Free ebooks for Kindles & iPads/iPhones with Project Gutenberg

I was talking to a friend about Project Gutenberg the other day and realised that perhaps it isn’t as widely known as it should be, so here is a quick PSA.

If you, like my friend’s mum, got a Kindle or iPad/iPhone for Christmas, you can get lots of free books from places like Project Gutenberg. (There are other sites that do a similar thing, like Manybooks.net, but Project Gutenberg is apparently the biggest and the one I’m most familiar with.)

Project Gutenberg is an archive of 33,000 books which you can download to your new fancy device for free – including many, many classics – for example, the rather seasonal A Christmas Carol, the rather excellent Walden and the rather long War and Peace. (The observant will notice that the Kama Sutra is the most download book of the moment, between The Art of War into 6th place – so clearly ebook readers are more interesting in making love not war at the moment.)

I think if I liked classics more, I’d find the Kindle a lot more tempting than I already do – for the price of 20 classics bought new, I could buy a Kindle and access thousands. I’ll still keep resisting – I don’t need it – but it would definitely be more tempting.

If you already have a Kindle/iPad, it’s definitely something to check out.

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