Free downloads for NOOK?

I am on the Suffolk Wave site and a lot of the books are not available right now. Is this common? Where else can I look? What has the best selection? I also downloaded adobe and overdrive....what exactly is overdrive and what do I do with it?

Re: Free downloads for NOOK?

What kind of books are you looking for? Current bestsellers you have to wait for, just like with the regular copies at the library. I also have cards for NY Public Library (any NYS resident can get one, just have to go in person) and I paid $15 for 1 year access to the Free Library in Philadelphia, so I get on the waiting list at all of them and just dl from the first one that I can and remove myself from the others. NYS residents can also get Queens and Brooklyn library cards but you have to go in person, and if you get one of those they give you access to NYPL, but NYPL card doesn't give you access to Queens or Brooklyn.

Every week this summer BN is giving away copies of classics: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/free-classic-novel-ebooks/379002285/

These are all the free ebooks on BN

Every Friday they offer a free book on their Unbound Blog which is the same one that comes up in the Daily Free Friday offer on your Nook.

You can find free books on Borders, Kobo, Smashwords, eHarlequin (in you like romance)

If you know someone with a Nook who has a book you want they can lend it to you.

As I think of more sites I'll add them for you. There are a few Nook chatboards that you can check out to get more sources.

ETA: Books on the Knob
Finding Free ebooks

I got this list from one of the Nook chats:
Baen Books - DRM free sc-fi books available in EPUB and MOBI
Borders - Books available in ePub using Adobe Digital Editions
eBooks.com - eBooks available in DRM'd PDF, which will work on the nook (so we've been told)
eReader.com - A Barnes & Noble company (Some books DRM'd some not)
Feedbooks - A bunch of DRM free public domain books, really well formatted and available in ePub
Fictionwise.com - A Barnes & Noble company (Some book DRM'd some not)
Gutenberg Project - Public Domain books for free
kobo - Books available in ePub using Adobe Digital Editions
Manybooks.net - DRM free public domain works available for many formats, including PDF, ereader and epub
Powell's - ebooks in several formats, including Adobe DRM'd epub and ereader formats. A little confusingly, they still call ereader "palm reader" format.
Smashwords - Indie author's eBooks for sale, all available in DRM free ePub or PDF format
Sony eBook store - Some books available in ePub, which is compatible with the nook

http://online-novels.blogspot.com/2008/12/introduction.html Online Novels contains the titles of more than 1000 online books written by both published and unpublished authors who have made their work freely available on the internet. The novels listed here are organized by category, with brief descriptions taken from the websites on which they can be found.

http://www.bookdepository.com/free
Looks like it mainly PDFs, but still might be worth browsing through.

There's a great library website called http://www.truly-free.org/ - you can check out five books at a time. There's a lot to pick from!!

http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-eBookstore/

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