite SciFi writers are part of Baen Publishing. They've got a free library and a link to http://www.webscription.net/default.aspx which carries several publishing houses output.
I shall now go off on a tangent.
Eric Flint, the "web librarian" of Baen's free library has a treatise, if you will, about making these books freely available. Read it, it's good, just go to the free library and click the home link.
Edit: Alan over at Snarkybytes just pointed me to Feedbooks. I just might sign up for an account. I was looking at the Stanza reader for iPhone earlier today since Mobipocket hasn't ported over theirs yet.
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Take a look at FeedBooks. They format public domain books for all the popular ebook readers. Kindle, Sony, iPhone,
Thanks a lot for making this post. I have been spending the last few hours looking for a downloading interesting books that I want to read. Good thing I have insomnia lol.
My "to read" list has just gotten much much larger, at this rate I will be reading until I am old and gray.
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