I'm an avid reader, I always have been since I was a little kid, even with me working all the time, I can still go through a handful of books per week easily. This doesn't mean I can always go out to buy one in a real store however. As well as reading for pleasure, I also read for business reasons, books on do-it-yourself topics, marketing strategies, photography tips, health books or anything else I can get my hands on!

The great thing about reading all these books is the fact that I don't have to pay one red cent! Yes, there are several sites online that will allow you to either view or download free e-books online. Most of these sites offer a very large variety of free e-books, so you don't have to worry if they have what you want or not. Here are a few sites you can visit if you are looking to download free e-books:

Free-ebooks.net - Number one online source for free e-book downloads

E-book directory - Over 20,000 free e-books ranging from computer, self-improvement, literature, business, publishing, children, Internet, mind and body, home and garden, poetry and more.

GetFreeBooks - Another really terrific site for free e-books

PlanetPdf - This is a good site if your looking for entertaining authors or titles such as Grimms Fairy Tales, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, Charles Dickens, Jules Verne and much more!

EbookLobby - Another great site to find numerous categories including arts in photography, biographies, business and investing, health, law, food and wine, computers, home and garden, children's books, entertainment, and much more!

Once you find a site as well as the book of your choice. You will most likely download it, when you click on the link a "download now" dialogue box will pop up asking for permission. Make sure you place the e-book somewhere you can find it later on, such as your desktop. On my computer I have a file that I use just for the e-books I download. Once you download it, it's yours to keep forever. And you can read it how ever many times you want or take as long as you want to read it! By the way on some of these sites you may need to make an account, but all the sites I listed above are completely 100% free and you can also download as many books as you want with these sites with out any limitations. Have fun with these sites! They should keep you busy for quite awhile!