Note: When this page was originally created, back in the early 2000s, I had a Palm device and was using its eBook Reader, so was building (or linking to) these freely-available ebooks. These days, I very much doubt there are many (any?) people still using a Palm and reading books in this format, but for sake of completeness I’m still hosting these files. Enjoy!
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Welcome to the page of free ebooks I’m offering for the free Palm eBook Reader. Why the Palm eBook Reader and not other eBook formats? Simple—it’s free, and they provide a utility for creating eBooks (using their own markup scheme, PML), also for free.
Now, I know Palm Digital Media is a great source for eBooks—more power to them—but I’m all about free (as in free beer), and there seems to be a real scarcity of freely available eBooks to download. To that end, I’m converting free works (primarily from Project Gutenberg) to the Palm Reader format to help correct this situation.
So, without further ado, here’s the list of free eBooks I have converted to the Palm Reader format thus far, and are available for download:
| Title | Author | Size | Download | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0wnz0red | Cory Doctorow | 48 kb | 0wnz0red.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 303 kb | 20000leagues.pdb | |
| A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | 83 kb | xmascarol.pdb | |
| A Place So Foreign | Cory Doctorow | 63 kb | foreign.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| A Place So Foreign and Eight More | Cory Doctorow | 245 kb | a_place_so_foreign.pdb | The collected set of Cory Doctorow’s short stories, which are also available here individually. |
| Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | 75 kb | alice.pdb | The classic children’s book that appeals to all ages. |
| Anne of Avonlea | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 258 kb | anne_of_avonlea.pdb | |
| Anne of Green Gables | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 295 kb | greengables.pdb | |
| Anne of Ingleside | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 293 kb | anne_of_ingleside.pdb | Converted by Charles N. Sublett |
| Anne of the Island | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 232 kb | anne_of_the_island.pdb | |
| Anne of Windy Poplars | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 254 kb | anne_windy_poplars.pdb | Converted by Charles N. Sublett |
| Anne’s House of Dreams | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 233 kb | annes_house_of_dreams.pdb | |
| Around the World in 80 Days | Jules Verne | 198 kb | 80days.pdb | |
| Autumn | David Moody | 210 kb | (File hosted offsite) | Free ebook offering from David Moody. Visit his official website at http://www.theinfected.co.uk/. |
| Chronicles of Avonlea | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 190 kb | chronicles_avonlea.pdb | Converted by Charles N. Sublett |
| Craphound | Cory Doctorow | 31 kb | craphound.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| Damaged Goods | R. John Callahan | 96 kb | (File hosted offsite) | A short story anthology by Rob Callahan, which he is generously offering for free under the Creative Commons license. |
| Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom | Cory Doctorow | 165 kb | (File hosted offsite) | Cory Doctorow’s first novel, which he just published and is releasing for free (in a variety of formats!) on his website. So whaddya know… an actual current book! Now if more authors would do this… |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | 433 kb | dracula.pdb | |
| Emma | Jane Austen | 459 kb | emma.pdb | |
| Further Chronicles of Avonlea | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 202 kb | further_avonlea.pdb | Converted by Charles N. Sublett |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | 298 kb | gullivers_travels.pdb | |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare | 103 kb | hamlet.pdb | The play’s the thing… |
| Hell-Bound Snowballs | R. John Callahan | 95 kb | (File hosted offsite) | The next ebook from Rob Callahan! |
| Home Again, Home Again | Cory Doctorow | 41 kb | homeagain.pdb | |
| Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 289 kb | huckfinn.pdb | Forget what you were force-fed in high school literature! This is a great follow-up to Tom Sawyer. |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne | 229 kb | journeyearth.pdb | |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare | 62 kb | macbeth.pdb | “Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” |
| Myths and Legends of Our Own Land | Charles M. Skinner | 457 kb | americanmyths.pdb | “Our Own Land” here refers to the United States. It’s a fun collection of American folklore and mythology. |
| Persuasion | Jane Austen | 239 kb | persuasion.pdb | |
| Peter Pan | J. M. Barrie | 136 kb | peterpan.pdb | Second star on the right, and straight on til morning… |
| Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | 357 kb | pandp.pdb | |
| Rainbow Valley | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 236 kb | rainbow_valley.pdb | |
| Return to Pleasure Island | Cory Doctorow | 34 kb | pleasure.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| Rilla of Ingleside | Lucy Maud Montgomery | 304 kb | rilla_of_ingleside.pdb | |
| Sense and Sensibility | Jane Austen | 348 kb | sense.pdb | |
| Shadow of the Mothaship | Cory Doctorow | 35 kb | mothaship.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | 251 kb | tarzan.pdb | |
| The Deerslayer | James Fenimore Cooper | 612 kb | deerslayer.pdb | |
| The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Oscar Wilde | 43 kb | happy_prince.pdb | |
| The Iliad | Homer | 404 kb | iliad.pdb | Old school. |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau | H. G. Wells | 128 kb | drmoreau.pdb | |
| The Machine Stops | E. M. Forster | 133 kb | the_machine_stops.pdb | E.M. Forster’s 1909 short story, converted and contributed by Ray Latiolais. |
| The Man Who Was Thursday | G. K. Chesterton | 177 kb | Thursday.pdb | This ebook was converted and contributed by Ben Gray. |
| The Night Before Christmas | Clement C. Moore | 2 kb | twas.pdb | |
| The Odyssey | Homer | 351 kb | odyssey.pdb | |
| The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 4 kb | theraven.pdb | Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore!” |
| The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | 12 kb | mariner.pdb | “God save thee, Ancient Mariner…” |
| The River War | Winston S. Churchill | 388 kb | riverwar.pdb | This book was converted and contributed by Richard Stauduhar. |
| The Scarlet Pimpernel | Baroness Orczy | 257 kb | scarletp.pdb | I read this when I was a teenager, and it’s a rollicking good adventure, the original masked hero. |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Robert Louis Stevenson | 74 kb | jekyllhyde.pdb | |
| The Super Man and the Bugout | Cory Doctorow | 36 kb | bugout.pdb | Short story from the collection A Place So Foreign and Eight More |
| The Time Machine | H. G. Wells | 94 kb | timemachine.pdb | |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 178 kb | warworlds.pdb | |
| Through the Looking Glass | Lewis Carroll | 84 kb | lookingglass.pdb | The frumious Bandersnatch! |
| Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | 209 kb | tomsawyer.pdb | Quintessential Mark Twain. |
| Treasure Island | Robert Louis Stevenson | 195 kb | treasureisland.pdb | |
| Tskukumogami | R. John Callahan | 51 kb | (File hosted offsite) | A novella by Rob Callahan, which he is generously offering for free under the Creative Commons license. |
| Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 332 kb | walden.pdb |