How Do You Read Fiction Books Online?
It’s much easier today than it once was to read books online for free. Although copyright laws prohibit websites from publishing newer books in their entirety online, many sites have emerged that feature complete books for which copyrights have expired. Visit Bibliomania (see Resources), a website that has thousands of ebooks, poems, short stories and more available to readers for free. The fiction list on Bibliomania is extensive, from “Anna Karenina” to “Wuthering Heights.” You can search for books on Bibliomania by genre and author, and read fiction by authors such as James Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe. Bibliomania adds new books every month, and the site encourages participation with message boards, author articles and interviews. Go to Project Gutenberg (see Resources), which bills itself as “the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.” Project Gutenberg has more than 25,000 free books (as of 2010) in its catalog, including al
