How to do it

[WmWalker]

I would like to learn what sites are good to download free ebooks from. Also do I have to convert it to any other form or anything.

[EagleEyez]

If you like reading books, I am sure you have library card to your public library.

Check their website for digital library/ebook/overdrive etc.

They should have all the instructions for downloading books and the software to use.

[WmWalker]

thanks soo much

[icebike]

What sites?

Well, there is this little company called Barnes and Noble.

You can search for books in any category, and then sort the list by price and find all the free ones at the top of the list.  

[GeoffreyF]

All of Google books are available directly from your nook.  You can also browse on the B&N web site.  There is no "Free books" section but you will find them especially when you look for classics.

[EmmaD]

My library doesn't have Overdrive yet.     We can now rent from 5 other libraries around us, (not in my city) but they don't do any e book lending yet. 

[eagleSB]

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GeoffreyF wrote:

All of Google books are available directly from your nook.  You can also browse on the B&N web site.  There is no "Free books" section but you will find them especially when you look for classics.

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There is a free books section, but it is very limited.  You can find it on the ebooks page on B&N on the left side under "Browse" or you can click here.  To find other free books, go to the ebooks page, choose your genre and sort by price.

[Wrennie]

You can find some interesting free books at smashwords by unknown and self-published authors. Some are priced with a low (under $5.00) tag and a lot are free. You can sort by genre and then by price. I have read a few books from there. Maybe not NYT best sellers but good.

[Sterlic]

Feedbooks.com has a really nice interface and tons of great, well-formatted public domain books (and some original works) all for free and in ePUB format (native nook format). It seems to be down right now but I was using it earlier today to great success.

Edit: It's back up now.

[lizzyizzy]

I like ManyBooks you can download many different formats or you can get Calibre to convert eBooks to different formats.

[wrapunzel]

http://online-novels.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction.html   (free novels updated daily)

https://www.smashwords.com/  (free and for sale)

[Snowie]

http://www.gutenberg.org/ is one of the more well known sites for public domain books

http://www.baen.com/library/ also has some great books if you like SCFI and Fantasy.

[illmunkeys]

I highly recommend Gutenberg. These are of a much higher quality than any Google Book you'll find as Gutenberg has an army of editors to actually go over the scans.  It offers ePub versions of most of its library, so you don't have to convert anything. 

However, once you start collecting a ton of eBooks, you'll really want an application that can keep track of everything for you.  I recommend Calibre for that.  It can convert pretty much any document to EPUBs, download news (stripping away advertisements), and update/edit metadata tags to make finding your books much easier.  I think its a must to managing any eBook library.

[icebike · Accepted solution]

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illmunkeys wrote:

I highly recommend Gutenberg. These are of a much higher quality than any Google Book you'll find as Gutenberg has an army of editors to actually go over the scans.  It offers ePub versions of most of its library, so you don't have to convert anything. 

However, once you start collecting a ton of eBooks, you'll really want an application that can keep track of everything for you.  I recommend Calibre for that.  It can convert pretty much any document to EPUBs, download news (stripping away advertisements), and update/edit metadata tags to make finding your books much easier.  I think its a must to managing any eBook library.

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I second the recommendation of Calibre.  Its really the only way to use these other sources.

And as second MicroSD card as well.  

And I point out you will need it for the Gutenberg epub files.  Gutenberg has a rather lame epub template with no side margin at all.  This plays havoc with the black margins on the nook making them hard to read.

However, just open them with Calibre and convert from epub to epub and the book is reformatted to read much better on the nook.

[WmWalker]

THANK YOU EVERYONE, i have looked at your responses and it has really helped.