Read an E-Book Week, Day 5

I took day 4 off to read. After all, isn't that the point?

This first one isn't free, but a bargain buy of a children's adventure story (looks to be aimed at the tween crowd, as it is 330 pages in the print version and like all good fairy tales has darker side), a category where it can be a bit harder to find good ebooks: The Legend of Witch Bane by Kevis Hendrickson. It's been getting great reviews and looks like a good one for those whose kid's have been left behind in this weeks reading links.

For the slightly older teens, Harper Collins has a free read of The Vampire Diaries (online only), with the full text of The Awakening and The Struggle. They also have a sneak peak inside The Return: Nightfall, the latest in the series. I've tried their free reader before and mostly it motivated me to go buy the book instead, if it was interesting, as reading 500 pages on a backlit screen would make my eyes bleed. These particular titles are only available in paperback - so if you want real ebook versions of them, make sure to click on the titles, then on the Request on Kindle link below the cover pictures. In the meantime, these free reads will only be online until March 27th, so you'd better read quickly.

Tor has posted a new freebie, Charles de Lint’s Spiritwalk. It's a little late in Read an E-Book Week and the "monthly free read" doesn't quite come out monthly anymore, but free is free (you do have to register and log in before hitting the download links). Spiritwalk (1992) is the sequel to Moonheart (which is available in ereader format at Fictionwise). Spiritwalk is currently out of print, although Tor has a trade paperback reissue scheduled for mid-2010.

If you haven't picked up Mars Girl yet, you should definitely download a copy and be prepared for some laughs. You can get pretty much any format or read it online, along with "Webisodes", small scenes cut from the final book (just like the deleted scenes on most DVD's these days).

The Textile Planet, another humorous science-fiction novel, is now available as a free ebook! Download the PDF version or send an email to get another format (.html, .lit, .lrf, .mobi, and .rtf) direct from author Sue Lange

David Sklar (Shadow of the Antlered Bird) has a number of free fiction and poetry ebooks/ereads and satirical articles available.

Plough Books in England has more than 80 Christian/Spiritual titles in nine languages at no charge. All are in PDF format.

For a change of pace, be sure to get this month's free audiobook (hey, it's a book and it's "e", even if you don't "read" it) from Christian Audio. They have a new free audiobook each month, with your choice of MP3 (Kindle compatible) or WMV format. This month it's Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life (Unabridged) by Donald S. Whitney. Just use the coupon code (it's MAR2009 this month) and you won't have to enter any other payment info (you do have to create an account and they send you emails each month to notify you of the new freebie).