@htaccess:  Another great post.  I'm not familiar with openlibrary.org or archive.org but they look like great resources.  I'll have to look those over when I have more time to get into them.

We have a page for eBooks in our Resources section with a lot of book links from Project Gutenberg but we've not taken it as far as we would like.  It's always been our intention to link from the novel pages to those as well but we never got around to getting them all done.  I'd love to expand that section and the sites you've listed look like a great way to do it.

As with everything here it all comes down to time.  Adding links to the DB is not a big deal; We've got a data table for those already.  The issues is the research time.  I'm sure there are lots of free eBooks out there for the books/authors in our DB, especially now that we've added so many old classics from the lists, but finding them is a problem.  I'm getting stretched a little thin on time with the other updates around the site.

Of course, if you, or anybody else for that matter, want to volunteer some time to do the research we're in business.  All I need is a list of titles and links to go with them, maybe in a spreadsheet if you want to get fancy, and I can dump them into the DB. 

Let me know if anyone is interested in helping out.  We can do a skype session to discuss if needed.

An interesting notion.  It looks like we can source the eBooks from multiple sites too and I'm not sure I want every novel page going out to check multiple sites on the off chance there is something there every time the page loads.  Seems like that might affect load time which is already a concern for me.  There's a lot of stuff on those pages as is with the ads and blog links etc. already going out to the web.

I'd like to automate some of these things but I don't have the coding skills to do all that so I'm focused on what I can do with what I've got.  I'm certainly willing to investigate options though if you want to have a discussion about it.