Trying out a new Kindle or Nook e-reader?  Looking for free e-books to download? Now, the Hancock County Library System has compiled a listing of free e-books on the Internet available for download. These resources can be used on an e-book reader, such as Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader or an Android Phone or I-Phone, IPad, laptop or just a regular computer. Simply click on the item to go to their webpage.

Booklending
Kindle lending was launched by Amazon.com in December, 2010. Any Kindle book that has lending enabled can by one Kindle user to another for 14 days. At the end of the 14 days, the title is automatically transferred back to the book owner's Kindle.

Digital Book Index
This site provides links to more than 165,000 full-text digital books. It supports IPad, Kindle and Nook readers. The site also includes classic children's books.

Free E-Books
This site requires registration for standard memberships, which are free. It offers unlimited access to e-books in HTML format and access to five e-books every month in PDF or TXT formats.

Google
This site offers nearly 3 million free e-books from the public domain. Some of the most popular free classics can be found by browsing in the Google store under the Free Classics shelf. Google Books stores the user's library in the digital cloud, so books can be read on just about any device with an Internet connection.

Gutenberg
This site permits the user to download more than 33,000 free e-books to be read on a PC, IPad, Kindle or other portable device. All e-books can be freely downloaded and no registration is required.

Inkmesh
Inkmesh is a search engine that makes it easier to find free e-books for the Kindle, IPhone, Sony Reader, Nook and other devices. It includes more than 3,500 promotional e-books that appear to be by lesser-known authors of fiction and nonfiction.

International Children's Digital Library
This site includes all sorts of digital books with children in mind.

Open Library
This site contains more than 1 million books and is part of the Internet Archives. The menu has a button in which the user can search by e-books only or by the actual physical book. Clikc on the READ symbol next to the book for easy access.