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Pallando writes: I've just discovered that the book publisher, Baen, has make quite a number of its books freely available online at the BaenFreeLibrary. Not just sample chapters. Complete books. Modern, GOOD science fiction and fantasy books from major authors. http://www.baen.com/library/titles.htm

For example:

There's also ProjectGutenberg at http://www.gutenberg.org/

In fact, doing a search, it looks like everyone is doing it.

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/lists.html
http://samizdat.mines.edu/
http://sultan.org/books/
Google is scanning a lot of stuff too - preface a search with 'book' to find some.

It seems like [Bruce Sterling's The Hacker Crackdown] has a lot to answer for. [Alternate URL because that one's not responding]

So who's reading them? Any ToothyWikizen willing to admit here to actually reading the things?

: As MoonShadow has said on a number of pages, he reads a lot of SF/F online, mostly from the MoshkowLibrary and from http://www.rusf.ru.

What have you read? How did you read it? (In bits, on a palm pilot, all in a rush, spread over days) Would you do it again?

: I read all of baen, on PC screen - each book usually taking a day or two. --Vitenka

CategoryBooks, CategoryComputing; see also OpenInfo/Resources