You can search for books by author, book title or keyword. The search can be narrowed down by format (Epub, PDF, Mobipocket, Palm, Kindle etc), store name, and price. There is also an option to limit your search only to free eBook sites.

Additionally to providing you with eBooks search eBooks.Addall has a number of sister sites where you can search and find best deals for printed books, used books and magazines.

Features:

• Search and compare eBook prices across multiple online bookstores.
• Searches over 20 major and independent eBook stores including Amazon Kindle, eBooks.com, Booksonboard, Fictionwise, Borders.com and many others.
• Narrow down your search by format (Epub, Pdf, Mobipocket, Microsoft, eReader, Kindle, Palm, Sony, eBookwise, HTML and Audio)
• Sort results by author, title and price.
• In print book, Used book, Magazine search option is also available.
• Free, no sign up needed

Check out eBooks.Addall @ www.ebooks.addall.com

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• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• Project Gutenberg : The Ultimate Source of Free eBooks
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

Features:

• Free science ebooks (textbooks, lecture notes) in different subjects.
• Read ebooks online or download them in PDF format.
• All listed texts are offered legally on the site and have been authorized by their respective authors and publishers.
• Similar sites: Project Gutenberg, Wowio and eBooksDB. Also check out earlier MakeUseOf article on The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks.

Check out ScienceBooksOnline @ www.sciencebooksonline.info

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• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

This site is in many ways similar to previously profiled PDF search tools like PDFgeni and Data-Sheet but also has some extra features like previewing number of pages document has, language, related tags and creation date.

Features:

• Search only PDF files online.
• Preview files before downloading. View number of pages, language of the files, related tags and creation date.
• Free, no registration needed.
• You may be also interested in our article about best sites to get free document templates.

Check out PDFind @ www.pdfind.com

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• Data-Sheet : PDF Search Engine
• ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• Google Document Search Utility

To create your own ebook simply register on the site and follow 4 easy steps:

1. Enter the URL of the site or feed you want to use and click “Select Content” button. Zinepal will get the information from the source and present it on one page.
2. Select the articles you need and click “I’m Done- Create My Zine” button.
3. At this point you will be taken to the page where you can further customize each entry.
4. When done customizing click on “Create My Zine” button to get the ebook in PDF or Kindle/Mobipocket format.

Zinepal has some other cool features like ability to setup Zinepal to regularly deliver a PDF with new stories from selected feeds, saving template settings for future use, browsing and downloading ebooks created by others and some more.

Feature overview:

• Free ebook creator for creating PDF ebooks and magazines from web content.
• Create as many ebooks as you like.
• Easily customize ebook’s logo, title and text.
• Option to hide authors, sources and dates.
• Receive PDF ebooks from selected blog feeds ona regular basis.
• Browse and download ebooks created by others.
• Free and simple to use.
• Similar sites: MyEbook and eBookHood.

If you just looking for some books to read on your ebook reader, check out Project Gutenberg, ManyBooks, Wowio and PDFgeni.

Check out Zinepal @ www.zinepal.com

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• TextOnPhone : Over 30.000 eBooks for Your iPhone
• eBookHood: Convert Text, Webpages, RSS Feeds to iPod Format
• ZAPReader : Practise Speed Reading Online
• YourVersion: Scans Web for Stuff You Find Interesting
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.

Your visitors are able to click through listed items and read item descriptions and pricing. Tagito also integrates PayPal. As a result when someone buys something from you the funds are directly sent to your PayPal account.

The site also provides you with a dashboard using which you can monitor your sales and see how well you’re adoing compared to others.

Best of all, there are no set listing fees, you get charged 10% (of the selling price) only if the item sells.

Apart from selling your documents and other type of digital downloads, you can browse Tagito site and check out listings of other users. Users may browse listed items by categories.

Features:

• Sell documents and digital content (anything you create on your computer) online.
• There is no limit on the number of items you can sell.
• Monitor your sales and compare with top-earning users.
• No set listing fees (only 10% of the price on sold items).
• Browse stuff sold by other members and see latest listings.

Check out Tagito @ www.tagito.com

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• Venjuvo: Get Cash for Your Old Electronics and Gadgets
• ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

There is also a library section that lists user published ebooks. Anyone can browse those books by popularity, categories and view them online on a sleek ebook viewer.

Features:

• Free browser-based ebook publishing platform.
• Upload and publish your ebooks online with just one click.
• Create and publish novels, children’s books, magazines, comics, brochures, instruction manuals etc.
• Include beautiful colors and graphics, link to videos, audio, documents, images and flash files from the ebook.
• Nothing to install or download.
• Join and interact with the community.
• Browse ebooks published by other members and get feedback on your own ebooks.
• Over 1100 published ebooks.
• Browse ebooks by popularity or category (Business, History, Travel etc).
• Read ebooks you like online.
• Register to post comments and create your own ebook.

Check out MyEbook @ www.myebook.com

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• OpenZine: Create Online Magazines For Free
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• Wordds: Read Articles from Top Magazines On Mobile
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks

Features:

• Search for PDF files and ebooks.
• Download as many files as you like.
• No sign-up needed.
• Similar websites: PDFgeni, PDF and Ebook Search Engine and Data-Sheet.

Check out PDFse @ www.pfdse.com

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• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• eBookHood: Convert Text, Webpages, RSS Feeds to iPod Format
• Data-Sheet : PDF Search Engine

Moreover, you can also check out the recent additions (under ‘New Ebooks’) and most popular books (the most downloaded ones), rate and leave comments.

For more ebook resources I highly recommend you to go through our excellent round up article “The Best 6 Sites to Get Free Ebooks“.

Check out WitGuides @ www.witguides.com

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• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• eBookHood: Convert Text, Webpages, RSS Feeds to iPod Format

1. Search and download ebooks for free. There are no restrictions on the number of ebooks you can download.

2. Convert text and webpages to iPod and other portable device readable formats. You can convert webpages, basic text, text files and RSS feeds.

Features:

• Convert plain text files, webpages and RSS feeds to ebooks for your portable device.
• Accepted text file formats: TXT and RTF.
• To convert RSS feeds you need to register.
• Search, browse and download free ebooks to read on your portable device.
• Download as many books as you like.
• See recently added and most popular ebooks on eBookHood.com

Check out eBookHood @ www.eBookHood.com

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• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• TextOnPhone : Over 30.000 eBooks for Your iPhone
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator

- search the web and find free mp3s online
- search for videos on video sharing sites
- search images
- search for files on FTPs
- search web for PDF e-books
- search Rapidshare content
- search torrents

All of these search tools can be accessed in different tabs on a single page.

It shows the links to the files on the respective sites. This could be a very useful search site for sure.

In the following screenshot, I searched the rapidshare tab for the query ‘Dark Knight’ and it immediately showed the related downloadable files in Rapidshare.

Certainly a handy search tool. It is also available in different languages. Give it a shot.

Check out Njouba @ www.njouba.com ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• ShareMiner: Search Web for Files
• Usniff: Search Multiple Torrent Sites Simultaneously
• TorrentSurf: Search 14 Leading Torrent Engines At Once
• TorrentMetasearch: Search Many Torrent Sites At Once
• TorrentFly: Search 13 Torrent Sites at Once

You can either search from the website directly or get the provided search plugin and add PDFgeni search to Firefox search bar.

Features:

• Find and download books and other types of PDF files online.
• Download and save books as PDF.
• Preview PDF files online.
• No sign-up needed.
• Other similar search tools that were covered earlier are PDF and Ebook Search Engine and Data-Sheet.

Check out PDFgeni @ www.pdfgeni.com

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• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• eBookHood: Convert Text, Webpages, RSS Feeds to iPod Format
• Data-Sheet : PDF Search Engine

From the website:

Most of the Internet search engines look through the contents of all web pages, while ShareMiner looks through the names of files available on specific websites that are likely to contain the file you are looking up … ShareMiner.com allows you to find an actual file that you can download.

When searching for files ShareMiner scans popular file sharing networks like Rapidshare and Megaupload. So if you are looking for some popular files there is a good chance you’ll find them here.

Features:

• Search web for files.
• Download and save files to your PC.
• Filter search results by type like software, games, videos, music, docs & ebooks or archives (ZIP/RAR).
• Add ShareMiner Search to your Firefox search bar.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Other similar search engines include TotMe, FilesTube, Rapidshare1 and FileSnatcher.

Check out ShareMiner @ www.shareminer.com

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• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• Njouba: Search MP3s, Books, FTPs, Rapidshare & Torrents
• Tagito: Sell Documents and Digital Content Online
• Shufs: Search Files on MegaUpload and Mediashare
• Rapidzearch: Search Top File Sharing Websites For Files

Features:

• Find and download data sheets, reports, ebooks etc.
• Save downloaded documents as PDF.
• See recent and most popular datasheet searches.
• No sign-up or registration needed.

Check out Data-Sheets @ www.data-sheet.net

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• PDFind: PDF Document Search Engine
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool
• DocuFarm: Online Document Search and Viewer
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks

Features:

• Read eBooks on your iPhone or iPod Touch.
• More than 30.000 books and novels available. Read as many books a you like.
• Add shortcuts to your home screen in order to jump directly to the book of your choice.
• automatically takes you to the page you stopped at during the the last session.
• Customize: change font type, size, color, and apply different backgronds.
• Add personal notes to any page.
• Cashing feature that preloads the pages in advance making the service faster.
• Add favorite books to your reading list.
• See recommended books, featured books, book of the day and most influential books.

Demo Video

For someone who can’t afford a pricey iPhone there are some alternatives. Try BooksInMyPhone – it allows users to download and read books on pretty much any mobile phone. FeedBooks is another one.

Check out TextOnPhone @ www.textonphone.com

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• eBookHood: Convert Text, Webpages, RSS Feeds to iPod Format
• Zinepal: Online Ebook Creator
• VenueM: Turn Podcasts to iPhone-Friendly Websites
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• textPlus: Send Free Text From iPhone & iPod Touch

Apart from downloading ebooks there is an option to upload your own content and and let FeedBooks users evaluate it. Furthermore, there is a great feature that lets you turn your favorite RSS Feeds into a PDF file that can be viewed on your mobile device.

Features:

• Search, browse and download ebooks to your mobile phone or portable book reader.
• Download as many books as you like. There are thousands of books you can choose from.
• ebooks are in universal e-paper platform and compatible with all e-paper devices.
• Browse books by well known authors, see which books are downloaded most, most commented and so on.
• Turn any RSS Feed into a PDF file that can be downloaded in different formats.
• Publish and share your own content with others.
• Coming soon: Create customized newspapers from RSS feeds.

Check out FeedBooks @ www.feedbooks.com

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• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• Wattpad : Read and Share Books on your Mobile
• Project Gutenberg : The Ultimate Source of Free eBooks
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google

You can search books by author name, title and even search within the contents of the book. Or if you are not sure where to start then you might want to check out top 100 most downloaded books for the previous day.

Features:

• Search books catalog by author name or title.
• Advanced search: Filter books by subject, language, category, filetype, etc.
• Browse books by popularity, book author, title, language or recently posted.
• Download ebooks directly from the website or via FTP.
• Download certain ebooks in HTML, plain text, plucker (mobile) or audio format (human-read).
• Read ebooks on your Palm, PDA or smartphone.
• Books available in Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.
• Get RSS feeds for recently added books.

Please keep in mind, while the service is leagl in the United States it may not be the case for the some other countries. So make sure to check the copyright laws of your country before downloading a book.

Go to Project Gutenberg @ www.gutenberg.org

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• ThoughtAudio: Lots of Free Full Audio Books
• PDFse: Search for PDF Files on Google
• PDFgeni: Comprehensive eBook Search Tool

Features:

• Downlod free eBooks to read on your computer or mobile device (PDA, iPhone, iPod, cell phone etc.).
• Search for ebooks or Browse by category, latest additions, popular, recent downloads, etc.
• Most of the ebooks can be downloaded in several different fomats.
• Over 20.000 eBooks available and more added every day.
• Some ebooks also available in audio format (see screenshot).
• Tips on how to convert PDF ebook to make it compatibe with your mobile device.
• It’s 100 free. No sign up or email required.

Go to ManyBooks @ [ www.manybooks.net ]

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• Wowio : Download Copyrighted eBooks for Free. Legally.
• WitGuides: Find And Download Ebooks
• TextOnPhone : Over 30.000 eBooks for Your iPhone
• SmokinApps: Discover Latest Mobile Applications
• ScienceBooksOnline: Free Science eBooks

How does it work?

• 1. Find the book/s you want and add it to download queue.
• 2. When you are ready to get your books, go to the ‘Queue’ section.
• 3. Click on the “Gee Ebooks” and download button will appear next to each book.

Features

• Search, find and download copyrighted ebooks.
• Browse books by popularity or genre (architecture, art, classics, computers, college textbooks, fiction etc.)
• Limitation: You are allowed to download at most three books/day and not to exceed 30/month.
• Due to licensing restrictions service available only in United States.

[Video] Wowio demo

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Basic Features

• Download, submit and rate ebooks (sign-up required)
• Browse ebooks by category (Databases, Operating Systems, Programming, Graphic and Media, Web, Cretifications )
• Video Training: video books

Go to www.ebooksdb.net (the link was deactivated as the site seem to be no longer online. You can still give it a try though.

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• Ziipa: Web 2.0 Directory
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