Get Free eBooks from the World eBook Fair

At the World eBook Fair, which runs from July 4 through August 4, you can download for free more than 1 million books, which includes free sheet music. These are all works in the public domain, but you can find a lot of treasures there.

This year, the theme of the fair is Own Your Own Library and it promises 1 million-plus books free for the taking. The sheer number and the range and variety of titles make the World eBook Fair a veritable treasure trove for book lovers.

As of midnight CDT July 4, 2008, these were the approximate numbers:

100,000-plus from Project Gutenberg
500,000-plus from the World Public Library
450,000-plus from the Internet Archive
160,000-plus from eBooks About Everything
17,000-plus from International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP—sheet music)
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1,227,000-plus Total