Read me a story

Are you a reader? I mean, a real, addicted reader? I confess that I am. If I don't have a book I have been known to read cereal boxes and jar labels in desperation. I have to have at least three books a week or I get the shakes. Okay, so maybe I'm exaggerating a little....but just a little. I can only blame my parents for starting me on this road. When I scored my first library card at age six..... I was hooked forever.

I always need new books. But it is hard to keep enough books on hand when traveling so I went searching for books to possibly down-load. I never would have guessed at the amount of free reading material available. Here are only a few of the sites I found.......

Audio:
The Librivox organization states that their goal is "to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet." There are over 2,500 titles available on the site at present with more coming. Some are even available in French and German. http://librivox.org/newcatalog

FreeBooks http://www.freebooks.org/
1000+ Free Books, MP3 Audio Books

Print:
Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenburg.com/ is the place where you can download over 30,000 free ebooks, mostly classics,to read on your PC, iPhone, Kindle, Sony Reader or other portable device. No fee or registration is required, but they do ask that if you find Project Gutenberg useful,they would like you to donate a small amount so they can buy and digitize more books.

University of Pennsylvania

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
with a listing of over 35,000 books.

Many of these are classics, how-to and self improvement books. But they fill a need until you find that next road-side ...dealer.

Enjoy.