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.
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Phil Gons says
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.
Matthew Hoskinson says
Quick question: how do you remember the e-books you have? Do you use LibraryThing to catalog these, too?
Phil Gons says
Thanks for the tip, Derek.
Derek says
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.”
Nathan Parker says
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.
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thank you for responding to my request
Nathan says
Where can I find and download the “Complete Works of EM Bounds on prayer? Thanks, Nathan
Aaron says
bible explorer is great. but does anyone know how to add an NIV bible to the library for free?
i mean, i already have an NIV ebook on my computer, so i do not want to buy it again. so i want to know if there is anyway that i can get it for free or add my own ebook to its library
Wade says
This is a great post, thank you for sharing such valuable information with us. I didn’t know about Bible Explorer will check it out!