For the bookworms and wordsmiths out there I wanted to share a great site I recently found, www.readprint.com. The purpose of this site is to offer over 8,000 free online versions of books (fiction and non-fiction), essays, plays, poetry, and short stories. So you can read to your heart’s content, without having to go out to the bookstore and buy the book.

Once you get to Read Print you’ll notice 4 major search options to choose from; Online Books, Authors, Quotes, and Volunteer. Online Books will show you the more popular books accessed as well as top authors to narrow down your search. Authors just allows you to search by author. Quotes is a neat section where you can look up famous lines from great writers, and volunteer is all about sharing the word of the great benefits of Read Print to people you know.

Other cool things to consider with this site, they have a reading mode! Though still seemingly in its beta stage of development it does the trick. Once you’ve found the book/novel you want to read you can click on “reading mode” and the rest of the site is blacked out so all you see is the text from what you’re reading. It tries eliminating distractions on what would normally deter you from getting through the first page of words online. 

You don’t have to sign up to take advantage of the perks of reading volumes of great novels for free. This site is very social too; allowing you to share the page or book you’re reading with followers and friends.

- By J. Mason