how to download an ebook for free

The best method is to search google. Let me tell you how. Most of the free sites, store these book at free hosting sties like rapidshare.com. So, go to google and type this:

download "C++ in 21 days" site:rapidshare.com

or

download "C++ in 21 days" intext:rapidshare.com

Well, the first query gives you links to all the pages on the rapidshare.com which have the words “C++ in 21 days”. The point of inserting the name of the book in “” is that then Google searches for the exacts words. Else, it would skip the word “in” (it hardly matters) AND will randomly search pages where there are the rest of the words (C++, 21, Days). ah, Google.
The second query will give you LINKS to rapidshare.com pages. Links will be on some other site. It may be a blog site or whatever.

Both the methods will yield a bit different results, but am sure you’ll get the books.

Another method other than googling your book is to use torrents. Though using torrents you won’t get full speed (For eg. if you have a 32kBps connection, you’ll get something around 24-28kBps. Nothing more than that.). First, download utorrent (download now size:263kB). Then, go to any torrent downloading site ( mininova.org, btjunkie.org, demonoid.com, etc) and in the search field enter the name of the book you want to download. Read the comments first to make sure the torrent is ok, and has good number of seeders. Download the torrent and open it in utorrent. Let it download the file.

Note: This is meant for educational purposes only.  We do not encourage and/or promote, in any way, the website(s) that host these ebooks. Please buy the original books if you want to read them.

Places to get FREE Ebooks.

I was searching for a book so that i could prepare for my Practical Exam, and well, obviously free E-books. I get the same book online for free which I’d get in hardcopy for some Rs.400-500! Or even more. Nah, don’t wanna spend that much. So here’s a small list of the places from where you can get books for free. No registration required or anything of that sort. Enjoy!

Flazx.com – A very good collection of books is available here. Most of the best selling books are available for free download. Books are uploaded to rapidshare and other file hosting services mainly.

freetechbooks.com – Though never had the need to go to this site, cause flazx has most of the books i need. I stumbled upon this site. If anyone tried/tries it, please comment on how it is.

Wikibooks.org – Of the people, by the people, for the people. People create books here themselves, they edit and they read it. They’ve got plenty of books though. Here’s the complete list of books they have.

Project Gutenberg – Well, this one is mainly for cultural books. I guess. You can get Shakespear books here, etc. etc. Pardon me, I don’t read english novels so i don’t know many authors. You can search here if you need any litarature book.