A Handy List of Legal Videos, eBooks, Music, and More Online
This is my list of free and legal stuff online that I’ve collected over the past few years.
eBooks
Project Gutenberg is my personal favorite for free reading material. They currently have 19,000 books online, ready for you to read.
Baen Free Library has many free copies from Baen books’ collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy books.
The famed Olympia Press has many free and $1 download erotic fiction ebooks that are free from DRM.
Tech Books offers free programming and computer science ebooks.
Modern Jesus Army offers free ebooks on Christianity.
Project Aon has made available their popular Lone Wolf gamebooks.
Amazing Facts is a Christian site that offers free ebooks on various topics.
The Writings of Geerhardus Vos project is attempting to make available all the uncollected writing of Vos.
Video
The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in their collections. It’s the most popular and most extensive site around.
Entertainment Magazine Online has roughly 200 movies that are now in the public domain.
imovies offers public domain movies for download or streaming and has an RSS feed.
Ubu offers a good selection of arthouse or experimental films, which are either in the public domain or are authorized by its creators.
Audio
LibriVox provides free audio books that are in the public domain in mp3 or ogg formats.
Public Domain Music has links to music, sound effects, sheet music, and MIDI music that are in the public domain or are royalty free.
Partners in Rhyme offers sound effects that are royalty free or in the public domain.
Images
PDPhoto offers free stock photos in the public domain.
Gimp-savvy has more than 27,000 images collected from three sources (NASA, NOAA and FWS).
Bittorrent
etree shares live concert recordings from trade friendly artists.
Public Domain Torrents offers movies via bittorrent.
Linux Torrents offers Linux and BSD distros.
LinuxTracker has a list of the many different Linux distros available.
Software
Freeware Files has a little bit of everything.
Games
GameHippo has over 1,000 games for free.
Freeoldies has many abandonware games.
Freeware Files‘ list of games.
Full Games has many free games and demos of new games.
The Daily Click has homemade games for free.
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