FREE eBooks!
January 23, 2007 by Phil Gons
I just downloaded and installed 87 free ebooks. Bible Explorer is on track to pass e-Sword in the amount of free content available. They are releasing 20 new titles every month.
Here are some of the books they are currently offering:
- A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
- A Treasury of Great Preaching
- Complete Works of Arminius
- Complete Works of EM Bounds
- Confessions of St. Augustine
- Creeds of Christendom
- Daily Light on the Daily Path
- Dictionary of Christian Biographies
- English Standard Version
- Five Points of Calvinism
- Four-Fold Gospel
- Fox’s Book of Martyrs
- Grace Abounding
- Hodge - A Commentary on 1 Corinthians
- Hodge - A Commentary on 2 Corinthians
- Hodge - A Commentary on Ephesians
- Holiness
- Holy War, The
- Institutes of the Christian Religion
- Luther’s 95 Theses
- Luther’s Commentary on Galatians
- Luther’s Larger and Smaller Catechism
- Systematic Theology
- Table Talk
- The Augsburg Confession (1530)
- The Belgic Confession of Faith
- The Canons of Dordt or Synod of Dort
- The Christian View of God and the World
- The Early Creeds
- The Heidelberg Catechism
- The Second Helvetic Confession
- The Sovereignty of God
- Treasury of David
- Westminster Confession of Faith
To get these books, simply:
- install Bible Explorer, which is a free download;
- check for updates under the Help menu to make sure you have the latest version;
- in the View menu click “Add-on Books…”;
- click Next;
- select “FREE Books” in the “Product Categories” drop down list;
- add as many as you want;
- start downloading; and
- check back frequently to see what else is available.
Update: Bible Explorer keeps an updated list of free books. So check here to see what’s available. Thanks to Derek for the tip.
HT: RejoiceSoftware’s “What’s New Review” Email
Quick question: how do you remember the e-books you have? Do you use LibraryThing to catalog these, too?
Good question. On more than one occasion I have forgotten that I already had a certain ebook. But I’m not so sure it’s entirely a problem with ebooks. I do the same with my print library, though not as often (maybe because of the visual element?). As our libraries grow, it becomes harder and harder to keep track of everything.
I plan to keep track of all my ebooks in LibraryThing. Currently, I have a small number of them cataloged there (ones with easily exportable ISBNs). Once I get some time, I would like to get them all cataloged. Logos is considering integrating a tool in their next major release that will allow a user to catalog all of his print and ebooks. If they do this, I may do that instead of (or in addition to, if the import/export is easy) LibraryThing.
Bible Explorer’s free library is continuing to grow — an always up-to-date list of free books is here, in case you’re interested: http://www.bible-explorer.com/fbe_scripts/free.cgi
When new free books are made available, they can be added to your library by going back to View, “Add-On Books.”
Thanks for the tip, Derek.
I love the idea of the free books as well! I’ve downloaded all of them, & I check back every weekend. WORDsearch has given us some incredible titles well worth reading! John Butler’s new free book Alliterated Sermon Outlines added to the list is a must have title for every pastor.
thank you for responding to my request