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There are some sites on the Internet with completely free eBooks: no registration; no cost; just download or read online. (and no piracy!)
Most of these books will be in the Public Domain meaning they are old and the copyright has expired. So, these will be a little more challenging than modern books.
Project Gutenberg invented the eBook, having started in 1971 long before the Internet. In the early days, they hand typed every book. They have about 60,000 titles and are available in several eBook formats. Many of the other public domain sites get their books from here.
You have to surf around a little to find your book but they are easy to download. Available in the three main eBook formats.
Audio books! This site has public domain books in MP3 format, read by volunteers from around the world.
Open library is by Internet Archive and is the official public site for many organizations. It has public domain books but you'll have to search around a little. You don't need to create an account but you might want to, since this allows you to borrow books that are not public domain.
Be sure not to miss:
Read.gov commissioned an A-list of kids' authors and illustrators who wrote a book, one after the other, picking up where the other left off, every two weeks, for a year.
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These sites are not as easy as the ones above but you can still find free eBooks.
Google Books mostly gives information about books, not the books themselves. But if you go to "Advanced Search" and select "Full view only" you will find books you can read for free.
This is an index site rather than a collection, meaning that they send you to another site to get the book. But they do a good job of finding books that require no sign-in.
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