There are resources for free e-books out there. In this short article, I would like to highlight several possibilities for you.

Chess Composition Books

http://www.algonet.se/~ath/

This is a wonderful collection for the problems enthusiast. All in PDF (Adobe Acrobat). The last time I visited, there were 20 titles available, in print enhanced and reading enhanced versions.

Project Gutenberg

http://www.gutenberg.org/

The king of public domain texts (plain text and HTML mostly). Do an advanced search on the subject of "Chess" and you will find at least 5 useful books.

Knudsen Edition E-Books

http://www.ebook.echoz.com/

I would be remiss if I didn't plug my own little e-book publishing site. There are currently 7 free chess titles available, in WIN32 format and PDF.

There are also commercial sites which offer e-books, but that is beyond the scope of this article.

Happy reading!

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