Thousands of free books easily synced across all of your devices, automatically.
Kobo is an ebook store with applications offered for Windows, Mac and Linux.
On every platform the reading experience is clean and simple.
Kobo is a line of electronic reading devices connected to a store, similar to the Amazon Kindle.
This makes sense; publishers need to make money somehow.
Some of these are in the public domain because of their age; others are offered free.
Syncing books and bookmarks across devices is automatic, giving Kobo a slight edge over other platforms.
What It Is
Fire up Kobo Desktop.
Need more than five books?
you might also find a variety of free books.
Free Books
Scroll down in the store and you’ll eventually see a banner for free ebooks.
Click this and you’ll be presented with a variety of free titles.
These will range from new books that are free to promote others to literary classics.
Remember: any book with a blue “Download” button where the price should be is free.
Download
Want to get started?
Windows and Mac users candownload Kobo here.
If you’re a Linux user you canrequest a download here, or simplydownload Kobo for Ubuntulike I did.
Want Kobo on your smartphone?Check here.
Didn’t Borders Go Bankrupt?
You may be wondering: isn’t the Kobo Reader a dying platform since Borders announced its bankruptcy?
As it turns out, no.
The Borders Desktop that comes with Kobo Readers in the United States?
It’s just a re-packaged Kobo desktop, though inferior in some ways.
The Borders Desktop, for example, doesn’t support newspaper subscriptions; Kobo Desktop does.
I’m hoping that future features added will include automatedInstapapersubscriptions.
