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Pubish your own ebooks for kindle, iPad etc..."Sigil runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. It's free. It looks a lot like a word processor. Simply by copying-and-pasting text from other sources or importing HTML, you can make an e-book in the open-standards ePub format. All of the major e-readers accept this format, except for the Kindle. In which case, after you've generated your ePub from Sigil, you can use Calibre to convert it to the Kindle-friendly MOBI format."

"With more than 25,000 titles, Project Gutenberg is widely be considered the ultimate source for free books online. The site has tens of thousands of volunteers, which means that new books are constantly being added to Gutenberg's online catalog. "

free periodicals dating back to the 19th century

"Download free books and texts. The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. Try the archive's site OpenLibrary for an interface to the published books on archive.org and links to other online book collections. This collection is open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses. Check our FAQ for more information. "