Doakio https://doakio.com SaaS Technical Documentation Experts - SaaS Technical Support Centers Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:30:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.2 https://doakio.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Doakio-32x32.png Doakio https://doakio.com 32 32 Top 5 Social Media Platforms that Support Video Sharing in 2021 https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-social-media-platforms-that-support-video-sharing-in-2021/ https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-social-media-platforms-that-support-video-sharing-in-2021/#respond Thu, 09 Sep 2021 18:33:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=19232 Using a data-driven approach, we’ve uncovered the best social media platforms that support video sharing. Instead of using a subjective ordering of “Best” tools, this…

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]]> Using a data-driven approach, we’ve uncovered the best social media platforms that support video sharing. Instead of using a subjective ordering of “Best” tools, this article is based on intensive research of more than 20 social media platforms. All tool features and company attributes were compared and contrasted to come up with these top 5.

It is important to look at your own interests and needs when deciding on a platform. You may come up with a different selection of top social media platforms that support video sharing. We highly suggest you participate in our custom social media platforms survey. This survey allows you to layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature. When complete, you’ll automatically receive a free custom report.

We trust that this publication will save you much time in locating a tool that fits your particular use case. We’ve also collected domain authority data which serves as a good indicator of overall popularity.

We found 12 social media platforms that support video sharing. We list the top five here, along with three runners up.

Remember to check out our original research publication on Social Media Alternatives that is always kept up-to-date. If you notice any social media platforms or features that we have left out, please let us know in the comments below.

So without further delay, here is our evidence-backed ordered listing of the top five social media platforms that support video sharing:

  1. Facebook
  2. VK
  3. LinkedIn
  4. MeWe
  5. Hello

    6. Runners up:

  6. USA.Life
  7. Spreely
  8. Woddal

Top Five Social Media Platforms that Support Video Sharing


Facebook


Facebook

Facebook Comparison Details

Free trial: Not Available

Pricing: Not Available

Feature summary: Enjoy connecting with family, friends and others using photos, videos and more.

Age of Software/Company: 24.3 Yrs

Business Score: 7.72

Software Score: 47.68

Distinctive features:

  • Live Streaming
  • Real Time Video Calls
  • Real Time Voice Calls

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Mention and Tagging
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • Follow and Subscribe
  • Fact-Checking
  • File Sharing
  • Real Time Voice Calls
  • Real Time Video Calls
  • Live Streaming


    • Many companies utilize Facebook for business development. Though many users have concerns with data-privacy and Facebook censorship, this social media platform has a very large following.



    VK


    VK

    VK Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Very popular in Russia, VK provides efficient communication tools that enable people to connect to services, companies and other people.

    Age of Software/Company: 14.8 Yrs

    Business Score: 7.53

    Software Score: 48.09

    Distinctive features:

    • Real Time Video Calls
    • Real Time Voice Calls

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Platform Moderation
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Mention and Tagging
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • Follow and Subscribe
  • Private Messaging
  • File Sharing
  • Schedule Future Posts
  • Real Time Voice Calls
  • Real Time Video Calls


    • VK is short for VKontakte (in contact) and is mainly used by people who speak Russian. While some users report poor customer service and other issues, VK is fast and user friendly.



    LinkedIn


    LinkedIn

    LinkedIn Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Provides an effective online site for people to find employment by posting resumes and CV's, viewing employer-posted jobs, and networking with professionals.

    Age of Software/Company: 18.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 7.5

    Software Score: 41.72

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • Image Messaging
  • Platform Moderation
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Mention and Tagging
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • Follow and Subscribe
  • Private Messaging
  • Fact-Checking
  • File Sharing


    • Users enjoy LinkedIn for its effectiveness in finding employment. There is the occasional fake job posting but the job alert feature lets users know when there is an available job that matches their skill set / location.



    MeWe


    MeWe

    MeWe Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Provides user-friendly features, dedicated newsfeeds, control over what is shared, and users maintain ownership of their content.

    Age of Software/Company: 5.5 Yrs

    Business Score: 6.06

    Software Score: 45.72

    Distinctive features:

    • No Advertisements
    • Real Time Video Calls
    • Real Time Voice Calls

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Platform Moderation
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • Private Messaging
  • Fact-Checking
  • File Sharing
  • Real Time Voice Calls
  • Real Time Video Calls
  • No Advertisements


    • Owned by Sgrouples, in California, MeWe is popular due to it’s small amount of content moderation, users ability to customize their profile for each group that they join, and integrating voice into messages.



    Hello


    Hello

    Hello Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: A mobile app that connects people with shared interests, far away and locally.

    Age of Software/Company: 5.1 Yrs

    Business Score: 6.23

    Software Score: 35.81

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • Image Messaging
  • Platform Moderation
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Private Messaging
  • Fact-Checking


    • Hello users report problems with signing up or logging in but Hello is interesting, fun and has a reward system. Hello is a fairly new mobile app that is still expanding.


    Top Social Media Platforms that Support Video Sharing – Runner Up


    USA.Life


    USA.Life

    USA.Life Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: A free, conservative alternative to Facebook, USA.Life provides online safety and less censoring.

    Age of Software/Company: 3.9 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 5.52

    Software Score: 39.18

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • Private Messaging
  • File Sharing


    • USA.Life is a conservative alternative to Facebook. Founded by Steven Andrew, this platform has less censorship than other platforms. Users like the auto-like, auto-friend, and auto-join links.



    Spreely


    Spreely

    Spreely Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Enables users to control their experience by saving newsfeeds, keeping personal credentials private, and freely expressing themselves.

    Age of Software/Company: 2.2 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 4.82

    Software Score: 42.18

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Platform Moderation
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Mobile App
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Private Messaging
  • Fact-Checking
  • Schedule Future Posts


    • Though some users feel that Spreely is biased, it’s a platform that allows you to “speak your mind”. Users like the credits and bonuses they receive for being active in the Spreely community.



    Woddal


    Woddal

    Woddal Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Connect with friends, share your news through photos, status, and more.

    Age of Software/Company: 3.1 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 5.98

    Software Score: 33.54

  • Text Messaging
  • Block Other Users
  • Search Function
  • Join or Create Groups
  • News Feed
  • Image Messaging
  • Report Abuse Option
  • Video Messaging
  • Create Pages / Brands
  • Create Connections
  • Share With Connections
  • File Sharing


    • Founded in 2018, Woddal helps users find friends, share what’s new, and learn about local and world events. Although sometimes slow, this platform’s goal is to create technology that serves people.


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    ]]> https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-social-media-platforms-that-support-video-sharing-in-2021/feed/ 0 What is Image Ranking Software? https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-image-ranking-software/ https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-image-ranking-software/#respond Sun, 05 Sep 2021 20:10:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=19187 Image Ranking Software Definition User experience (UX) is becoming even more important in today's digital world. Image ranking software tools are web-based applications that help…

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    Image Ranking Software Definition

    User experience (UX) is becoming even more important in today's digital world. Image ranking software tools are web-based applications that help businesses improve UX (consequently improving conversion rate). Now we are not talking about optimizing your images for SEO ranking. The goal of image ranking software is to find out which images people prefer, find more engaging or more professional. Some other terms for image ranking software include: image A/B testing, bucket testing, picture survey tool, or image split-run testing. Our comprehensive Image Ranking Software Research shows more than 17 tools that allow image prioritization through surveys or other means.

    These tools use a data-driven approach by usually testing two variants/images against each other. There are often other capabilities that come with image ranking software, like comparing two website landing pages or other specific web pages. Image ranking software is especially important to marketing departments as it allows them to drill down and discover what changes need to be made in order to encourage consumer activity. Today, most software used for marketing automation usually comes with the ability to run image A/B tests. SurveyMonkey.com even has a convenient calculator to gauge statistical significance of A/B test results.

    If you are planning to perform an image A/B test it's handy to have a checklist ready, to clarify the process.

    Common Image Ranking Software Features

    According to our Doakio Image Ranking Software Research, these are the most common features, listed in order of popularity:

    Survey Editor – An interface that allows customizing or editing of surveys and/or forms.

    Data Analyzer Algorithms – Algorithms that make analysis of data, as easy as possible. Able to create custom graphs and tables and add them directly into reports.

    Report-Data Export – Provides exporting report data into popular and common file formats.

    Data Security Compliance / Privacy – Data security that satisfies General Data Protection Regulation compliance and privacy commitment.

    Mobile Optimized Surveys – Provides convenience for participants to take surveys using a mobile device.

    Multilingual Surveys – Allows participants to choose a language, beyond English, to take the survey.

    Developer Application Programming Interface – Surveys and/or forms that provide an application programming interface – REST-based, and can be accessed with the use of API keys (code).

    Real-Time Reports & Analysis – Able to build and customize reports from survey data, or generate them automatically. Real-time data and reports always keep you up to date!

    Conditional Branching – Also called logic branching or skip logic, this feature creates a unique path through the survey that changes according to a respondent's answers.

    Multiple Image Select – Allows participants to choose more than one image from the given options, for their answer.

    White Label / Custom Branding – Allows removal of all branding from the survey so only your brand name is used.

    Anonymous Survey Participation – Allows anonymity for online survey participants. Often, anonymous surveys collect more honest feedback.

    Randomize Image Order – Shows the images being surveyed in a random order to eliminate first-selection bias.

    Shareable to Social Media – Provides survey shareability to social media platforms.

    Split Testing (Two Variants) – Perform A/B (two variant) tests on images to determine which would perform best. Only shows two images at a time, no more.

    To find Image Ranking Software that will fit you, be sure to participate in our custom picture-survey tools survey so you can layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature. We’ll email you a complimentary custom report, automatically!

    Image Ranking Software Testing Examples

    Think of your current website landing page as the “control”, and the “variant” (or challenger) would be the same landing page with one variation, like a color change or a layout change.

    Another example might be comparing a “call to action” button’s location to a different location, to see if it brings more customer activity. 

    One common issue is having a website that is too cluttered. Again using a “control” page and comparing it to a “variant” page will help you to find a better balance. 

    Popular Image Ranking Software Tools

    For those interested in creating your own images using artificial intelligence, check out: Automatic Photo Creation Tools.

    Conclusion

    Customers often react differently to images or layouts than business owners think they would. So it is good to use image ranking software and test the images on the target audience instead of relying on intuition. This let's you prioritize your best performing pictures to suit the application.

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    ]]>     https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-image-ranking-software/feed/ 0     Top 5 Alternative Web Browsers with Translation Feature in 2021 https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-alternative-web-browsers-with-translation-feature-in-2021/ https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-alternative-web-browsers-with-translation-feature-in-2021/#respond Thu, 02 Sep 2021 20:27:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=19218 According to the data, these are the best alternative web browsers with a translation feature. Some articles give you a random ordering of “Best” tools,…

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    ]]>     According to the data, these are the best alternative web browsers with a translation feature. Some articles give you a random ordering of “Best” tools, but not here. This article is based on intensive research of more than 49 alternative web browsers. We’ve compared and contrasted each tool’s features, along with the company’s attributes, to come up with these top 5.

    Depending on your needs, you may come up with a different selection of top alternative web browsers with a translation feature. So be sure to make use of our custom web browsers survey to layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature. You’ll automatically receive a free custom report reflecting your ratings!

    Having a translation feature is critical for many people. We trust that this publication will save you much time in locating an alternative web browser that fits your particular use case. We also have domain authority data which serves as a good indicator of the overall popularity of each tool.

    We found 10 alternative web browsers with a translation feature. We list the top five here, along with three runners up.

    We provide serious research to help you find the ideal web browser alternative. Be sure to see our original research publication on Top 50 Web Browser Alternatives that is always kept up-to-date. If you’re aware of any applications or features that we haven't included in our comparison analysis, please let us know in the comments below.

    We now present to you our evidence-backed ordered listing of the top five alternative web browsers with a translation feature:

    1. Google Chrome
    2. Yandex Browser
    3. Coc Coc
    4. QQ Browser
    5. SeaMonkey

      6. Runners up:

    6. Naver Whale
    7. Avast Secure Browser
    8. SlimBrowser

    Top Five Alternative Web Browsers with Translation Feature


    Google Chrome


    Google Chrome

    Google Chrome Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: This popular cross-platform browser helps you get things done while providing online safety.

    Age of Software/Company: 12.9 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 4.04

    Software Score: 55.83

    Distinctive features:

    • Media Control Icons
    • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
    • Screen Capture
    • Language Translation

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Mobile Application
  • Synchronize devices
  • Task Manager
  • Language Translation
  • Screen Capture
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Media Control Icons


    • While it uses quite a bit of RAM, Google Chrome is popular, secure and provides easy reopening of recently closed tabs. Users like the interface and the easy navigation.



    Yandex Browser


    Yandex Browser

    Yandex Browser Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: A popular, international Russian-based company, Yandex checks the security of websites and downloaded files. It has great features like an improved algorithm for spam detection.

    Age of Software/Company: 8.8 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 3.9

    Software Score: 50.58

    Distinctive features:

    • Language Translation

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Mobile Application
  • Synchronize devices
  • Task Manager
  • Language Translation


    • While Yandex Browser has had some security concerns, users like its smooth function, tab manager buttons and that it will accept browser extensions from the Opera add-ons website.



    Coc Coc


    Coc Coc

    Coc Coc Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: A free browser used by Vietnamese speaking people but also supports English. Based on Chromium source code, this browser is popular, stable and high quality.

    Age of Software/Company: 8.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 3.61

    Software Score: 53.75

    Distinctive features:

    • Media Control Icons
    • Language Translation
    • Sidebar Pane

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Mobile Application
  • Synchronize devices
  • Task Manager
  • Sidebar Pane
  • Language Translation
  • Media Control Icons


    • Coc Coc focuses on Vietnamese users, and, after Google Chrome, is the 2nd most popular Browser in that country. Users enjoy Coc Coc’s clean look and being able to set the default search engine.



    QQ Browser


    QQ Browser

    QQ Browser Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Developed by TenCent, QQ uses WebKit and Trident for its search engines. It enables convenient document editing, sidebars, and customization options.

    Age of Software/Company: 8.7 Yrs

    Business Score: 3.26

    Software Score: 52.5

    Distinctive features:

    • Language Translation
    • Sidebar Pane

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Mobile Application
  • Synchronize devices
  • Task Manager
  • Sidebar Pane
  • Language Translation


    • QQ Browser is mainly for users in China. It rates rather low on privacy, and some users cannot sign up or login if a US phone number is used. Many users enjoy the visual appeal, and that it is free.



    SeaMonkey


    SeaMonkey

    SeaMonkey Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Enjoy a browser that is fast, stable, cross-platform, simple and customizable.

    Age of Software/Company: 13.8 Yrs

    Business Score: 2.93

    Software Score: 45.91

    Distinctive features:

    • Language Translation

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Task Manager
  • Language Translation


    • SeaMonkey is based on the same source code as Mozilla Application Suite. The navigation between pages is not real fast, but one strong point is that SeaMonkey has a large group of contributors.


    Top Alternative Web Browsers with Translation Feature – Runners Up



    Naver Whale

    Naver Whale Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: A free web browser that is compatible with Chrome apps. Though it's available in Korean and English, users can also translate from many languages using Naver Papago.

    Age of Software/Company: 4.7 Yrs

    Business Score: 2.4

    Software Score: 52

    Distinctive features:

    • Screen Capture
    • Language Translation
    • Sidebar Pane

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Mobile Application
  • Task Manager
  • Sidebar Pane
  • Language Translation
  • Screen Capture


    • This is a free, South Korean browser. Some Naver Whale users report that the ad-block option doesn't work but it has quick load times and users like the video conferencing with no time limits.



    Avast Secure Browser


    Avast Secure Browser

    Avast Secure Browser Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Chromium-based, Avast is agile and stable while maintaining strong online security.

    Age of Software/Company: 1.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 2.3

    Software Score: 46.91

    Distinctive features:

    • Language Translation

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Mobile Application
  • Task Manager
  • Language Translation


    • Avast Secure Browser interface is similar to Google Chrome. Users are not able to uninstall extensions that come with it but it does come with a number of built-in privacy enhancing features.



    SlimBrowser


    SlimBrowser

    SlimBrowser Comparison Details

    Free trial: Not Available

    Pricing: Not Available

    Feature summary: Lightweight, versatile and powerful, Slimbrowser allows multiple identity files.

    Age of Software/Company: 5.3 Yrs

    Business Score: 1.78

    Software Score: 52.33

    Distinctive features:

    • Screen Capture
    • Language Translation
    • Sidebar Pane

  • Address Bar
  • Web Page Zoom
  • Tabs
  • Printing Support
  • Search Within Webpage
  • Bookmarks or Favorites
  • Fullscreen Mode
  • TOR Browsing / Anonymity
  • Stored History
  • View Page Source
  • Download Management
  • Inspect Elements / Source Code
  • Private Web Searching
  • Profiles
  • Extensions or Plugins
  • Themes
  • Synchronize devices
  • Task Manager
  • Sidebar Pane
  • Language Translation
  • Screen Capture


    • SlimBrowser users report lagging or freeze problems but most enjoy the multiple tabs and ease of use. SlimBrowser is based on the engine behind Internet Explorer from Microsoft, Trident engine.


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    ]]> https://doakio.com/blog/top-5-alternative-web-browsers-with-translation-feature-in-2021/feed/ 0 What is a Software Comparison Website? https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-a-software-comparison-website/ https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-a-software-comparison-website/#respond Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:12:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=19175 Software Comparison Website Definition A software comparison website is a platform that advertises itself as a way to find and select software, usually grouped by…

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    ]]>     Software Comparison Website Definition

    A software comparison website is a platform that advertises itself as a way to find and select software, usually grouped by categories. It is a large field of data that needs frequent updating. Software comparison platforms may compare just one specific tool/platform/operating system like iPod file managers, or they may provide comparisons within many types, categories, or sub-categories of software.

    Software Comparison Methodologies

    Many of today's software comparison sites rely heavily on customer reviews. Unfortunately there is a downside to this method. Many of these reviews are outdated or no longer apply to the current software version. Also, finding accurate, unpaid, human-generated reviews is becoming much more difficult with the advent of modern natural language generators like GPT-3 and Facebook’s Megatron. In fact, a large amount of B2B (business to business) software reviews ‘look outright fraudulent’. Many businesses, including software comparison sites, are having to find ways to avoid these problems.

    In the realm of software comparisons, a data-driven approach can be much more reliable. Some things to look for include up-to-date, ordered feature lists and their descriptions; content-change monitoring to stay up-to-date, proprietary interactive charts; and other important business details. Obviously we here at Doakio are partial to our own method of overcoming these problems in the software comparisons space. We believe that transparency is the best approach. You can even see a comparison of other software comparison platforms here.

    How to Compare Software on Doakio

    1. If you’d like an overview of our own methods, you can watch this informative video. If you would like to jump right in, move on to step 2.
    1. Simply go to our home page and select the software category of your choice. This will bring up our research publication on that subject.
    1. Once you have opened the publication and start reading, you’ll quickly find our custom survey button. By participating in this survey, you will hone in on the software tools that fit your use case the best. (We’ll email a complimentary custom report based on your feature preferences!)
    1. In the research publication, below our “top ten” list, be sure to make use of the interactive scatter plot. This shows where all the different tools stand in relation to each other, in two dimensions. This chart makes use of a built-in proprietary weighted layer based on input from a cohort of industry professionals. These experts let us know what they thought were the most important features.

    Software Comparison Site Features

    This feature list will help you keep in mind some of the attributes to consider as you look for the right software comparison website (in order of feature commonality):

    Attribute Rating – A method of scoring the software solutions based on the actual attributes or features of the software.

    Proprietary Report / Chart – Provides a unique report or chart to interpret or evaluate the software functions and features, and provide visual results.

    Human Generated Reports – Human curated reports.

    Comprehensive Research – Meticulously and methodologically prepared research that doesn’t limit consideration to only those software vendors who paid or otherwise chose to participate in the research.

    Customer / 3rd Party Reviews – Provides or accepts reviews from customers and 3rd parties (parties not controlled by a seller or a customer). Reviews may provide valuable insights but are hard to police and validate.

    Ad-Free – Contains no advertisements.

    Alternative Offerings – List of other optional products closely related to the products/services being offered.

    Auto-Generated Reports – Reports are automatically generated by the software system.

    Lists Software Features – This includes feature lists for either the entire category of software, or for each individual software solution.

    Free Customized Reports – Gathers visitor's preferences automatically, and generates a customized report based on those preferences.

    Rank Ordering – A sorted list of software tools according to a specific quality or metric.

    Interactive Filters – The user can select one or more filters to apply to the software feature data.

    Software Comparison Platforms

    To get you started on your journey, this list of software-comparison websites is in order of popularity:

    1. TrustRadius
    2. G2 Crowd
    3. FinancesOnline
    4. SoftwareFindr-Saas Scout
    5. DiscoverCloud
    6. Software Suggest
    7. GetApp
    8. Doakio
    9. Capterra
    10. Crozdesk
    11. Technology Advice
    12. IT Central Station
    13. SelectHub

    For help in finding a comparison tool that fits your needs, please see our original research publication on software comparison platforms that is always kept up-to-date. Also, remember to participate in our custom Software Comparison Platforms Survey so you can layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature. At Doakio we love helping amazing people find amazing software fast!

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    ]]>     https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-a-software-comparison-website/feed/ 0     Top Five Meta-Search Engines in 2021 https://doakio.com/blog/top-five-meta-search-engines-in-2021/ https://doakio.com/blog/top-five-meta-search-engines-in-2021/#respond Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:22:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=16645 A metasearch engine is a tool that retrieves online information from web-search engines to create their own results. Businesses use metal search engines to stay…

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    ]]>     A metasearch engine is a tool that retrieves online information from web-search engines to create their own results. Businesses use metal search engines to stay competitive. According to our comprehensive research, these are the best metasearch engines. This article is based on analysis of more than 46 Google Search Engine alternatives. All features and company attributes were compared and contrasted to come up with these top 5.

    Now, depending on your particular use case, you may come up with different top metasearch engines. To help you find the software tool that fits your needs we, at Doakio, have created a custom search-engine-alternatives-to-Google survey. This survey allows you to layer on your own importance weighting for each feature and attribute of these tools. You’ll receive a complimentary report with a list of tools that reflect your choices.

    We also provide domain authority data. This serves as a good indicator of overall popularity. Our researchers found 19 metasearch engines. We list the top five here, along with three runners up.

    We trust that this publication will save you much time in locating a metasearch engine that fits. Remember to visit our always-current research publication on Top Search Engine Alternatives to Google.

    So without further ado, we present to you our evidence-backed ordered listing of the top five metasearch engines:

    1. DuckDuckGo
    2. Startpage
    3. Million Short
    4. Excite
    5. Searx

      6. Runners up:

    6. Yippy
    7. Givero
    8. MetaCrawler

    Top Five Meta Search Engines


    DuckDuckGo

    DuckDuckGo


    DuckDuckGo

    DuckDuckGo Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 12.8 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 5.1

    Software Score: 46

    Distinctive features:

    • Open Source Code
    • Filter by Language
    • Filter by Region
    • Maps Search

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Image Search
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Video Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Filter by Date
  • Anonymous Search
  • Safe Search
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Maps Search
  • Filter by Region
  • Filter by Language
  • Open Source Code


    • DuckDuckGo puts an emphasis on protecting users’ privacy. While some users feel it is not as efficient as Google as far as search results, many people like the !Bang function, and that DuckDuckGo is more fun.



    Startpage

    Startpage


    Startpage

    Startpage Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 22.6 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 4.91

    Software Score: 41.72

    Distinctive features:

    • Email Service
    • Filter by Region

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Image Search
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Video Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Filter by Date
  • Anonymous Search
  • Safe Search
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Filter by Region
  • Email Service


    • Startpage provides more privacy than Google by helping users keep control of their personal data. While the search results are the same as you would get on Google, the searches are not tracked by Google. Users enjoy visiting linked sites anonymously.



    Million Short

    Million Short


    Million Short

    Million Short Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 9.2 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 4.15

    Software Score: 28.9

    Distinctive features:

    • Filter by Language
    • Ad-Free Results
    • Filter by Region

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Filter by Date
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Filter by Region
  • Ad-Free Results
  • Filter by Language


    • While it IS an experimental search engine, Million Short does provide unique results. It allows users a refreshing experience by exploring below the surface of the internet.



    Excite

    Excite


    Excite

    Excite Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 24.8 Yrs

    Business Score: 3.73

    Software Score: 31.36

    Distinctive features:

    • Astrology Search
    • Finance Search
    • Sports Search
    • Entertainment Search
    • Email Service

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Email Service
  • Entertainment Search
  • Sports Search
  • Finance Search
  • Astrology Search


    • While Excite isn't as popular as it once was, many people in Japan still use it. Excite users enjoy the ability to customize the home page. It is currently run by IAC Applications.



    Searx

    Searx


    Searx

    Searx Comparison Details

    Feature summary: Searx, a metasearch engine which collects results from over 70 search services, allows users to avoid tracking. For online privacy, Searx can be used over Tor.

    Age of Software/Company: 6.5 Yrs

    Business Score: 3.18

    Software Score: 34.54

    Distinctive features:

    • Record of Search History
    • Open Source Code
    • Music Search
    • Maps Search

  • Web Search
  • Image Search
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Video Search
  • Anonymous Search
  • Safe Search
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Maps Search
  • Music Search
  • Open Source Code
  • Record of Search History


    • While some users report the need to submit a search query more than once to get results, Searx's goal is to protect users' privacy. Searx will not share a user's IP addresses or search info.


    Top Meta Search Engines – Runners Up


    Yippy

    Yippy


    Yippy

    Yippy Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 24.4 Yrs

    Business Score: 3.47

    Software Score: 30.9

    Distinctive features:

    • Open Source Code
    • Ad-Free Results

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Image Search
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Video Search
  • Anonymous Search
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Ad-Free Results
  • Open Source Code


    • Yippy, previously known as Clusty, is privacy oriented. Users enjoy the organized search results and using the group keywords to do a deeper search.



    Givero

    Givero


    Givero

    Givero Comparison Details

    Feature summary: Say hello to open source bangs.

    Age of Software/Company: 7.5 Yrs

    Business Score: 2.76

    Software Score: 35.9

    Distinctive features:

    • Filter by Language
    • Filter by Region
    • Maps Search

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Image Search
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Site / Domain Specific Search
  • Video Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Safe Search
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval
  • Maps Search
  • Filter by Region
  • Filter by Language


    • Givero is a new (founded in 2018) search engine that donates half of their revenue to charitable organizations. It protects users' privacy to an extent (it will pass IP addresses on to another search engine), so it is recommended to use a good VPN (Virtual Private Network).



    MetaCrawler

    MetaCrawler


    MetaCrawler

    MetaCrawler Comparison Details

    Age of Software/Company: 24.7 Yrs

    Business Score: 3.56

    Software Score: 27.18

  • Web Search
  • Exact Search (in quotes)
  • Image Search
  • Incremental Auto-Complete
  • News Search
  • Boolean Search (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Video Search
  • Related Searches
  • Search Within Results
  • Metasearch Engine Info Retrieval


    • Metacrawler is also known as System1. The name System1 was inspired by a theory of a Nobel laureate (Daniel Kahneman) and his partner. Waterfox browser is a recent addition to their services/applications.


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    ]]> https://doakio.com/blog/top-five-meta-search-engines-in-2021/feed/ 0 What is Website Change Monitoring Software? https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-website-change-monitoring-software/ https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-website-change-monitoring-software/#respond Sun, 22 Aug 2021 19:57:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=17262 Website Change Monitoring Software Defined Many internet users are familiar with the frustrations of manually checking an entire webpage for changes, only to find that…

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    Many internet users are familiar with the frustrations of manually checking an entire webpage for changes, only to find that there were no updates. Thankfully there is a time saving solution that automates this process. Website-change monitoring software, also called Change Detection and Notification (CDN) systems, automatically notifies the user when a change has occurred on the website that is being monitored. These tools use web crawlers to scan a website, periodically, for any changes.

    Most web pages on the internet are dynamic and change frequently. “New content gets added to webpages, and existing content gets updated or deleted. Hence, people find it useful to be alert for changes in webpages that contain information that is of value to them. In the current context, keeping track of these webpages and getting alerts about different changes have become significantly challenging. Change Detection and Notification systems were introduced to automate this monitoring process and to notify users when changes occur in webpages.”

    One issue with this type of software is receiving a false positive. This can come about because ads or feeds in the monitored web page periodically change. But, of course, most users are interested in changes to the main content, not the advertisements. One solution is creating a benchmark of distinction between two versions of a page and then ignoring changes below a certain threshold. Another possible remedy is to extract certain content from “useless” content using various methods, for example: selecting a sub-tree of the Document Object Model, by using XPath.

    Website-change monitoring software can be grouped into two architectural approaches:

    Server based: Using the internet, a server checks webpage content, tracks changes then records the data and sends a notification to the user. Regardless of the central computer’s location, this scenario allows users to enter and/or access data from anywhere. This approach is easier for collaboration.

    Client based: Not dependent on the internet, a client-based application checks, tracks and logs content data from a local device. These clients share stored data from a local server for one or more users. This approach is usually more affordable.

    Reasons to Use Website Change Monitoring Software

    There are many reasons why someone would want to monitor website changes. Here at Doakio, we use it extensively to keep our research publications up-to-date. Some other specific reasons include:

    • Improve various automations
    • Reduce link death
    • Discover trends
    • Improve various employment classifications
    • Update documentation
    • To “keep tabs” on competitors
    • Investigation monitoring
    • To check website compliance

    A Bit of History

    Before the advent of website-change monitoring software, users had to manually check websites by revisiting them periodically. Here are a few notable events:

    1996 – NetMind Technologies developed Mind-it (detected changes and sent notifications). 

    1999 – ChangeDetection service was created.

    2002 – Development of ChangeDetect service.

    2003 – Google Alerts service was created.

    2007 – Versionista was created; later used by a U.S. presidential campaign.

    Most Prominent Features of Website Change Monitoring Software

    According to Doakio’s comprehensive research on website-change monitoring tools, we’ve come up with an ordered list of the most common features:

    • Sends Email Notifications – Sends monitored reports through email.
    • Monitoring from Cloud – Monitors web-page content change, over the internet.
    • Preview Page and Select HTML/JavaScript/CSS – Able to preview a page to monitor as well as selecting the page's CSS code.
    • Flexible Scheduling – Ability to schedule monitoring at a convenient time.
    • Element or Area Selection – Ability to monitor just a page area or an element.
    • Highlights Changes – Highlights parts of the web page that have been changed.
    • Change History / Archive – Stores and archives page changes.
    • Monitoring from Local Machine – Monitors web-page content change locally. Not dependent on servers used over the internet.
    • Ignores Page Parts – Ability to ignore parts of pages such as blank spaces, pop-ups, ads, etc.
    • Application Programming Interface – Assists web-page monitoring, to automate the process.
    • Export Monitors – Monitors and their associated profiles can be exported using a common file format.
    • Browser Extension Available – Provides a browser extension that monitors web-page content.
    • Monitors Password Protected Pages – Able to monitor web-pages that have password protection..
    • Sends Push Notifications – Sends monitored reports through push notifications.
    • Removes Ads, etc., That Block Page – Removes pop-ups, ads, or elements that are blocking the page.
    • Cloud Storage – Stores the monitored change result to cloud servers.
    • Mobile App – Provides a mobile application version of the tool.
    • Sends SMS Notifications – Sends monitored reports through SMS or text.

    Popular Website Change Monitoring Software

    According to our related research on website change monitoring tools, these are the most popular:

    1. Distill.io
    2. Visualping
    3. WebSite-Watcher
    4. OnWebChange
    5. Sken.io
    6. ContentKing
    7. Wachete
    8. ChangeTower
    9. Apify Content Checker
    10. WebChangeMonitor
    11. Deep Dive Duck
    12. Pagecrawl.io
    13. Hexowatch

    To find a knowledge-base software tool that fits your needs, simply complete our custom website-change monitoring tools survey that allows you to input your own importance rating for each feature.

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    ]]>     https://doakio.com/blog/what-is-website-change-monitoring-software/feed/ 0     Best Free Children’s eBooks Online | Gizmo’s Freeware Archive https://doakio.com/blog/best-free-childrens-ebooks-online-gizmos-freeware-archive/ https://doakio.com/blog/best-free-childrens-ebooks-online-gizmos-freeware-archive/#respond Sat, 21 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://doakio.com/?p=18164 Introduction This is a listing of 234 sites that legally offer free ebooks for children to read. There is a separate listing of audio books…

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    Introduction

    eBook imageThis is a listing of 234 sites that legally offer free ebooks for children to read.

    There is a separate listing of audio books for children at:

    This page is geared towards younger children.  I recently added a page of site listings for

    All of these sites listed have content that is legal for them to distribute.  If you find that any site listed is offering content that can not be legally transferred, please let me know in the comments below.

    This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums.

    A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

    For a complete listing of the free ebook pages here at Gizmo's, see

    Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials for children.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

    [Doakio Editor's Note: This article was restored from Gizmo's Freeware archives as a service to the freeware community. Gizmo's Freeware provided high-quality, volunteer freeware reviews for decades. They shut down in July of 2021.]

    Children's eBooks Series

    Someone asked in the comments here about books in the Peter Pan series and I thought that it would be a good idea to gather together the various locations for the books in a children's series.  Since I did not want to take up further web pages here at Gizmo's, I set up a site at Google Sites to provide the links for these books.  As of now, I have listed only one series, but if there is interest I will post up more.  Please let me know in the comments below (or at the Google site) if you are interested.

    • The Oz Series  Most people think there is only the one book (Wizard of Oz), but there are 40 “official” books in the Oz series and several more “unofficial” Oz books.  The official series started in 1900 and continued until 1963.  I have located copies of the first 38 of the 40 official Oz books and have provided links to them.  I have also located a few of the unofficial Oz works and will be posting up those links soon.  This was one of my favorites as a child and I hope you enjoy them also.

    Free Children's eBooks

    2020ok around 100 books for babies through 12 nicely divided into categories.  Note:  Most of the links here are working, but there are a number that lead to BookRags, which are not free anymore.  Unfortunately, there is no way of telling where the link goes until you click the link.  Since they did fix the issue with archive.org links, hopefully they will fix this. Thanks to Marie99 for pointing this out.

    ABC Fast Phonics a completely free site for children to learn to read through phonics.  No registration needed.

    AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading.  The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.

    Aesop's Fables  offers 655+ of the Aesop fables for free online reading as well as 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the fable of Jean Fontaine (17 and being added to).  There are also a couple of L. Frank Baum stories and Dickens' , A Christmas Carol.  Also available are 37 audio versions.

    A Europe of Tales  has free stories from 5 different European countries available for free reading online in a flash player.  There are several stories for each country.   Very nice graphics.

    AllBooksFree has a very nice collection of ebooks for online viewing and listening.  Some are also available for download in PDF.  These are unique entries that are not available elsewhere.

    Allen Morgan offers quite a few of his stories and novels for children for free reading online without registration.

    AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro  has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

    AmazingAdventureSeries offers the children story “June the Prune” for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

    AmericanFolklore offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.

    American Literature   has a nice little collection of free stories for children available for free reading online.  These have some nice illustrations.

    AndersenFairyTales offers several of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for free online reading in a flash player.  Also available are associated activities.

    Animated Tall Tales offers the flash animated story of Paul Bunyan for free reading online.

    Antique Books has 20 of the classic Golden Books for free online viewing without registration.

    Archive.org (Children's Library) large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download

    ArmenianStoryTeller has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.

    Arthur's Classic Novels  has a large and impressive collection of free classic ebooks for children sorted by Author.  The ones I looked at were either available as EPUB or PDF, but apparently some are MOBI.  Very nice if you want to get started on a classic book series.

    Author Marketing Club  monitors Amazon (USA) for daily free ebook offerings. The amount listed varies from day to day.  They do offer genre selection and every daily listing that I saw had Children's books.  You do have to go into each daily listing individually.

    Author Stand has a good number of free original children books.  There are a few books that cost money mixed in to the listing, but the vast majority are available for free download in PDF.  Free registration is required and I have received no spam after registering months ago.

    BABBooks has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.

    Baby School   has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children.

    BaldwinLibraryofChildren'sLiterature has almost 6,000 classic , but unique, children's books for free viewing online.  the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations.  A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.  Not related to the above as far as I can tell.

    Baldwin Online Children's Projects 520 classic  children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.

    BBCSchools  has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio.

    Bedtime-Story has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing.  Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.

    Ben and Me has a very nice listing of links to free ebooks for children available at Amazon.

    Best Children's Books offers 2 original children books and links to a number of free children books.

    BetweentheLions has a good number of video books with words for younger readers to follow along.  Also some games and other activities for young readers.

    B For Ball offers books for online viewing geared to preschoolers.  These books cover basics such as alphabet, colors, shapes etc.  Thanks to Gretish for this suggestion.

    Bibliotastic has an interesting and unique collection of 15 free ebooks in their children's category.  These may be viewed online without registration.  Free registration is required to download in PDF, KINDLE or EPUB.

    BillyBear4Kids offers several personalized story books and coloring books for download as PC programs.  There is also a book available for free online reading in a flash player.  There are also downloadable programs to encourage children to write their own books.

    BookBox has about 20 free books available for download in pdf (as a single page) and MP3.  Also free games and coloring books.

    Book Goodies For Kids  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebooks for children.

    Bookie Jar has almost 2,000 free ebooks in its Children's Books Free Classics category and 1 free ebook in its Children's Books Free Indie category.  All are available for free reading online without registration.  Registration also allows free download in EPUB (Nook, iPad etc.) or Kindle compatible MOBI.

    BookRix has more than 2900 free children's ebooks for free reading online or free download in EPUB.  These are unpublished authors works.  Age range of reading material varies from tot to teen.

    Booksie  is a site for self publishing authors and has over 1800 free works for children.  These vary from short stories to full length novels.  The short stories are available for free reading online and fee download in PDF.  The novels and longer stories are available for free download in PDF.

    BooksShouldBeFree has a good size collection of Childrens and Fairy Tales books available for download in plain text format.

    BritishCouncil has a very nice collection of flash animated song and audio read-a-long stories.  Games and other activities also available.  Audio may be disabled for reading only.  They also have posted the stories at YouTube.

    Bubu Tales has 2 free books, in a wide variety of languages, available for free download in PDF

    BuddhaNet  offers about 15 Buddhist books for children as well as textbooks and coloring books for download in PDF.

    Building Rainbows is a site where children may post reviews of books they have read. They also have 15 free classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

    byGosh has about 20 illustrated classics for younger children, as well as 9 classics for older children.  All are available for free reading online.

    CandlelightStories has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading.

    CBeebies is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening.  Also, has games, music and coloring books.

    Centsless Books monitors the top 100 free ebooks in Amazon's children section on an hourly basis.

    Children's Bedtime Stories offer 20 free stories for free reading online.  These are original stories by Gordon Dioxide.

    ChildrensBooksForever has a nice collection of books in pdf.  Additional comments from Cathy of  PuzzlEd  “I checked out ChildrensBooksForever and the books are just delightful! Gorgeous pictures and some good themes for primary-school kids (anger, bullying etc). Over 20 books available to download and use on computer, Smartboards etc, as well as viewing online (and in quite a variety of languages, too, apparently). Excellent for school or home use.”

    Children's Books Online is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online.   They are also available for download at a fee.  This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.

    Children'sLibrary.org  has a large collection of books for online viewing.  Many appear to be unique classic works that are finely illustrated.  Books can be filtered by age, length and fiction/non-fiction.

    Childrenstory offers a smaller collection of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and holiday stories.  There is also a story that was written and illustrated by 2d grader children.  Caution that many of the other links lead to items for sale.

    ChildStoryHour offers a good number of stories for free reading online.  Included are Beatrix Potter, Andersen Fairy Tales, Native American folklore as well as other stories and poems.  There are also other activities at the site.

    ChildStoryTeller has a good number of short stories and nursery rhymes for reading online.  No illustrations to speak of and most of the stories are classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entries here.

    Cindi In Education  offers 2 free educational comic books for middle school and high school children.

    Cinnamon Bear Free stories and other activities about Paddy O'Cinnamon, the bear.

    Clarkness has a large collection of free ebooks for kindergarten and first grade children.  These are available in PDF for free download.

    Classic Literature Library (Fairy Tales) Small collection, but a nice collection of the Oz and Peter Pan books along with Lewis Carroll's children's books available for online viewing.

    Classicly has a nice collection of free books for children and young readers.  Most are available for download in pdf, kindle or MP3 (audiobook).  The Young Reader Collection only lists four books, but if you click on links in the introductory paragraph, you will be taken to other works.  Thanks to Tyler G for this suggestion.

    ClassicReader (Young Readers) Several hundred classic books for young readers available for online viewing.

    Classics For Young People an alphabetical listing of authors of classic novels for young readers with links to online versions of appropriate works by each author.

    CyberKids  offers free books, written by children, for online viewing.  Unique collection divided into several genre categories.  Also offers some interactive stories, music and activities.

    Daily Cheap Reads Jr.  monitors Amazon for limited time free offerings for children.  Not as many entries as some of the other sites that monitor Amazon.  eMail updates are available.

    Disney.Go offers the free picture book, Lady and the Tramp, for free reading online in their flash player.  No registration needed.

    DLTK-Teach   offers free printable children's books.  Most are geared towards pre-schoolers, including a set on the alphabet, but there are some stories for older children also.    Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

    DMOZ  has a huge listing of free ebooks and other activities for children and teens around the web.  Many of the books are listed on the Literature page, but if you look around, you will find more.

    Don't Spank Hank  David Peters offers this picture ebook for free download in PDF and SWF.

    East of the Web  offers 23 free short stories for children for free online reading.  This is a mix of classic and original modern works.

    EasyMediaBroadcast   has a nice little collection of classic children's books with many of Beatrix Potter's works.  The works are available for download in TK3 and as .exe.  Downloads were a bit slow, but the quality of the works was very good.

    eBookJunkie has about 65 free ebooks for children available for free download in PDF without registration.  These are unique entries not found elsewhere.

    eBooks@Adelaide has a large listing of free classic children's novels in chronological order.

    e-booksDirectory has some classic children's books available for online viewing and some for download.  Some are the usual classics, but also some unusual entries here.   Additional free children's books are available here at this page

    Ebooks For All Links to 86 free classic ebooks.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.

    eBooks Free Free Free posts daily listings of free ebook offerings at Amazon (USA).  I did not see a way to go to older posts, so it is a good idea to use their email updates or RSS feed.

    eBook Takeaway has 226 free classic ebooks in their Fiction-Children/Juvenile category available for free download in PDF, TEXT and HTML without registration.

    eduplace  offers 14 “leveled” books for online reading or printing.

    Electric Scotland has over 800 free children's books, for children of all ages, available for free reading online.  These are unique and original stories and many are illustrated.

    ePubBooks has an interesting collection of classic fairy tale books, with some unique entries.  These are available for free download in EPUB.

    eReader News  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebook  offerings.  This link is to their Children and Middle Grade listings.  eMail updates for this category are available.

    eReaderPerks   monitors free releases at Amazon (as well as for Nook and Kobo) and has very good category listings, including children.  Subscribers can now get customizable, genre-specific emails for children books age 0 to 12.

    ETextCenter the electronic text center of the University of Virginia has a large collection of works for children and young adults available for online viewing.  These are classic works and many are available elsewhere, but there are some unique ones.  Books are sorted by author name.

    FableLibrary has an interesting and unique collection of children's works.  Most are available for viewing online, including some flash versions.  But a few are available for download.  Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

    Fanatics4Classics  provides links to a large collection of Children's books at Project Gutenberg.

    FarmhouseFables offers 5 short story books about the little creatures that have made their home in the meadow next to the old farmhouse.

    Feedbooks (Fairy Tales) has a small but unique collection of fairy tale books from around the globe available for download in Kindle, ePub and PDF.

    Fiction eBooks (Children's Illustrated) 8 of Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit books very nicely illustrated.

    FictionPress has 2695 free works in its Kids Fiction Archive.  These appear to be original and unpublished works and most are short stories.  These are available for free reading online.

    FKB monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings and maintains a Children/Young Adult category.  The posts clearly show which free books are for younger and older children.  Also has links to the “always free” ebook offerings for children and young adults at Amazon.  eMail updates are available.

    FloridaDisaster.org  offers three books on hazardous weather for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade readers in download in PDF.

    Foboko has 12 free unique ebooks in their children's ebook section.  These are all available for free reading online without registration. Free registration is required to download in a variety of formats.  There is a limit of 5 free downloads per month.

    Free & Discounted Books  this link is to their Children's category for free ebooks.  All the ones I looked at were from Amazon (USA).

    Freebook Sifter lists both recent limited time offers and classics from Amazon.  Ranks listings by average user rating.  Also has nice feature of further subcategories to set age range and other options.  Thanks to Rob Schifreen of our site TSA for this link.

    FreeChildrenStories offers 17 free stories for online reading.  Stories may be sorted by difficulty or age.  For children aged 1 to 10.

    Free eBooks Daily monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings and maintains a Children's category.  Most posts are for USA, Canada and UK free ebooks.  RSS feed available.

    FreeKidsBooks has a nice collection of original children's books available for free download in PDF.  Age range is from toddlers to young adults.

    Free Read Feed (UK) has over 5,000 free ebook listings from Amazon (UK).  They monitor recent free offerings as well as showing some that are always free.  Like their USA counterpart below, the site offers sorting by genre, time offered, length and popularity.  This link is to the Children's Non-Fiction, Children's Fiction and Children and Teens genre listings.

    Free Read Feed  (USA)   regularly posts, throughout the day, the limited time free ebook offerings at Amazon (USA).  This is an extensive listing of the free ebook offerings, showing the genre (with option to exclude that genre or show only that genre in results) and the length of the ebook.  They have some filtering options, length of ebook and date of free offering as well as a large genre listing option to exclude genres (click on Pick from a list).  This link is to the Children's ebooks, Children's Fiction and Children's Non-Fiction genre listings

    GailSpencerLamm  offers her illustrated ebook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download.

    Giggle Poetry a large collection of funny poetry for children available for free reading online.  Also, a poetry class for children to learn to write poetry and other activities are available for free.

    Gilead.org  provides many of the fairy tales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen.  These are available for free reading online without registration.

    Giraffian offers a nice collection of books for pre-schoolers, covering the alphabet, numbers colors and other topics.  Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

    GoldenGems   a collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg.

    GoodnightStories is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online.  A good number of the stories were written by children.  Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available.

    Google Book Search (Fairy Tales) 578 works for online viewing, from the 1850s-1920s.

    Grammaropolis has a book, video, songs and games to help children learn proper grammar.

    GrimmFairyTales has a small collection of The Grimm's fairy tales for free reading online in a flash player.  Also available are some associated activities.

    Hiyah offers some reading skills software for children 18 months to 6 years of age, which may also be used online without download.  Thanks to bowhunter1951 for this suggestion.

    Hundred Zeros UK    monitors the “Best Sellers” list at Amazon (UK) and offers RSS feeds for this listing for a great deal of genres.  This link is to the Children's eBooks (Fiction, Non-Fiction and Puzzles and Games) genre listing.

    Hundred Zeros USA   monitors the “Best Sellers” list at Amazon (USA and India) and has all the listings on one page.  They offer RSS and eMail updates.  This link is to the Children's eBooks (Fiction and Non-Fiction) genre listings

    i Love eBooks monitors Amazon for limited time free ebook offerings and maintains a Children's category.  They do not post a large amount of offerings as they restrict to those ebooks that have positive reviews.  email updates available.

    Indie Author Club  lists 167 always free children's ebooks at Amazon (USA).

    Indie Book Of The Day  monitors Amazon (USA UK) for limited time free ebook offerings in the Children's ebook category.

    InklessTales  offers 15 stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities.

    International Children's Digital Library nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing.

    IPL2 has 10 free stories for free reading online without registration.

    JesusandKidz offers a good number of illustrated bible stories for free reading online.  Also available are coloring pages, puzzles and songs.

    Joggoon has 30 classic children novels available for free reading online.   There are some unique listings here.

    Johnnie's Story Page most of these are links offsite, but it is a very nice collection and  well sorted for beginning and more advanced readers.  All the ones I looked at were flash presentations and also had audio available.

    Kellscraft (Children's Books) nice collection (100) of children's books from the 1890s-1920s.

    Kids Learning Centre Free books and other activities for children.

    KidsKnowIt  is not a book site, but it does have a lot of reading for children, along with educational puzzles and games.

    KidsNurseryRhymes a British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing.  Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.

    KidsPages offers free illustrated ebooks for reading online as well as other learning activities for younger children.  These stories are generally classic children stories.

    KidStoriesOnline offers free stories online (with optional audio), free ebooks, audio books and videos.  Some require providing an email, but most are available to all.

    Kids World Fun has 81 free ebooks for children available for free reading online or free download in PDF without registration.  There are also 21 animated read-a-long stories available for free viewing online.  There are also free poems and short stories as well as games at the site.

    Kindersay is a site for free preschool learning activities.  ABCs. short stories and sign language subjects available in a free flash player presentation.  Free registration is available for extra features, but not necessary to access subjects.

    Kindersite offer a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children.

    Kindle Nation Daily  has a separate listing of limited time Free Young Adult/Children ebooks from Amazon (USA).  The dates I looked at had 20 or so free ebooks listed daily, with the vast majority being for younger children

    Knowledgerush has a small, but interesting, collection with a good listing of Oz and Tom Swift books, along with some other classics for viewing online.  Also a young adults section.

    KOL Jr has 44 free picture ebooks for free reading online in a flash player.  These all come with audio for read-a-long.  No registration needed.

    Land of Magic has a large collection of free books.  Many are available for free reading online and some for free download in PDF.  Also, a large amount of audio books and other activities.

    Land of Nursery Rhymes large collection of nursery rhymes for free reading and listening online.  Other activities available.

    LearningPage  has a series (38) of printable “Tommy” story books suitable for about 8-10-year-olds, plus some other printable books, for free.  Requires free registration.  Suggested by Cathy of  PuzzlEd.

    LibraryofCongress  maintains a nice collection of classic children's books in its Children's Literature collection of its Rare Book section.  these are available for online reading and download in pdf.  These are illustrated copies and are a nice mix of well known and unusual.

    Light Up Your Brain is primarily known as an children's audio book site, but they also provide a copy of the stories for free reading online.  No registration needed.

    LilFingers Storybooks Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.

    Little Critters A dozen free stories in their interactive read and play section presented in a flash player.  Other activities also available.  The library section is just a listing of books that are for sale.

    LiverpoolMuseum offers the stories of 4 children taken into slavery on their trip from Africa to the Americas in 1780.  The stories start with their life in Africa and continue until the Americas.  Some make the trip alive and some do not.  Each is from a different tribe in Africa.

    LongLongTimeAgo is a large collection of fables, myths, folk tales, fairy tales and more from around the world.  These are available for reading online.

    Magickeys small, but interesting and unusual, collection for online viewing

    ManyBooks (Young Readers)  2390 books available for online viewing or download in an extremely large variety of formats.

    MegaMouseBooks offers two dozen books by Emma Laybourn for free reading online or free download in ePub or Mobi formats.  Age range is from 5 to 12.  Associated crossword puzzles are also available.

    MemoWare (Children's eBooks) 686 books available for download in varying formats

    MerpyStories offers several animated flash stories, with accompanying music, for online viewing.  The unique stories of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and Rufus the Firefly available in English and Spanish.  Other activities available.

    Michael Hardgrove  offers his illustrated book, “The Echo and the Pixie” for free reading online.

    Mightybook is a pay site, but it offers a good size collection of very interesting and free flash animation storybooks, story songs, Beatrix Potter stories and more.  I thought the music and art section, which combines classical music and art,  was a very good idea.

    Mother Goose Club  a collection of nursery rhymes available for free reading online without registration.  Also, some songs, videos and coloring pages.

    MrsPStorytime reads a few classic stories, some children written stories and animal stories read by Mrs P in a YouTube video, with read along captions.

    Munsey's (Children Books) 2283 free books available in HTML or a good variety of downloads.

    Munsey'sMobile has over 2000 free books in its Children's category.  These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePUB.  These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above.

    MuseumofUnnaturalHistory has a small collection of illustrated childrens' stories for online viewing. these are unique stories not found elsewhere.

    MyKidsCorner offers a good number of stories, interactive stories, rhymes, alphabet, games and puzzles and pictures for children aged 3 to 7.  All are available for free online reading.

    MysteryNetKids has a good size collection of mysteries for children to solve.  There are 28 “Solve-It” stories, 29 “Chiller” stories from the Darkmaster,  28 “Quick Solve” stories, 28 Magic Tricks and 21 mystery stories written by children that won the mystery writing contest at the site.

    MyYoungChild has a good variety of free stories designed for value building in children aged 3 to 7.  Some are read only, presented as images and some are listen alongs, presented in videos.

    Neverpedia  has a complete listing of the Peter Pan novels available for free reading online.

    Nobooko  lists over 1,100 free ebooks from Kobo and Smashwords in their Kids & Teens categories.  Kobo requires registration and all books are in EPUB.   At the time of this post there was only 1 ebooks from Smashwords and it was in German.

    Northpole  good sized collection of free Christmas related stories to read on line (or have read aloud).  Flash presentation on main page to access stories and hidden stories to find.

    No Twiddle Twaddle   a daily listing of the free books for children available at Amazon.  There are also book lists (that may contain books that are not free) and other children resources available.

    Nyla's Crafty Teaching has links to 120 free ebooks for children over at Amazon.  The links are contained within a pdf file.  There are also links to 5 free picture books on this page.

    OxfordOwl has over 250 free ebooks for free reading online in a flash player.  Age range is from 3 to 11.  Audio and associated activities are also available for most, if not all, the free ebooks.  Thanks to Katharine for this nice link.

    PBSKids has a few read along stories as well as several short educational videos for young children.

    PlanetOzKids has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals.  Also available are detective stories to work along with.  All available for online viewing.

    Popular Children's Stories  a nice collection of stories for children available for free reading online without registration.  Most are short stories, with some longer ones.

    Professor Garfield  Garfield the cat hosts a website with a good collection of original and unique stories for younger readers (press the Read button on the home page).  Most of the content is available for free reading online in a flash viewer without registration.  There are also some books available for free download in PDF without registration.

    Project Gutenberg (USA) (Children) Large collection divided into sub-categories available for download in several formats.

    ProfessorGarfield offers 11 free books for beginner readers.  These are nicely illustrated and are read in their “toon reader”.  There is an option to have the book read aloud using human voices as the child reads.  Interesting and unique collection.  Available in several languages.  Other activities also available at the site.

    PuzzlEd  is not a book site, but has links to sites offering free books (which will be incorporated here when I have time) and a collection of jigsaw and other puzzles and other activities for children.

    Read.Gov offers 23 classic illustrated books for children for free reading online or free download in PDF.

    Reading Bear A phonics learning site for beginning readers.  Free audio and visual presentations.

    Read Free Book  links to several free children's ebooks at Smashwords, which means they are available for free reading online or free download in several formats.  Half of the books listed are no longer free and half are still free.

    Reading Games has 6 free classic illustrated stories for younger children available for free reading (and read-a-long) online without registration.  There are also some reading and vocabulary games for new readers at the site.

    ReadingHawk has a large collection of Dolch Sight Word stories available for free reading online and some are also available for free download in PDF.  These are intended for beginning readers.

    ReadingIsFundamental offers a variety of free reading and listening activities for toddlers and preschoolers in flash presentations.

    RIF Reading Planet  has an interesting collection of books for online viewing that changes monthly.  Also has activities and games as well as Asian/Pacific, Caribbean, Hispanic and native American sections with books and activities.

    Robert Munsch has about 60 books by Robert Munsch for reading online and read by him available for download in MP3 format.

    RodCockle offers a nice collection of illustrated books for online viewing, as well as games and puzzles for 4-8 year olds. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

    RobTowner has about 15 original stories of his own available for free reading online.  These are in a flash player.  There are also a few available for free download in PDF.  Separated into baby, kids, teens and young adult categories.  He will also write stories upon request.

    Room108KidsStories offers about 25 animated stories, with accompanying music, for reading online.  These are unique stories not found elsewhere.

    Scholastic Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you).  Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog, Alice in Wonderland and a couple of others.

    Scholastic Mini-books has a good selection of stories available to read or print, many of which are free. Suggested by Cathy of PuzzlEd.

    SebastianSwan  a collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.

    Sesame Street has 5 free Sesame Street picture ebooks for free reading online.  Looks like the free books are changed weekly and email updates are available.

    Shay's Imagination  offers the unique stories and poems of Shay for online reading or download in pdf.

    Short Stories Free has 5 free short stories for children available for free reading online.

    SillyBooks has a number of free books available for online reading.  There are also puzzles, games and contests.

    Smashwords has over 300 free ebooks for free online viewing or download in a variety of formats.  These are generally unpublished works and unique to this site.  The site does also offer books for purchase, but all the works in this list are available for free.

    Snapdragon  the BBC of Wales presents the story of Goldilocks for free reading online in their flash player as well as other early learning reading activities.

    Snick's List  monitors Amazon (USA) for limited time free ebooks.  This link is to the Children's Fiction category.  They also monitor Children's Non-Fiction.  They do offer email updates, but not for specific categories.

    Speakaboos has what appears to be a large collection of free stories for reading and listening online.  All are in a flash player.  The site is very slow to load pages.  Each of the images on the page linked seems to lead to at least 4 stories each and the images on the bottom half circle also lead to additional free stories (the ones I check all were accompanied by songs.  Geared to younger children.

    Starfall  has online flash presentations designed for first graders to entertain and educate.

    StoriesForChildren has 8 Christmas stories by Carolyn Rogers for online viewing and apparently some woodland creature stories soon to come.

    StoriesForMyLittleSister is a collection of original stories written by a big sister for her little sister.  Interesting collection of illustrated stories and also other activities.

    StoriestoGrowBy  has a large collection of folk and fairy tales for children from around the world for online viewing.

    Storybird   unites artists and writers to create some excellent illustrated stories.  On the left hand side of the page are the age divisions for the story's readers, ranging from preschool to adult. They claim there is over 5 million stories created there. Every story I saw was available for free reading and viewing online.

    StoryPlace has a few stories for preschooler and elementary school age children presented in flash animation.  This site seems to go off line quite a bit (and back on) as I have added and deleted it several times.

    StoryTimeForMe a nice site with unique entries aimed for toddlers through 2d grade.  Interesting combination of old fashioned animated book and flash video.

    Stuart Stories has 9 free books for beginning readers and about 30 free books for older children.  All are available for free reading online and most are also available for free download in PDF.

    SurLaLuneFairyTales offers a very nice and large collection of fairy tales from around the world for online reading.

    Talewins  has a interesting mix of classics and original books for children available for free viewing online or for free download in PDF.

    The Birmingham Grid For Learning  presents The Tooth Fairy, a story written and illustrated by a 4th grade class for free reading online without registration.

    The Cheap a site that monitors Amazon for its limited time free ebook offerings also offers a section for free book offers for children.

    The Lancashire Grid For Learning  has a nice collection of free ebooks for children of all ages.  Also available are activities related to the books.  All are available for free reading online without registration.  Click on an appropriate section on the left hand side menu to find the books.  This is a UK site with British spelling.

    The Literature for Children Collection a resource from the University of Florida (USA) featuring children books published from before 1850 to beyond 1950.  These are JPG scans visible in their viewer.  Warning that some of these books have racist language.

    TheManorSchool offers a collection of Greek myths and legends for online viewing.  Featured within the stories is the artwork of children of the school.

    TheMoonlitRoad has 11 stories for children for online reading.  A mix of ghost stories, folktales, myths and legends from the American South.

    The Online Books Page  provides links to free books that have either won the Newberry award for outstanding children's books or have received an “Honor” and are in the public domain.  Download and viewing options vary as these are links offsite.

    ThePomplemousse has three original stories about the adventures of Pomplemousse, intended for children and adults.

    The Public Domain Review has 8 classic books for children for for free online viewing within their viewer.  The books originate from Open Library and may be downloaded there.  They also feature a Fairytales/Folk Tales section with 10 free books.  All of these free ebooks are from the late 19th and early 20th century and are nicely illustrated.

    The University of Southern Mississippi  presents The Cinderella Project, which is a compilation of a dozen variations of the classic fairy tale (press on the Archives link).  Also available are the Little Red Riding Hood Project and the Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer project.

    Thunderbolt Kids Siyavula presents free illustrated workbooks and comic books for grades 4 through 6 for free download in PDF.  These are natural science and technology related works.  Free teacher guides are also available.

    ToddlerSchool has a small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also has educational games for younger children.  Suggested by Sefi

    Tonight'sBedtimeStory offers 79 classic fairy tales for download or online viewing in PDF.

    Topmarks  an UK learning site.  This link is to their English section, which has reading materials for children aged 5 to 18.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    Toy Box Productions  offers over 20 original works for free reading online in their flash viewer.  This is split between historical works and Bible stories.

    TumbleBook Cloud Collections the Huntley Library offers free access to the excellent collections of TumbleBooks.  The TumbleBook Library and TumbleBook Jr., collections are the best selections for younger readers.  There are read-a-longs and other reading learning features available.  All are available for free reading online.

    uMassAmherstAesop'sFables offers a collection of Aesop's fables, with illustrations from students in the Computing in the Fine Arts course for online viewing.

    UPenn Digital Library has within its A Celebration of Women Writers collection a section for Newberry honor books written by women (Newberry is an award for children books given out by the Library Association) spanning from 1922 to 1964.  These are available for free reading online without registration.

    Vintage Cookbooks includes in their collection of vintage cookbooks a collection of vintage cookbooks from the late 1800s to 1950s for children.  These will popup in an online reader, but if you look on the upper left of the reader, there is a link to OPen Library where the book may be downloaded in a wide variety of ebook formats.  No registration needed.

    WackyWebTales offers a good size collection of short tales for 3rd graders and above. Geared to help with parts of speech.

    Walking By The Way has an impressive listing of free classic books for children.  It is called a list for Kindle ebooks, but most are available in many ebook formats.

    Web-Books has 92 free classic children's novels.  These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database.  Viewing the downloads requires their Web Viewer (free) which is clean as far as I can tell

    WeGiveBooks has 198 books available for online reading in a flash player.  Reading the books helps to distribute books to children around the world.  Over 1 million books have been read and given away.  Age range is from newborn to teens.  Thanks to aJane for this nice site.

    WikiJunior  age-appropriate non-fiction ebooks for children aged birth to 12 years old available for free reading online without registration.

    WikiSource has a large collection of classic poetry, novels (fiction), fairy tales and educational non-fiction works in their Children portal. All are available for free reading online without registration (the ones in blue are available)

    WiredForBooks has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio.

    Woodlands Junior School  presents a 7 chapter interactive Pokemon story to aid in developing reading skills and apprehension.   This is a UK site with British spelling.

    WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.

    Young Peoples Zone a nice sized collection of classic literature for children available for free reading online without registration.

    YourBedtimeStory There are not a lot of stories and the stories are not very long, but this site does have a nice twist that you can personalize the story.  There are also coloring pages along with the stories.

    ZiggityZoom has 17 free online stories available for reading and listening.  These all are displayed in a flash player.  Geared to younger children.

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    ]]>     Password managers are great at creating unique passwords. Also, users don’t need to remember passwords since these tools store them securely.

    This article, based on intensive research of more than 70 password managers, provides a data-driven list of best password managers available for Linux. All company attributes and features were compared and contrasted to come up with these top 5.

    You may, depending on your needs, come up with a different selection of top password manager tools. Because of this, we highly suggest you participate in our custom password-manager survey so you can layer in your own importance prioritization for each feature.

    We also have domain authority data which is an effective gauge of overall popularity. If you think of any applications or features that we should have included in our comparison analysis, let us know in the comments below.

    We found 40 password manager applications that advertise Linux support. We list the top five applications here, along with three runners up.

    Please see our original research publication on 74 Password Managers Compared that is always kept up-to-date. As of this writing, we are not incentivized in any way by any of these  password manager companies.

    Now, here is our evidence-backed ordered listing of the top five Linux password managers:

    1. LastPass
    2. 1Password
    3. KeePass 2.45
    4. RoboForm 8
    5. Zoho Vault

      6. Runners up:

    6. Myki Password Manager & Authenticator
    7. Enpass Password Manager
    8. Bitwarden

    Top Five Linux Password Managers


    LastPass


    LastPass

    LastPass Comparison Details

    Free trial: 30 Days

    Pricing: $3.00 / Month

    Feature summary: No more password frustration. Easy onboarding, autofill passwords, etc.

    Age of Software/Company: 18.2 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 16.72

    Software Score: 96.71

    Distinctive features:

    • Dark Web / Breached Scan-Monitoring
    • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
    • Training
    • Portable Edition

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Custom API
  • Google
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Microsoft Azure AD
  • Okta
  • OneLogin
  • Oracle
  • SSO Connect


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Portable Edition
  • Training
  • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
  • Dark Web / Breached Scan-Monitoring


    • While there are infrequent issues like slow loading, LastPass has grown into a robust, powerful tool. LastPass is intuitive and gives peace of mind, knowing passwords are secure yet accessible.



    1Password


    1Password

    1Password Comparison Details

    Free trial: 30 Days

    Pricing: $2.99 / Month

    Feature summary: Protects and stores passwords and important info. You only have to remember one master password.

    Age of Software/Company: 19.8 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 16.59

    Software Score: 86.48

    Distinctive features:

    • Portable Edition

  • Apps Love
  • Have I Been Pwned
  • Microsoft Azure AD
  • Okta
  • Slack
  • System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM)


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Portable Edition


    • Though there is a learning curve with 1Password, it integrates well with Apple. The automatic filling of passwords saves much time. For many users this popular tool has become indispensable.



    KeePass 2.45


    KeePass 2.45

    KeePass 2.45 Comparison Details

    Free trial: Fully Free

    Pricing: Free

    Feature summary: Free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.

    Age of Software/Company: 14.5 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 16.41

    Software Score: 85.67

    Distinctive features:

    • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
    • Portable Edition
    • Open Source Code

  • Ubuntu


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Open Source Code
  • Portable Edition
  • Digital Inheritance / Legacy


    • KeePass 2.45 provides 256-bit encryption. The layout and icons could stand updating, but users enjoy it’s reliability, the nice accounts grouping function, and auto filling of passwords.



    RoboForm 8


    RoboForm 8

    RoboForm 8 Comparison Details

    Free trial: 15 Days

    Pricing: $39.95 / Year

    Feature summary: A full service password manager.

    Age of Software/Company: 21.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 14.66

    Software Score: 91.4

    Distinctive features:

    • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
    • Training
    • Portable Edition
    • Open Source Code

  • Active Directory
  • XenApp
  • XenDesktop


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Open Source Code
  • Portable Edition
  • Training
  • Digital Inheritance / Legacy


    • While Roboform 8 does take some time to learn, it easily allows the creation of shared folders for specific groups. Users also enjoy the Identities Feature that allows saving information like credit card numbers, addresses, etc.



    Zoho Vault


    Zoho Vault

    Zoho Vault Comparison Details

    Free trial: Limited

    Pricing: $0.90 / Year

    Feature summary: Store, manage and share passwords, great for teams.

    Age of Software/Company: 8.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 15.27

    Software Score: 85.52

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Box
  • DropBox
  • Google
  • Jira
  • Microsoft Active Directory
  • Microsoft Azure AD
  • Office 365
  • Okta
  • One Drive
  • Service Desk Plus OnDemand
  • Service Now
  • SSO Connect
  • Zendesk
  • Zoho Desk
  • Zoho Mail


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Web Version
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture


    • Most users enjoy Zoho Vault’s ease of use, the two factor authentication option, and the mobile app. A possible improvement would be a password generator included in the right-click auto fill function.


    Top Linux Password Managers – Runners Up


    Myki Password Manager & Authenticator


    Myki Password Manager & Authenticator

    Myki Password Manager & Authenticator Comparison Details

    Free trial: Limited

    Pricing: $3.99 / Year

    Feature summary: Safely manage and store passwords offline, away from the cloud.

    Age of Software/Company: 20.4 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 13.09

    Software Score: 96.38

    Distinctive features:

    • Dark Web / Breached Scan-Monitoring
    • White-Label / Rebranding
    • Training
    • Portable Edition

  • Autotask PSA
  • ConnectWise
  • IT Glue
  • Kaseya BMS


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Portable Edition
  • Training
  • White-Label / Rebranding
  • Dark Web / Breached Scan-Monitoring


    • Myki Password Manager & Authenticator provides great support. While setting up Myki can be a little confusing, users enjoy the “wallet” feature, the Multi-factor Authentication integration and the fact that passwords are stored on users' devices rather than the cloud.



    Enpass Password Manager


    Enpass Password Manager

    Enpass Password Manager Comparison Details

    Free trial: Limited

    Pricing: $2.00 / Month

    Feature summary: Not only password management but also provides handy access to social security numbers, credit cards, and other credentials.

    Age of Software/Company: 6.3 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 14.06

    Software Score: 89.4

    Distinctive features:

    • Proximity / Wearable Support
    • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
    • Portable Edition

  • Cortana


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Data Security Compliance
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Portable Edition
  • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
  • Proximity / Wearable Support


    • Enpass Password Manager app stores users passwords and other info offline and encrypted, on users’ devices. While it doesn’t offer advanced features like two-factor authentication and account inheritance, it does allow users to synchronize their data between different devices using various cloud storage services.



    Bitwarden


    Bitwarden

    Bitwarden Comparison Details

    Free trial: Limited

    Pricing: $1.00 / Month

    Feature summary: Control online password security on any device and keep personal information secure.

    Age of Software/Company: 4.7 Yrs

    Industry thought leadership blog: Click to visit blog.

    Business Score: 12.9

    Software Score: 89.45

    Distinctive features:

    • Digital Inheritance / Legacy
    • Portable Edition
    • Open Source Code

  • Duo Security
  • K Desktop Environment (KDE)
  • SSO Connect


  • Application-Level Encryption
  • Windows OS Support
  • Android Support
  • iOS Support
  • Cloud Support
  • Mac OS Support
  • Chrome Support Integration
  • Firefox Support Integration
  • Export Data
  • Generate Password
  • Bulk Password Import
  • Multi-factor Authentication / Access
  • Auto Fill Login / Data Forms
  • Single Sign-on System (SSO) / App Password
  • Sync with other Devices
  • Local Installation
  • Edge-IE Support Integration
  • Multi-Language Support
  • Secure Sharing
  • Safari Support Integration
  • Linux Support
  • Team Function: Share Info
  • Application Programming Interface Enhanced
  • Quick Response (QR) Code Support
  • Biometrics Login: Eye, Face, etc.
  • Other Browsers Integration
  • Actionable Password Strength Report
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Autosave Password Capture
  • Open Source Code
  • Portable Edition
  • Digital Inheritance / Legacy


    • Bitwarden is easy to set up and user-friendly. While browser plugins are sometimes difficult to understand at first, most users find it hard to find a weak point with this password manager.


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    Introduction

    eBook imageThis is a listing of 300+ sites that legally offer free books for reading online without download and without registration.  The sites listed here may offer downloads, but also offer all of their free ebooks for reading online.

    To the best of my knowledge all of the websites listed here offer only content that they are legally entitled to transfer to you. If you find a site listed here that you know illegally offers copyrighted material, please contact me through the site with a link to the infringing content.

    To the best of my knowledge every website listed here, and its downloads, are safe. By the rules of this site, no website that has a red or an orange rating at Web of Trust (WOT) is allowed in the listings. I also use LinkExtend, a browser addon that offers the ratings from six other website rating products, to verify the sites here are clean. I have never encountered any issue while visiting these sites. Additionally, I have downloaded something from every site that offers a download and have never encountered an issue. If you should ever encounter malware on any of these sites, please contact me through the site and provide the link to the offending content. Mr6n8

    This list is not comprehensive and if you know of any other sites please post in the comments below or at our forums.

    A comprehensive alphabetical listing of free books for reading or listening can be found on these pages:

    There will be other sites listed there that have some of their free books for reading online, but not all of the free ebooks are available for reading online.

    Libraries are also an excellent source for reading and listening materials.  To find out more information on your local library, the links here may help:  Library Information

    [Doakio Editor's Note: This article was restored from Gizmo's Freeware archives as a service to the freeware community. Gizmo's Freeware provided high-quality, volunteer freeware reviews for decades. They shut down in July of 2021.]

     

    Sites For Free eBook Reading Online

    221B Baker Street has the 48 (of 60) works in the public domain in the USA of the Sherlock Holmes Canon available for free reading online.  Some are also available for download in PDF.

    365Tomorrows  a free science fiction short story per day for online viewing.  They have been online since August, 2005, so there is a large collection of works here.

    AaronShephard'sWorldof Stories  is a nicely categorized collection of stories from around the world for online reading.  The listings give the appropriate age for reading, length of the story and origin.

    A Buddhist Library has over 400 books and 6,000 articles primarily covering Buddhism, but with a good number of works on world religions.  All that I looked at were for free online reading.

    Accounting Coach  offers free courses in Accounting for free reading online without registration.

    AdamDecker offers his novel, The Janitor, for free reading online.  He also offers some free short stories and poems.

    Aesop's Fables  offers 655+ of the Aesop fables for free online reading as well as 127 fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen and the fable of Jean Fontaine (17 and being added to).  There are also a couple of L. Frank Baum stories and Dickens' , A Christmas Carol.  Also available are 37 audio versions.

    A Europe of Tales   has free stories from 5 different European countries available for free reading online in a flash player.  There are several stories for each country.   Very nice graphics.

    A First Course in Linear Algebra an introductory college level textbook available for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration.

    Al-Islam has a large collection of Islamic works in its library available for free online viewing.  There is also software and audio available.  Clicking on the appropriate icons in the library will show the available works in each.  Received the following comment from Zeeshan Ali regarding this site “Please make a correction here. This link and collection here represent a sect of Islam i.e. Shia, who are not concurrent in many manners to many of Muslims and Islam.”

    Allen Morgan offers quite a few of his stories and novels for children for free reading online without registration.

    AllKindsOfThingsKill is a collection of 9 short horror stories by Robert Best available for online viewing.

    AlvieTheLittleBrownBurro  has seven Alvie stories to read online or download in MP3.

    AmazingAdventureSeries  offers the children story “June the Prune” for free reading online.  The story can also be heard by pressing the audio button at the top of the page.

    AmericanFolklore  offers many folk stories from USA, Canada and Mexico as well as Native American for online viewing.

    American Literature  has a large collection of free classic ebooks available for free reading online without registration.  They also have a nice little collection of free stories for children available for free reading online.  These have some nice illustrations.

    AndersenFairyTales offers several of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales for free online reading in a flash player.  Also available are associated activities.

    Animated Tall Tales offers the flash animated story of Paul Bunyan for free reading online.

    Antique Books has an interesting collection of classic novels, including 20 of the classic Golden Books for free online viewing without registration.

    Archive.org (Children's Library)  large collection of children's books available for online viewing (original books) and download

    ArmenianStoryTeller  has a few Armenian stories and poems available for free reading online.

    Arthur's Classic Novels – Over 4000 novels covering a great variety of topics, nicely separated into categories and “best” lists.  Some very interesting entries here.  Available for online viewing.

    ArtofTravel offers the ebook, How to See the World, backpacking on $25 a day or less for free reading online.

    Athenaeum Library of Philosophy a large collection of works in a wide variety of sub-categories.  All the ones that I checked were available for free reading online without registration.

    Authonomy a website set up by Harper Collins publishing for unpublished authors to display their works.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    Authorama offers a few hundred books, searchable by author, for online viewing.

    BABBooks  is a children's site that has 25 free illustrated books available for online reading or listening.

    Baby School   has a small collection of online flash books for toddlers and young children.

    BaenCD – A small collection of science fiction books from Baen's promotional CDs.  They are downloadable in a variety of formats as well as viewable online.

    BaldwinLibraryofChildren'sLiterature has almost 6,000 classic , but unique, children's books for free viewing online.  the ones I looked at had beautiful illustrations.  A caution that some of the works are unacceptable by today's standards due to the view of minorities at that time.  Not related to the above as far as I can tell.

    Baldwin Online Children's Projects 520 classic  children's books in a variety of genres for online viewing.

    BannerBooks offers 5 unique books for reading online.

    Bartleby – the Harvard classics, poetry and encyclopedias.  Available for free reading online and some also available for free download in PDF..

    BBCSchools   has three online illustrated books for young children that can be viewed with or without audio.

    Bedtime-Story has a large collection of illustrated books for online viewing.  Some are classics and others are unique stories separated into unusual categories.

    Bibliomania – Over 2,000 classic novels, study guides, biographies and more.  HTML only.

    Bibliotastic offers a good amount of free books in quite a few categories for free online reading.

    Bill Smith Books  offers the first book of his Outlaw Galaxy trilogy for free reading online without registration.  Also available for free reading online are some short stories from the Outlaw Galaxy.

    Black Mask has a good size collection of free ebooks, offered in blog like form.  All the ones I saw were available for free reading online, free download in Kindle, ePub and PDF, without registration.  This is not associated with Black Mask magazine.

    Book-bot  14,571 books available for online viewing in their easy to view reader.  Very nice find by fellow editor Rhiannon.

    BookGlutton is a collection of 1200+ books for online reading with the added  feature of  groups available for discussion of the readings.  Nice combination of reading and socializing.  Suggested by an anonymous poster. Free registration and starting of a group now required.

    BookRix   is a mix of classic and new ebooks.  There are over 16,500 free ebooks available in several general categories.  The reading online is in a popup window that reads as an ordinary book.  There are some classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are also many unique entries here.  The adult oriented books require registration to read or download.  Downloads in  epub, Sony, Stanza (iPhone) or their BookRix formats.

    Booksie has a huge collection of free works in a wide variety of categories.  These range from short stories to novels and are unique works of unpublished authors.  All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF (press “Generate eBook” button).

    BooksShouldBeFree While primarily a good sized collection of audio books, each of the books is available for online reading or for download in a variety of formats.

    Bookstacks is a small collection (100+) of classic works available for online viewing, with many also available in Adobe PDF and Microsoft Reader versions.  Nicely set up.

    Book Strand  offers 350 free romance novels in varying ebook formats.  All appear to be available for free reading online, free EPUB download and some free Kindle compatible download, as well as some other formats.  Free registration is required to complete the checkout.

    BritishLibrary has a virtual books section with a small, but interesting, collection for online viewing.

    BrowzerBooks  has an interesting collection of novels in a wide variety of genres (check bottom of page for links to genres) either available for online reading or download in pdf.

    Buddhist Publication Society  offers a good sized selection of literature on Buddhism, most of which are available for free  reading online (signified by T) without registration.

    CandlelightStories  has a good number of stories from the Arabian nights collection as well as other story books available for online reading.

    Carrie  is an electronic library with a large number of free books in its collection.  There is a good sized listing of books under copyright loaned to the library as well as many collections of books offering free novels.  From what I could see all are available for free reading online.

    CBeebies  is a BBC site that offers a good number of free stories, in flash, for online reading and listening.  Also, has games, music and coloring books.

    Century Past Library has a large collection including thousands of books, magazines, podcasts, Videos, photos and maps.

    CheeseburgerBrown offers 41 of his science fiction short stories for free viewing online.  Some are also available for download in pdf or kindle.   also offers a novel for free reading online

    ChestofBooks Large collection, divided into categories, for online viewing.  Nice collection.

    Child Bible Story Online  has 116 illustrated bible stories available for free reading online.

    Children's Bedtime Stories  offer 20 free stories for free reading online.  These are original stories by Gordon Dioxide

    Children's Books Online is an excellent collection (600+) of illustrated antique children's books for viewing online.   They are also available for download at a fee.  This little gem was suggested by an anonymous poster.

    Children'sLibrary.org   has a large collection of books for online viewing.  Many appear to be unique classic works that are finely illustrated.  Books can be filtered by age, length and fiction/non-fiction.

    ChildStoryHour offers a good number of stories for free reading online.  Included are Beatrix Potter, Andersen Fairy Tales, Native American folklore as well as other stories and poems.  There are also other activities at the site.

    ChildrenStory Info  a children site that offers a nice collection of fairy tales for online viewing as well as Bible stories and coloring books.

    ChildStoryTeller  has a good number of short stories and nursery rhymes for reading online.  No illustrations to speak of and most of the stories are classics that can be found elsewhere, but there are a few unique entries here.

    CK-12.Org  has a large collection of free textbooks and study aids.  All are available for free reading online and free download in PDF, MOBI and EPUB.

    ClarkesworldMagazine offers free science fiction short stories for online viewing and also some audio versions.  A winner of the 2010 Hugo award for best Semiprozine.  Thanks to Knight_of_Pentacles for this.

    Classic Authors.net contains the works of over a hundred authors (and short biography for each), with a varying number of works per author.  Online viewing only.

    Classic Book Shelf Electronic Library offers the works of 50+ authors in varying amounts.  Online viewing only.

    ClassicHistoryBooks offers 6 unique works for online viewing.

    ClassicHorrorStories has a very nice, and large, collection of classic short horror stories for online viewing.

    Classic Literature Library Decent size collection that has complete works of a small variety of authors and works of others and a nice children's section available for online viewing.

    Classic Reader offers thousands of free classic books for online viewing.

    Cleave Books small collection of free classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

    Connexions a large collection of free textbooks and other educational resources.  The ones I checked were available for free reading online as well as free download in PDF or EPUB without registration.  All appear to be college level.

    Craft&FabricLinks has a free business book, Start and Run Your Own Business, available for free reading online.

    Critical Theory   has links to 5 well known classics of Philosophy.  All are to Project Gutenberg and are available in the usual wide variety of formats as well as free reading online without registration.

    DagonBytes has a collection of free classic gothic novels as well as some classic Vampire novels available for free reading online.

    DailyLit – Read books online by daily email or RSS feed. Over 700 titles.

    Daily Science Fiction  is a webzine that offers a collection of science fiction short stories for free online reading.  You can also subscribe (free) to have daily mailings of the works.  If you scroll down the page linked, on the right hand side is a sub-categoriztion of the free science fiction works.  Thanks to Allyson Erick for this site.

    Dark Planet  a collection of original short stories for online reading.  The site has not been updated in a while, but all the links seem to work.

    David Palme  offers some free short stories of horror as well as a novella for free reading online or free download in PDF.

    David Peters  offers his book, Don's Spank Hank, for free reading online or free download in SWF or PDF.  There is also a narrated version available at YouTube.  Nicely illustrated and 60 pages long.  Intended for beginnging readers.

    DigiLibraries has a very interesting collection of over 20,000 free novels available for free reading online as well as free download in MOBI or EPUB without registration.

    Digital History  a complete history of the USA available for free reading online without registration.

    Disney.Go offers the free picture book, Lady and the Tramp, for free reading online in their flash player.

    DivineLifeSociety over 200 books on Yoga, religion and philosophy available for free download in PDF or free online reading.

    DominicGreen offers 4 of his science fiction novels for free reading online.

    EarlyMysteryNovels has a good deal of information and links on mystery writers from the 1700s to the early 1900s.  Some of the links are to pay sites, but most are to free collections online.  A good way to find novels by author and a lot of good general information on the mystery genre.

    EastofTheWeb offers a good number of scifi short works for reading online.  Thanks to Panzer for this.

    eBook Cafe Several hundred free classic ebooks available for free reading online or free download n PDF, without registration.

    eBookNook  A good number of stories, mostly romance, but some children and vampire stories available for online reading.

    eBooks@Adelaide a great collection of works from the University of Adelaide.  All are available for online viewing and have links for printing.  Many are also available in ePub.  Thanks to Ana for this valuable source.

    eBooksCube has a good size collection of classics available for online viewing.

    EdgarAllenPoeSocietyofBaltimore offers free reading online of the Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (a comprehensive collection of e-texts of all of Poe’s writings, from the original sources and with multiple versions as revised during his lifetime).

    Eldritch Dark  has a large collection of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith available for free reading online without registration.

    EldritchPress has a good sized collection of public domain works with some unique categorization.

    Electric Scotland  has over 800 free childrens books, for children of all ages, available for free reading online.  These are unique and original stories and many are illustrated.

    EnglishNovelsNet presents English novels in blog form and has 6 complete novels available for free reading online.

    eServer.org interesting collection of classic novels and short stories available for free reading online.

    eText.lib The University of Virginia online library has a large collection of works available for online viewing (some are available in Microsoft Reader).  Even though a good number are limited to UVA students and staff, there is still a good amount of interesting material available to the general public.  Suggested by poster mike dutch.

    Every Day Fiction a short story per day for free reading online.  All stories are 1000 words or fewer to fill in those short free times.  eMail updates available.

    EWTN Libraries   the global catholic network has a large collection of works regarding the Catholic religious beliefs available for free reading online without registration.

    Fahim Farook  offers his humorous science fiction novel, Honest, The Martian Ate your dog, for free download or online viewing.

    Fantastic Metropolis around 150 free science fiction short stories for free online reading.  (Temp Down?)

    FarmhouseFables  offers 5 short story books about the little creatures that have made their home in the meadow next to the old farmhouse.

    Farrago's Wainscot 12 issues of short stories and poetry available for free reading online.

    Feed eBooks interesting collection divided into many categories.  The titles I looked at all seemed to be unique to this site.  All are available for free reading online.

    FeedingAmerica offers an excellent collection of close to 80 cookbooks.  These are available for reading online or for download in PDF.  Thanks to Susan B for this suggestion.

    Fiction eBooks is a interesting small collection of works of fiction (including some Beatrix Potter illustrated childrens books) as well as some books for writers and works philosophy and sociology.  Online viewing only.

    FictionPress  is a growing network over 1 million writers/readers, and home to over 1,200,000 original works by unsigned authors.

    Figment large collection of writings including short stories, poetry and novels.   These are unique works from unpublished authors.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    Financial Management Training Center  offers a good number of business courses for free reading online without registration and free download in PDF.

    FireBlade Fiction a smaller, but interesting, collection of classic works available for online reading.

    Flat World Knowledge college textbooks available for free reading online.

    FlightSimBooks 21 classic flight simulation books available for free reading online.

    Foboko over 2,000 free ebooks available for free reading online or free download in TXT, PDF, EPUB, MOBIPocket and direct send to Kindle.  Free registration is required (I have received no spam) and there is a limit of 5 downloads per month (no limit on reading online).  There are some unique entries here.

    FolkTexts the University of Pittsburgh presents a large collection of folklore from around the world for free reading online.

    FreeClassicBooks offers about 30 of the more popular classic books for free reading online.

    Free Doors.org   has many of the Baen CDs available.  A nice feature is that the stories are available individually to read online or download in various formats, including EPUB, for free.  No registration required.

    Free Irish Biography eBooks  provides links to free ebooks of biographies of people with Irish heritage.  The links I looked at were all to the Open Library and were for free reading online without registration.  If you click on the Open Library link on the upper left, you will have several options of formats for free download.

    Free Math Help  offers online courses in a variety of Math related fields for free reading online (videos available also) without registration.  These appear to be middle and high school level courses.

    FreeOn-LineBooks Interesting collection on individualist feminism and libertarianism available for online viewing.

    FreeOnlineChristianBooks  several hundred books available for online viewing

    Free Online Novels Interesting collection for online viewing.  Several hundred novels separated into categories.

    FreeQuickRecipes  3 cookbooks available for download in pdf and a large amount of recipes for online viewing as well as other information on kitchen and diet

    Frontier Tales Magazine  offers free western short stories for reading online.  These are unique works.

    GailSpencerLamm  offers her illustrated ebook, Emily's Patience, for free online viewing or download.

    Gavin Williams  offers his 10 novel series, The Surprising Life and Death of Diggory Franklin, for free reading online.  Also included are 7 other works that continue the story.  A romance mystery novel.

    Giggle Poetry  a large collection of funny poetry for children available for free reading online.  Also, a poetry class for children to learn to write poetry and other activites are available for free.

    Gilead.org  provides many of the fairy tales and stories of Hans Christian Andersen.  These are available for free reading online without registration.

    GoldenGems  a collection of little golden books and other illustrated books for children for online viewing and saving as jpg.

    GoodnightStories  is a nice little collection of unique children stories for reading online.  A good number of the stories were written by children.  Some other activities and printable coloring pages are also available.

    Goodreads  has a collection of 55 free science fiction audiobooks, all of which are also available for free download in PDF, EPUB or MOBIPocket (Kindle) or free reading online without registration.

    GooglePlay google does not make it easy to find the free books in their collection.  This is a link to the top free books.  More free ebooks may be found by doing a search and choosing Free Only in the results.  Choosing a category and the Free Only option also shows more results.   All are available for free reading online.

    Grace Eliazabeth Baker  offers her serial novel, The House of Sever, for free reading online.  As of now, this is really more like 3 novels.

    Greening IT  a collaborative effort to help in reducing the carbon footprint in IT.   Available for free download in PDF or free reading online without registration.

    Green Tea Press  has a dozen of their books for free download in PDF or free reading online.  These appear to be quality texts.

    GrimmFairyTales has a small collection of The Grimm's fairy tales for free reading online in a flash player.  Also available are some associated activities.

    HarlequinExtras offers 269 free romance novels for reading online.  These are printable and also may be sorted into various categories.

    Historical Text Archive has 74 free ebooks of history covering various continents.  These are all available for free reading online.  Click on the “TOC” (Table of Contents) link on the book page to read.

    Hopcott.Net has a small but unique collection of novels, novellas and short stories for online viewing.  Genres include romance, mystery, ghost science fiction and horror.

    HotFreeEBooks an excellent site for reading books online.  They boast over 20,000 ebooks and you can adjust font size and contrast for your reading pleasure.  Thanks to Jan Lonner for this excellent suggestion.

    H.P.Lovecraft Archive   offers all of the works of H.P.Lovecraft for online viewing.  Also offers information about him and links to other Lovecraft sites.

    H.P. Lovecraft.com has an excellent archive of the works of the horror master available for free reading online.

    Infinite Matrix  has a huge collection of free short stories by a wide variety of authors available for free reading online without registration.

    Infinity Plus unique collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories available for free reading online without registration.

    Infomotions – 14,000 listings from full classic novels to Western philosophy.  HTML only.

    InklessTales  offers 15 children stories for online viewing as well as games, poems and activities.

    InterActMath   offers about 20 free textbooks for free online use. These are for middle school students.  The 6th grade book I looked at seemed to be a very basic course, more like for younger users, but they do have a good reputation.  Press the enter button up top, the links across the bottom are for their pay sites.

    InternationalChildrensDigitalLibrary nice collection of children's books from around the world in a variety of languages and nicely categorized, available for online viewing.

    Internet Sacred Text Archive very interesting and large collection of books on religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric available for online viewing.

    Invent With Python  offers the free ebook, Invent Your Own Games With Python, for free reading online or free download in PDF without registration.

    IPL2  has 10 free stories for free reading online without registration.

    IXL  lists the State standards for Mathematics in the USA and offers free online instruction to help meet those standards.

    Izzy's Public Domain Library  offers a large collection of free classic novels for free download in EPUB.  There is also a link to the HTML  for free reading online for most and a link to Librivox for the audio version where available.  Unfortunately, the HTML and audio links are not noted in the listing.

    Jackee'sCorner   has romance novels of Jackee Connor for available for free download in pdf and lit.  There are 4 completed novels, 4 works in progress and 5 short stories.  All are also available for free reading online.

    JamesDunavant offers his book, The Keepers of  Forever, for download in HTML. or online viewing.  A download compatible with Palm Pilot is also available.

    Jean Gallier offers a collection of his math books for free reading online.

    Jeff Inlo offers his book, Alien Cradle, for download in a large variety of formats and for online reading.

    JesusandKidz offers a good number of illustrated bible stories for free reading online.  Also available are coloring pages, puzzles and songs.

    Jiddu-Krishnamurti.net  a collection of works of the philosopher, Jiddu Krishnamurti.  All except one are available for free reading online.

    Joggoon offers 90 free ebooks in various categories for free reading online. (optimized for the tablet).

    John Carter of Mars  Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., offers all of the novels of his Barsoom series for free reading online.  The first 6 of the novels are in the public domain and the remaining are available for research purposes only.  Not sure what that means, but I guess it is OK to read them online, but not distribute in any way.

    Jolly Roger has a extensive collection of classical works available for free reading online.

    Journeyof theHeart   offers the works of Judith Bronte for free.  These romance novels are available for download in pdf or reading online.  There are 7 completed works and a couple in progress.

    Kellscraft Studio Around 250 books available for online viewing.  Kellscraft lists out of print, public domain novels, most published prior to 1923.  Searchable by title, author and topic.

    KidsNurseryRhymes  a British site featuring over 1200 nursery rhymes for online viewing.  Also has sing along rhymes (must have midi player-available there) and some nursery rhyme disco recordings available for download in MP3.

    Kids World Fun has 81 free ebooks for children available for free reading online or free download in PDF without registration.  There are also 21 animated read-a-long stories available for free viewing online.  There are also free poems and short stories as well as games at the site.

    KimberlyComeaux offers 2 of her full length novels and 2 short stories for free reading online.

    Kindersay  is a site for free preschool learning activities.  ABCs. short stories and sign language subjects available in a free flash player presentation.  Free registration is available for extra features, but not necessary to access subjects.

    Kindersite offers a good number of stories in flash for reading and listening online as well as lullabies, music and games for younger children.

    KOL Jr has 44 free picture ebooks for free reading online in a flash player.  These all come with audio for read-a-long.

    Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive  has a good sized collection of free ebooks regarding Buddhism.  All are available for free download in PDF or free reading online without registration.

    Land of Nursery Rhymes  large collection of nursery rhymes for free reading and listening online.  Other activities available.

    Learn Library has 40 classic novels available for free reading online without registration.

    LettersToMyMother  has the romance novel,  “Letters to my Mother”, by Rebecca Heath available for free online reading or free download in PDF.

    Library of Classic Novels nice size collection of classic works, weighted towards USA writers, available for free reading online.

    LibraryofCongress    maintains a nice collection of classic children's books in its Childrens Literature collection of its Rare Book section.  these are available for online reading and download in pdf.  These are illustrated copies and are a nice mix of well known and unusual.

    Light Up Your Brain is primarily known as an children's audio book site, but they also provide a copy of the stories for free reading online.

    LilFingers Storybooks Small collection of books for very young children for reading and being read to.

    Literarium has a small collection of classic works available for online viewing.  A nice collection of Sherlock Holmes, some interesting historical documents and a few unique classic works.

    Literature.org has a collection of classics, arranged by author,  for online viewing.

    LiteratureNetwork has over 1900 full books and over 3000 short stories and poems by over 250 authors available for online reading.  Searchable by author and they have a few unusual ones.

    LiteraturePost 825 works from 71 authors available for online viewing.

    Little Critters  A dozen free stories in their interactive read and play section presented in a flash player.  Other activities also available.  The library section is just a listing of books that are for sale.

    LiverpoolMuseum  offers the stories of 4 children taken into slavery on their trip from Africa to the Americas in 1780.  The stories start with their life in Africa and continue until the Americas.  Some make the trip alive and some do not.  Each is from a different tribe in Africa.

    LLeeLowe offers two novels and some short stories for reading or listening online.

    LongLongTimeAgo  is a large collection of fables, myths, folk tales, fairy tales and more from around the world.  These are available for reading online.

    Lovecraft Ezinehas links to 3 free graphic books based upon works of H.P. Lovecraft.  All are available for free viewing online without registration.

    Mac Tutor History Of Mathematics a very nice layout of the history of math with information on different cultures and the different topics.  All available for free reading online without registration.

    Magickeys small, but interesting, and unusual, collection of childrens books for online viewing.

    MartiinKolacek  offers his science fiction/comedy book for free download in PDF or for Kindle.  Also available offsite for free download in ePub or prc (Palm) and for free reading online.  Originally available in Czech language and now in English.  Thanks to “Werst” for the information on this.

    Math Alive   Princeton University offers several college level math courses lecture notes, labs and other course materials for a mix of free download in PDF and free viewing online without registration.

    MatheBookNet   offers free math texts divided into kindergarden, elementary school, middle school and high school.  All are available for free download in PDF or for online use in a unique virtual classroom.

    Math Open Reference   a collection of free textbooks in Mathematics fields available for free reading online without registration.  There is a notice about an application running on the page.  This is due to the interactive portion of the textbooks and as far as I can tell is not harmful.

    MegaMouseBooks offers about a dozen books by Emma Laybourn for free reading online or free download in ePub or Mobi formats.  Age range is from 6 to early teens.  Associated crossword puzzles are also available.

    MerpyStories offers several animated flash stories, with accompanying music, for online viewing.  The unique stories of Merpy, Jeremy Dragonfly and Rufus the Firefly available in English and Spanish.  Other activities available.

    MetaReligion has an extensive listing of works for all major world religions as well as some minor religions and ancient myths.  All appear to be for online viewing.

    Michael Hardgrove  offers his illustrated book, “The Echo and the Pixie” for free reading online.

    MichaelPalin  Former Python Michael Palin has made a name for himself lately as a brilliant travel-writer and has made six of his travel books available for online viewing.  They are spread across many pages, so not very practical to download.

    Middle City   offers free online Accounting tutorials for free reading online without registration.

    Mills&Boon offer online reads of romance novels from best selling authors.  These are released in serials, with a new chapter every 2-4 days, but older releases are available making this a nice collection.

    Mills & Boon Australia   has a few hundred novellas available for free reading online without registration.

    Montware offers the full length Irish romance novel, Caroline, by Una (Lavery) Montgomery for free reading online.

    Mother Goose Club  a collection of nursery rhymes available for free reading online without registration.  Also, some songs, videos and coloring pages.

    Motion Mountain a free Physics textbook available for free reading online or free download in PDF, with color images and embedded video and animations, without registration.

    Munsey'sMobile offers a large collection of free novels divided into many categories.  These are all available for free viewing online and are also available for download in PDF, PRC and ePUB.  These appear to be different works than those available on the regular Munsey's site, above.

    Murray and Madelief  two writers from different parts of the world who collaborate online and who have  posted a fantasy short story and chapter 1 of a science fiction novel, both of which are available for free download, without registration, in Kindle compatible MOBI.

    MuseumofUnnaturalHistory has a small collection of illustrated childrens' stories for online viewing. these are unique stories not found elsewhere.

    MyKidsCorner  offers a good number of stories, interactive stories, rhymes, alphabet, games and puzzles and pictures for children aged 3 to 7.  All are available for free online reading.

    MysteryNet has a interesting collection of original online mysteries for visitors to solve as well as mystery short stories.  Also, a nice childrens section.

    MysteryNetKids  has a good size collection of mysteries for children to solve.  There are 28 “Solve-It” stories, 29 “Chiller” stories from the Darkmaster,  28 “Quick Solve” stories, 28 Magic Tricks and 21 mystery stories written by children that won the mystery writing contest at the site.

    MysteryNovelist  offers the romance mystery, Snow Angels, by Barbara W. Klaser for free reading online

    MyYoungChild  has a good variety of free stories designed for value building in children aged 3 to 7.  Some are read only, presented as images and some are listen alongs, presented in videos.

    Neverpedia  has a complete listing of the Peter Pan novels available for free reading online.

    Nice Stories several thousand free works in its adults section and a few hundred in its under 18 section separated into categories.  All are available for free reading online.  These all appear to be unique works.

    Northpole  good sized collection of free Christmas related stories to read on line (or have read aloud).  Flash presentation on main page to access stories and hidden stories to find.

    Online Library of Liberty hosts over an interesting collection of over 1,100 books available for online viewing and also for download.

    OnlineMathematicsTextbooks  This site is courtesy of Georgia Tech University and offers 77 free math textbooks for free online reading or for free download in PDF (click on chapter heading for PDF link – download is chapter by chapter).

    Online Programing Books large collection of  free computer and mathematics books for free reading online and free download in PDF.

    OpenLibraryOrg has a huge collection of free novels available for reading online and for download in a large variety of options.  Over 1,000,000 titles available.  A great resource-thanks to Robert Collins for this.

    OpenStax College  has only a few textbooks, but they appear to be high quality.  All are available for free reading online or free download in PDF or EPUB.

    OxfordOwl has over 250 free ebooks for free reading online in a flash player.  Age range is from 3 to 11.  Audio and associated activites are also available for most, if not all, the free ebooks.  Thanks to Katharine for this nice link.

    PagebyPage a few hundred works available for online viewing.

    Pages of Romance  offers about 7 free short stories for free reading online without registration.  Look on the right hand side of the page for links to the free stories.

    Paul's Online Math Notes provides free materials for college level mathematics courses.  These are available for free viewing online as well as free download in PDF.  No registration necessary.

    PennLibraries has several special collections for online viewing, including a Celebration of Women Writers.

    PerseusDigitalLibrary – A large collection of classical texts broken down to time period written.  All available for free reading online.

    Philosophy Pages  provides links to the works of Philosophy within its discussions.  The site provides 3 methods of finding information. History, Timeline and Major Philosophers.  The links are offsite, but all of the ones I checked were available for free reading online without registration.

    Planet Math huge collection of math related material.  All the items I looked at were available for free online viewing at the site.  No registration needed.

    PlanetOzKids  has an interesting collection of stories relating to myths about animals.  Also available are detective stories to work along with.  All available for online viewing.

    Popular Children's Stories  a nice collection of stories for children available for free reading online without registration.  Most are short stories, with some longer ones.

    Professor Garfield  Garfield the cat hosts a website with a good collection of original and unique stories for younger readers (press the Read button on the home page).  Most of the content is available for free reading online in a flash viewer without registration.

    Project Gutenberg Australia over 1600 novels and an assortment of other works, by Australian authors or regarding Australia, available in varying ways, including text, pdf and online viewing.  All are available for free reading online, either as text or html.

    Project Gutenberg Canada a huge collection of free classic novels.  All are available for free reading online and free download in usually PDF or TEXT without registration.

    PublicBookShelf around 150 books in varying categories for online viewing.

    PublicDomain A very interesting site as it not only has links to classic novels for online reading, but also has links to audio books and movie adaptations of the novels.   Thanks to Rapunzel for this excellent suggestion.

    PublicLiterature Has some unique public domain novels among its classic collection of around 100 books.  Also has a large selection of writings submitted by authors which are free and legal to download, but not to distribute.  All are available for online viewing and download in several formats.

    Rachel Starr Thomson  offers “World's Unseen”, the first of her “The Seventh World” trilogy for free download in a variety of formats, as well as online viewing at Smashwords.

    ReadaRomance  offers a good size collection of romantic short stories for online viewing.

    ReadBookOnline has a nice collection of classics available for online viewing.

    ReadCentralover 5,000 free classic books for reading online.

    ReadEasily – Small collection of works that has option for larger print.  HTML only.

    Read.Gov offers 23 classic illustrated books for children for free reading online or free download in PDF.

    Reading Bear A phonics learning site for beginning readers.  Free audio and visual presentations.

    Reading Games has 6 free classic illustrated stories for younger children available for free reading (and read-a-long) online without registration.  There are also some reading and vocabulary games for new readers at the site.

    ReadingHawk has a large collection of Dolch Sight Word stories available for free reading online and some are also available for free download in PDF.  These are intended for beginning readers.

    ReadPrint – Thousands of books, poems and short stories available for free reading online without registration.

    Read Sherlock has the complete works of Sherlock Holmes available for free online reading.  Nice feature that you can save you location in the work by clicking on the paragraph.

    RegencyRomanceNovels offers one complete romance novel for free reading online.  The other listings are for the first few chapters of come of their offerings.

    Religion-Online  over 6,000 works on religion and society available for online viewing.

    RobBeezerPhD   offers his textbook, A First course in Linear Algebra, for free reading online and free download in PDF.

    RobertBAshProfessorEmeritusMathematics  offers 8 of his math novels for free reading online or free download in PDF.  Also offered are free PDF copies of his lectures on statistics.

    RobTowner  has about 15 original stories of his own available for free reading online.  These are in a flash player.  There are also a few available for free download in PDF.  Separated into baby, kids, teens and young adult categories.  He will also write stories upon request.

    RodCockle offers a nice collection of illustrated books for online viewing, as well as games and puzzles for 4-8 year olds. Suggested by Cathy of  PuzzlEd.

    Rolf A.F. Witzsche offers 14 of his novels for online viewing, download in pdf or as audio books in MP3/M4B.  12 of the novels are part of his “The Lodging of the Rose” series.

    Romantic4Ever offers 2 free ebooks by author, Joan Reeves, as well as some short story romance fiction for reading online.

    RomanticMarriageStories  features romance works about married life.  These short stories present a high view of marriage and portray the fun a romantic couple can have in a happy and sexy marriage.  All available for free reading online without registration.

    Scholastic Small collection of children's books available for online viewing (or read to you).  Featuring Clifford the Big Red Dog.

    SebastianSwan  a collection of Sebastian Swan stories for online viewing.

    Sesame Street has 5 free Sesame Street picture ebooks for free reading online.  Looks like the free books are changed weekly and email updates are available.

    SFWA The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America offers some short stories and novellas of its members for free reading online or download in PDF.

    ShadowUnit  is an ongoing “story about a group of unrealistically sexy FBI agents struggling to protect humanity from the worst monsters imaginable”.  Episodes are viewable online (with optional music) and some parts are available for download.  Features a wiki and an opportunity to talk to the story's characters.

    Shakespeare's Plays The complete texts of Shakespeare plays with explanatory notes, from your trusted Shakespeare source.  All available for free reading online without registration.  Suggested by Sea Mac.

    Shay's Imagination  offers the unique stories and poems of Shay for online reading or download in pdf.

    Short Fiction is a site for free short stories.  There are over 6,000 short stories in the various Romance and Erotic categories (over 18).  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    Short Stories Free has a nice collection of free short stories in various genres available for free reading online.

    Smashwords has a very large collection of free ebooks from independent authors and publishers.  These are available for download in a wide variety of formats, including KINDLE, EPUB and PDF among others, as well as for online viewing.

    Snapdragon  the BBC of Wales presents the story of Goldilocks for free reading online in their flash player as well as other early learning reading activities.

    SolarDrift  An ongoing science fiction novel by Martin A. Hale.  Episodes are available for online viewng.  He also offers a few of his short stories for online viewing.

    Speakaboos has what appears to be a large collection of free stories for reading and listening online.  All are in a flash player.  The site is very slow to load pages.  Each of the images on the page linked seems to lead to at least 4 stories each and the images on the bottom half circle also lead to additional free stories (the ones I check all were accompanied by songs.  Geared to younger children.

    Starry FreeOnlineNovels small collection, but some interesting entries, available for online viewing.

    StoriesForChildren  has 8 Christmas stories by Carolyn Rogers for online viewing and apparently some woodland creature stories soon to come.

    StoriestoGrowBy  has a large collection of folk and fairy tales for children from around the world for online viewing.

    Storybird   unites artists and writers to create some excellent illustrated stories.  On the left hand side of the page are the age divisions for the story's readers, ranging from preschool to adult. They claim there is over 5 million stories created there. Every story I saw was available for free reading and viewing online.

    Stuart Stories has 9 free books for beginning readers and about 30 free books for older children.  All are available for free reading online and most are also available for free download in PDF.

    SunDogStories offers the adult oriented crime story, Lucky's Dream, for free online viewing.

    SunnaOnline  offers 16 free books on Islam.  All are available for online viewing and some for download in pdf.

    Surrendering Pages of Romance  offers the free novel, Surrendering,  which is the first of 3 novels in the Whispers of Desire series.  Look on the right hand side of the page for links to the novel.  Available for free reading online without registration.

    The Assayer good collection in a wide range of subjects, even though a number of the links are dead.  All the working links that I checked were for free online reading.

    The Birmingham Grid For Learning  presents The Tooth Fairy, a story written and illustrated by a 4th grade class for free reading online without registration.

    TheFreeLibrary  has a large collection of free classic books sorted by author and searchable by author, title or keyword.  There is also a small biography of every author along with the listing of that author's works on the site.  The site claims to have over 5 million works.  Online viewing only.

    The Lancashire Grid For Learning  has a nice collection of free ebooks for children of all ages.  Also available are activites related to the books.  All are available for free reading online without registration.  Click on an appropriate section on the left hand side menu to find the books.  This is a UK site with British spelling.

    The Literature for Children Collection a resource from the University of Florida (USA) featuring children books published from before 1850 to beyond 1950.  These are JPG scans visible in their viewer.  Warning that some of these books have racist language. No registration necessary.

    TheLiteraryGothic has a large listing of authors of Gothic works (pre 1950) and links to online ebooks for many of them.  Links are offsite, so download and viewing options vary.  I found many of their offsite links to be dead, but they host a large number of eTexts for online reading (marked by a a LitGothic etext in their listings).

    TheLiteraturePage  has a good size and interesting collection of free books.  These are classic works and are available for free reading online.

    TheManorSchool offers a collection of Greek myths and legends for online viewing.  Featured within the stories is the artwork of children of the school.

    TheMoonlitRoad  has 11 stories for children for online reading.  A mix of ghost stories, folktales, myths and legends from the American South.

    The Orange Grove provides free textbooks as part of the State of Florida's (USA) portal of free educational resources.  All the ones that I looked at were availalbe for free reading online and free download in PDF without registration.

    ThePomplemousse  has three original stories about the adventures of Pomplemousse, intended for children and adults.  All available for free reading online without registration.

    TheSeaLiesAfterDeath by Aubra Penner, is being released in parts, on 6 as of now, and the full 10 sections will eventually be available for free reading online.

    The Tom Maddox Writing Archive  has a free science fiction novel, screenplay and some short stories by Tom Maddox, available for free reading online without registration.

    The University of Southern Mississippi  presents The Cinderella Project, which is a compilation of a dozen variations of the classic fairy tale (press on the Archives link).  Also available are the Little Red Riding Hood Project and the Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer project.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    The Works and Life of Charles Dickens Charles Dickens online, a website dedicated to one of the most prolific and esteemed English writers, generally considered the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.  All available for free reading online without registration.  Suggested by Sea Mac.

    Thin Ghost has the full texts of all of M.R. James's ghost stories available for free reading online.

    ToddlerSchool  has a small collection of illustrated books to read and listen to online. Also has educational games for younger children.  Suggested by Sefi.

    Tom Coote  offers his travel ebooks for free download.  All are listed at Smashwords, so they come in a wide variety of formats with free download without registration and free reading online without registration.

    Topmarks  an UK learning site.  This link is to their English section, which has reading materials for children aged 5 to 18.  All are available for free reading online without registration.

    Travel Books Online has about 200 free classic travel books and guides for free reading online.

    TrinityMoon  a small collection of novels and short stories for online reading.

    uMassAmherstAesop'sFables offers a collection of Aesop's fables, with illustrations from students in the Computing in the Fine Arts course for online viewing.

    UPenn Digital Library  has a large collection of writings by woman authors and also has within its A Celebration of Women Writers collection a section for Newberry honor books written by women (Newberry is an award for children books given out by the Library Association) spanning from 1922 to 1964.

    Victorian Women Writers Project Indiana University host this collection of lesser known British women writers of the 1th century..  All the works are available for free reading online.

    VirtualReligionIndex has a very large collection of religious works for ancient religions as well as the modern major religions available for free viewing online.

    Von'sBooks  has free online science fiction written from a Christian prospective.  Most of these are incomplete, but there are several complete novels available for free reading online.  Main link is to the Scifi section, but there is also a Fantasy section.

    Waterloo Station The Sherlock Holmes Society of Austin, Texas, has a good number of the Holmes works available for free reading online.  Nice feature is that they have the stories listed in chronological order of the dates in the stories.

    Wattpad offers a huge collection of free works.  These are original and unpublished works.  There mostly are short stories, but a good number of novels and novellas.  Nicely divided into categories and sub-categories.

    Web-Books offers over a thousand classic works divided into several categories.  These are all available to read free online or for download in WEB and WEB database.  Viewing the downloads requires their Web Viewer (free) which is clean as far as I can tell

    WikiBooks has a large collection of free works in a good sized amount of categories available for free reading online.

    WikiJunior  age-appropriate non-fiction ebooks for children aged birth to 12 years old available for free reading online without registration.

    WikiSource  has a nice size collection of  novels from the late 19th century and early 20th century available for free reading online.  Some are also available as audio works.

    WikiTravel  an online travel guide in Wiki form available for free reading online without registration.

    Wikiversity   a “project devoted to learning resources, learning projects and research” for preschool through university level. Materials are available for a large number of disciplines.   All are available for free reading online without registration.

    WiredForBooks  has a nice collection of Beatrix Potter books as well as a few others for online reading and also available in audio.

    Wolfram Mathworld an excellent resource of math related information.  All available for free reading online without registration.

    Woodlands Junior School  presents a 7 chapter interactive Pokemon story to aid in developing reading skills and apprehension for free reading online without registration.   This is a UK site with British spelling.

    WordIQ Nice collection of over 10,000 books available for online viewing.    There are some unusual entries here, but hard to find unless looking for specific title or author.

    WorldofTales  a collection of folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world available for online viewing.

    Young Peoples Zone  a nice sized collection of classic literature for children available for free reading online without registration.

    Zain has a smaller collection of free ebooks regarding computer science and business topics available for free reading online.

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    Malware imageOne of the first lines of defense we have against the plague of security and privacy problems that stalk the internet resides within our browsers. This article is meant to help you to harden your browser against all types of problems. However, do note that I would strongly suggest that even if your main concern is only about privacy you should still read through the security sections as well. Preventing your computer from communicating with potentially dangerous sites, and helping to avoid malware, plays a very important role in increasing your online privacy. Thus, protecting your privacy really does require that you also increase your security. Also, note that for true protection you should also read my article about How to Stay Safe While Online. To achieve true privacy you should also read my article about How to Protect Your Online Privacy. The article you are currently reading is meant to be used in conjunction with both of these other articles. It is not really meant to be viewed in isolation, although it is certainly useful in that respect as well. [Doakio Editor's Note: This article was restored from Gizmo's Freeware archives as a service to the freeware community. Gizmo's Freeware provided high-quality, volunteer freeware reviews for decades. They shut down in July of 2021.] Notice that this article is not really as long as it seems. By this I mean that you really only need to navigate to the section applicable to the browser you are using. You really don't even need to worry about the other sections. Also, note that all instructions are provided assuming that no other changes to the configuration have been made. When configuring these browsers I installed them with default configurations and modified them from there. Also, unless otherwise noted, any instructions provided are applicable to all browsers within the below categories. Whenever specific browsers required different changes I noted that in my instructions.

    Changelog:

    11/23/2014-Replaced links to DoNotTrackMe to Blur as the name changed.

    11/24/2014-I replaced Blur with Ghostery for Chrome and Firefox as it was brought to my attention that the new version has very bad reviews.

    11/26/2014-Updated description for how to find the settings for Flash.

    Index

    1. General Changes To Browser 2. Use A Privacy Focused Search Engine 3. Modify Your Current Browser To Achieve Improved Security And Privacy     A) Instructions For Chromium Browsers     B) Instructions For Firefox (And Firefox Variants)     C) Instructions For Opera     D) Instructions For Internet Explorer 4. Alternatively Use JonDoFox To Greatly Improve Your Privacy 5. Periodically Clear Browsing Data

    1. General Changes To Browser

    If you are running Adobe Flash, as most people are, then there are a few changes to the settings you should make. Regardless of which browser you use you should modify your flash player settings to make sure that third-party flash cookies are disabled. If you are running Windows Vista or Windows 7 do this by going to the control panel on your computer. Then, if you have your Control Panel set to Category view, go to the subsection for “System and Security”. If you have the Control Panel set to Large Icons view, or Small Icons view, Flash should already be available. If you are running Windows XP you should go to the control panel and make sure that it is set to “Classic View”. At this point you should see the icon for “Flash Player”. Open it. Under the Storage tab make sure the option to “Block all sites from storing information on this computer” is selected. Also, under the Advanced tab make sure that the option to “Allow Adobe to install updates” is selected. In addition, it's important to know that Java is constantly being exploited in order to install malware on users computers. Also, the java plugin is not even needed for most sites to work properly. Thus, if the java plugin is in fact installed in your browser, my advice would be to remove it unless you find it necessary. In addition, assuming you uninstalled Java entirely from your computer, which I would recommend unless you are actively using it, you should also use the built-in Windows search to find the file “npDeployJava1.dll” on your C-drive and, if it exists, delete it. For some reason this file is not removed with the Java uninstaller. In addition, if there are any plugins you don't use I would recommend that you remove them as well. These may pose a threat to your security.

    2. Use A Privacy Focused Search Engine

    Google’s search engine records your searches and aggressively tracks you. So do many of the other top search engines. For this reason I would suggest that you use an alternative search engine. One of the best anonymous search engines I've found is called StartPage. This search engine allows you to search using Google's search engine, but it blocks Google's ability to track you. Its not quite as powerful as using Google alone, but it's definitely a very good search engine. More information can be found on this page, and an explanation of how to make it the default search engine of your browser can be found on this page. The same company that makes StartPage also makes a search engine called Ixquick. This gathers its results from many different sources and thus may be even more useful than StartPage. More information about it can be found on this page, and an explanation of how to make it the default search engine of your browser can be found on this page. Both search engines have been certified by an independent third-party to not record your IP address or use tracking cookies. Another very good option is called DuckDuckGo. This search engine will also not record any information about your searches. DuckDuckGo gathers its search results from a compilation of many sources. It also displays possible answers to the question you asked right at the top of the results page. It can be a very useful search engine. More information about DuckDuckGo can be found on this page, and a link to add it to your browser is provided on the main search page.

    3. Modify Your Current Browser To Achieve Improved Security And Privacy

    A) Instructions For Chromium Browsers

    All Chromium browsers use the Google Safe Browsing blacklist to protect users from known dangerous sites. The browsers I have reviewed are Google Chrome, Comodo Dragon, and SRWare Iron. All have built-in secure sandboxing, which make them especially difficult for outsiders to exploit, and are quickly patched against any known vulnerabilities. However, I have certain problems with Google Chrome.  Although it does have minor privacy concerns, which are discussed on this page and on this one, the major problem I have with it is that it is made by Google. Google is well known for having problems respecting the privacy of others. A good listing of relevant incidents can be found on this page. Because of this I find it very difficult to trust Google Chrome and thus will not recommend that anyone use their products. Luckily, Comodo Dragon and SRWare Iron do not have these privacy concerns. All of the code has been screened by the developers of these products to make sure that these privacy concerns have been removed. Also, Comodo Dragon comes with the option to enable Comodo Secure DNS, which will automatically stop you from connecting with most malicious sites. I would recommend enabling that, unless you are currently using another secure DNS server and do not want to switch. This will increase the security even higher than what you get by just using the Google Safe Browsing blacklist. For the below Extensions, I would recommend that you read through the descriptions of all of them and install all which you believe would be helpful. Unless the instructions specifically mention a problem it should be safe for you to install all of them. How to Increase Security If you are using Google Chrome you will want to go to the settings and, at the bottom of the page, select the option to “Show advanced settings”. Then select the option to “Check for server certificate revocation”. For SRWare Iron you should navigate to the same area and do the same. Then also select the option to “Enable phishing and malware protection”. No changes are required for Comodo Dragon. Use These Extensions Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • Web of Trust (WOT): With this installed if you happen upon a potentially dangerous site WOT covers the screen with a warning and waits for you to decide whether to stay or leave. If you combine this with your own good sense then you will be protected from many online dangers. Also, if you choose, you can ignore the WOT warning and go to the site anyway. Please note that for sites which are largely concerned with political or religious content the ratings may be less accurate. This is because community driven services such as WOT can become tainted by individual's own biases. However, in terms of malicious sites, phishing sites, scam sites, and similar content, I find this service to be very reliable and I would not go online without it.
    • BitDefender TrafficLight: With this installed if you happen upon a dangerous site, which is blacklisted by BitDefender, it will block the page from loading. These include malicious pages, phishing sites, and fraudulent sites.
    • Adblock Plus: After installing this it will load a page. Near the bottom you can select which additional lists you would want to use. Personally, I select all, but the choice is yours.
    Recommended Only For More Advanced Users
    • ScriptSafe: This add-on will block nearly all scripts, and other possibly dangerous content, from executing. This means that even if you stumble onto a dangerous site you cannot be attacked unless you manually add the scripts on that site to your whitelist. Thus you are protected from harmful scripts and many privacy threats. However, many sites use these scripts, and plugins, for legitimate purposes. Thus these sites will not work correctly unless you manually add the scripts on that site to your whitelist. This extension makes this relatively easy to do. Also, under the options you should select ‘Antisocial Mode’. Using ScriptSafe takes some getting used to, but if you are serious about staying safe online then this add-on is a must have.

    How to Increase Privacy

    All chromium browsers provide users with the option to start the browser in incognito mode. What this means is that if you are running in this mode most privacy traces will be cleared as soon as the browser is closed. This is not nearly enough to adequately protect your privacy, but it is a good start. In addition I would also advise that you change your default search engine to one which is discussed in section 2.

    How to change configuration for improved privacy

    Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users

    Go to Settings and click on the box at the bottom of the page that says “Show advanced settings”. Under the privacy section uncheck the box to “Use a prediction service to help complete searches…”. Note that this change is not required for Comodo Dragon or SRWare Iron. Also make sure the option to “Predict network actions to improve page load performance” is unchecked for all browsers. For all browsers you should also select the option to “Send a ‘Do not track' request with your browser traffic”. Google Chrome users will also want to deselect the option to “Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors”. Now open the ‘Content Settings’ and select the box to ‘Block third-party cookies from being set’. This will prevent sites from loading cookies that are not from the site that you are currently on. Thus almost all tracking cookies will be blocked with very minimal negative side effects on your browsing. The only time you may have problems, and need to temporarily disable this, is sometimes when a legitimate site redirects you to another page. That said, in most cases it will work fine. Recommended Only For More Advanced Users Under the Privacy section, in the main settings menu, check the box that says ‘Do not allow websites to know where you came from (suppress HTTP Referrer header)'. Note that this option is not available in Google Chrome and is not required for SRWare Iron. However, do note that this can cause problems with some websites and may need to be disabled in order for some sites to function properly. More advanced users may wish to just block cookies globally. Then, when it becomes necessary, they can manually add sites to the whitelist. However, this can be somewhat annoying since many sites will not work properly without cookies enabled. You can configure your browser to do this by going to the privacy content settings and selecting the option to not allow sites to set any data. Then you can allow cookies for individual sites through an icon near the URL bar. If blocking cookies globally is too annoying for your tastes then you can instead use the Vanilla extension, which is discussed below. This will allow you to easily decide which cookies to keep, and which to delete. Although it cannot prevent cookies from being placed on your computer, it does allow you to decide how long unwanted cookies should be kept. Also, advanced users may want to check the option to delete cookies and other site and plug-in data when the browser is closed. What this will do is that each time you close your browser it will clear all cookies, DOM Storage, and most other data. This means that nearly all information from your previous browsing session will be lost each time. Make sure when you've completed making whatever changes you would like to make to your configuration you select OK to save them. Use These Extensions Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • HTTPS Everywhere: This forces many sites, which have the option to encrypt your connection, to actually encrypt it. Therefore your connection with these sites will be much more secure. Although the version for Chromium browsers is technically still in beta I have noticed no problems with it.
    • LastPass: This is a secure password manager with automatic password and form filling. It not only helps protect your passwords, and sensitive data, but also allows you to confidently create strong passwords and change them often. This is very important at times like this where passwords are constantly being stolen from numerous sites.
    • Ghostery: This will help to stop third-parties, ad agencies, and search engines from tracking the webpages you visit. It is a good companion for Adblock Plus.
    Recommended Only For More Advanced Users
    • Vanilla: This is a very good cookie manager for Chromium browsers. However, if you decided to block all cookies globally, as mentioned above, then this extension is not needed. One major downside to this extension is that it can’t block cookies automatically. However, in the options you can select to ‘Auto delete unwanted cookies after 5 minutes”. You can also configure it to clear unwanted cookies on startup. If you decide to use it I would strongly suggest enabling both features. You also have the option to add sites to the whitelist so that those cookies will never be deleted.

    B) Instructions For Firefox (And Firefox Variants)

    Firefox, Comodo IceDragon, Pale Moon, and Waterfox (which is only for 64 bit systems) all use the Google Safe Browsing blacklist to protect users from known dangerous sites. All of these browsers are also being constantly updated to protect you from new vulnerabilities. If you are installing Comodo Ice Dragon I would suggest that you enable the Secure DNS servers, unless you are currently using another secure DNS server and do not want to switch. Comodo DNS servers will block certain dangerous sites which even Google Safe Browsing does not. Also, I would like to say that any of these browsers would be a good choice in terms of both security and privacy. I suppose that Comodo IceDragon may provide slightly higher security, since it has Comodo DNS Servers to also block known dangerous sites, but any of the browsers are really very good. For the below Add-ons, I would recommend that you read through the descriptions of all of them and install all which you believe would be helpful. Unless the instructions specifically mention a problem it should be safe for you to install all of them.

    How To Increase Security

    Use These Add-ons Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • Web of Trust (WOT): With this installed if you happen upon a potentially dangerous site WOT covers the screen with a warning and waits for you to decide whether to stay or leave. If you combine this with your own good sense then you will be protected from many online dangers. Also, if you choose, you can ignore the WOT warning and go to the site anyway. Please note that for sites which are largely concerned with political or religious content the ratings may be less accurate. This is because community driven services such as WOT can become tainted by individual's own biases. However, in terms of malicious sites, phishing sites, scam sites, and similar content, I find this service to be very reliable and I would not go online without it.
    • BitDefender TrafficLight: With this installed if you happen upon a dangerous site, which is blacklisted by BitDefender, it will block the page from loading. These include malicious pages, phishing sites, and fraudulent sites.
    • Adblock Plus: This allows you to subscribe to many different filter lists, which help block unwanted or malicious content. These can be found on this page. You can subscribe to any of the lists on that page, but be aware that subscribing to too many will slow down your browsing experience. I'd advise subscribing to the EasyPrivacy+EasyList combination and Malware Domains. Note that after doing this you should go into your subscriptions and delete the Easylist one, as it will be covered by the combination list and is redundant.  This can be found by going to the settings for ABP in the extensions window.
    Recommended Only For More Advanced Users
    • NoScript: This add-on will block nearly all scripts, and other possibly dangerous content, from executing. This means that even if you stumble upon a dangerous site you cannot be attacked unless you manually add the scripts on that site to your whitelist. Thus you are protected from harmful scripts and many privacy threats. However, many sites use these scripts, and plugins, for legitimate purposes. Thus these sites will not work correctly unless you manually add the scripts on that site to your whitelist. Using NoScript takes some getting used to, but if you are serious about staying safe online this add-on is a must have.

    How To Increase Your Privacy

    All of these browsers provide users with the option to start the browser in Private Browsing mode. What this means is that if you are running in this mode most privacy traces will be cleared as soon as the browser is closed. This is not nearly enough to adequately protect your privacy, but it is a good start. I would also advise that you change your default search engine to one which is discussed in section 2.

    How to change configuration for improved privacy

    Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users

    Go to the dropdown menu and click on options. Then go to the Privacy tab. Make sure that the option that reads “Tell websites I do not want to be tracked” is selected. Now, under “History” select “Use custom settings for history” from the dropdown menu. Make sure that the option to “Accept third-party cookies” is unchecked. This will prevent sites from loading cookies that are not from the site that you are currently on. Thus almost all tracking cookies will be blocked. The only time you may have problems and need to temporarily disable this is sometimes when a legitimate site redirects you to another page. That said, in most cases it will work fine. Recommended Only For More Advanced Users More advanced users may wish to prevent cookies from being set at all. To do this please use the Cookie Controller add-on, which is explained below. However, if blocking cookies globally, and whitelisting them manually, seems like too much of a hassle you can instead select the option to only keep the cookies until the browser is closed, which is an option from the dropdown menu under the history section of the privacy tab. Some users may also want to select the option to Clear history when the browser closes. To do this you can click on “Settings” and select the type of data you would like to have removed. I would advise removing the cookies, cache, and “Offline Website Data” as this will be able to remove most types of tracking data. That said, nearly all information will be lost each time you close your browser, but if you're willing to make the sacrifice it will certainly help improve your privacy. Once you're done making your changes to the settings you can click OK to save them. Use These Add-ons Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • HTTPS Everywhere: This forces many sites, which have the option to encrypt your connection, to actually encrypt it. Therefore your connection with these sites will be much more secure.
    • LastPass: This is a secure password manager with automatic password and form filling. It not only helps protect your passwords, and sensitive data, but also allows you to confidently create strong passwords and change them often. This is very important at times like this where passwords are constantly being stolen from numerous sites.
    • Ghostery: This will help to stop third-parties, ad agencies, and search engines from tracking the webpages you visit. It is a good companion for Adblock Plus.
    • Self-Destructing Cookies: This deletes the cookies related to a site as soon as you close it's tab. Thus, it should increase privacy without reducing usability.
    • BetterPrivacy: This will automatically prompt you to delete all local shared objects (LSO's) from your computer each time Firefox closes. For more information on why these are such a privacy risk please read this article.
    Recommended Only For More Advanced Users
    • RequestPolicy: This will block cross-site requests by default. Thus you will be protected from Cross-site request forgery, which otherwise could send information about your browsing habits to unknown parties. When installing this I would advise that you leave the settings at default. Also, I would advise that you do not whitelist any sites unless you are experiencing difficulties.
    • Cookie Monster: This add-on extends your privacy protection by blocking all cookies by default. It allows you to quickly and easily allow or block cookies globally and then manually add exceptions for individual sites. Like NoScript this takes some getting used to since many sites will not work correctly without cookies enabled. However, if protecting your privacy is important then this is a must have. Note that if you use this you shouldn't need to also use Self-Destructing Cookies.
    • Secret Agent: This add-on will impede most of the fingerprinting-based tracking that is used to track users. After installed it will continually randomize your browser profile. Thus it is not possible to fingerprint your actual browser. However, sometimes this will cause sites to not work correctly. In those cases you may need to disable it for those sites.

    C) Instructions For Opera

    Opera can be downloaded from this page. In general I do like this browser. It is very configurable and also has a lot of very useful extensions which can be added. For the below Extensions, I would recommend that you read through the descriptions of all of them and install all which you believe would be helpful. Unless the instructions specifically mention a problem it should be safe for you to install all of them.

    How To Increase Security

    How to change configuration of Opera for improved security Recommended Only For More Advanced Users Go to the Content section. If you are an advanced user you may want to deselect the option to “Enable JavaScript”. This will protect you from any JavaScript based malware or privacy threats, but it will also mean that many websites will not work until you manually allow them. Under the content section advanced users can check the box to “Enable plug-ins only on demand”. This will mean that flash and java can only run on a page if you allow it, thus providing you with protection from many security and privacy threats. Exceptions for both of these can easily be made for sites by right-clicking on any site and selecting “Edit Site Preferences”. Then go to the content tab and manually uncheck the relevant box, and select OK, to add the site to your exceptions. Use These Extensions Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • Web of Trust (WOT): With this installed if you happen upon a potentially dangerous site WOT covers the screen with a warning and waits for you to decide whether to stay or leave. If you combine this with your own good sense then you will be protected from many online dangers. Also, if you choose, you can ignore the WOT warning and go to the site anyway. Please note that for sites which are largely concerned with political or religious content the ratings may be less accurate. This is because community driven services such as WOT can become tainted by individual's own biases. However, in terms of malicious sites, phishing sites, scam sites, and similar content, I find this service to be very reliable and I would not go online without it.
    • Adblock Plus: This allows you to subscribe to many different filter lists, which help block unwanted or malicious content. These can be found on this page. You can subscribe to any of the lists on that page, but be aware that subscribing to too many will slow down your browsing experience. I'd advise subscribing to the EasyPrivacy+EasyList combination and Malware Domains. Note that after doing this you should go into your subscriptions and delete the Easylist one, as it will be covered by the combination list and is redundant.  This can be found by going to the settings for ABP in the extensions window.

    How to Increase Privacy

    Like most browsers Opera provides users with the option to start the browser in Private browsing mode. What this means is that if you are running in this mode most privacy traces will be cleared as soon as the browser is closed. This is not nearly enough to adequately protect your privacy, but it is a good start. I would also advise that you change your default search engine to one which is discussed in section 2. How to change configuration of Opera for improved privacy Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users Under the settings part of the drop-down menu go to Preferences. Then go to the advanced tab. Under the Cookies section most users will want to select the option to “Accept cookies only from the site I visit”. This will prevent sites from loading cookies that are not from the site that you are currently on. Thus almost all tracking cookies will be blocked. The only time you may have problems, and need to temporarily disable this, is sometimes when a legitimate site redirects you to another page. That said, in most cases it will work fine. Also, under the security section select the option to “Ask websites not to track me”. Recommended Only For More Advanced Users Under the Cookies section more advanced users can select the option to “Never Accept Cookies”. This will block any cookies from being set, which will stop some websites from working. For these cases you will need to manually add cookies to the whitelist. It greatly affects your browsing experience as this is not easy to do with Opera. An alternative to this is to check the box labeled “Delete new cookies when exiting Opera”. This will mean that sites do not continue to remember your information, but it will still allow the sites to operate correctly. Also, as before right-clicking on the site, and going to “Edit Site Preferences” allows you to remember cookies from that particular site. Also, under the network tab, users can deselect the option to “Send referrer information”. It may also be helpful to disable “Enable geolocation”. However, do note that this can cause problems with some websites and may need to be re-enabled. Also, advanced users may want to go to the History section and turn off the cache for the disk, although this will mean that each time you visit a page it will have to reload from scratch. Thus this will slow down your browsing experience, but it will make it much more difficult for sites to track you. When you are done making your changes select OK to save them. Use These Extensions Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • LastPass: This is a secure password manager with automatic password and form filling. It not only helps protect your passwords, and sensitive data, but also allows you to confidently create strong passwords and change them often. This is very important at times like this where passwords are constantly being stolen from numerous sites.
    • Disconnect: This will help to stop third-parties, ad agencies, and search engines from tracking the webpages you visit.

    D) Instructions For Internet Explorer

    Note that with Internet Explorer you need to enable add-ons after installing them. This will appear as a popup at the bottom of the screen. For the below extensions, I would recommend that you read through the descriptions of all of them and install all which you believe would be helpful. Unless the instructions specifically mention a problem it should be safe for you to install all of them.

    How to Increase Security

    Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users Open the “Internet Options” and go to the Advanced tab. Then scroll down to the security section and select the option to “Enable SmartScreen Filter”. This will check all sites, and downloads, against lists of known dangerous sites and files. Although this has certain privacy concerns I believe that the additional security it provides outweighs the privacy risks. That said, the choice is yours as to whether you want to enable it or not, but I would strongly recommend it.
    • Adblock Plus: This will block most ads, and tracking bugs.
    Recommended Only For More Advanced Users To disable flash globally go to tools, then safety, and click on “ActiveX filtering”. After doing this flash, and all other ActiveX type content, will be blocked until you click the icon to enable it. This icon can be found on the address bar. You can then choose whether to turn ActiveX off or leave it on. This is a relatively good way to protect yourself from many threats, although I would prefer individual site whitelisting. Use these add-ons Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • Web of Trust (WOT): With this installed if you happen upon a potentially dangerous site WOT covers the screen with a warning and waits for you to decide whether to stay or leave. If you combine this with your own good sense then you will be protected from many online dangers. Also, if you choose, you can ignore the WOT warning and go to the site anyway. Please note that for sites which are largely concerned with political or religious content the ratings may be less accurate. This is because community driven services such as WOT can become tainted by individual's own biases. However, in terms of malicious sites, phishing sites, scam sites, and similar content, I find this service to be very reliable and I would not go online without it.

    How To Increase Privacy

    Internet Explorer provides users with the option to start the browser in InPrivate Browsing mode. What this means is that if you are running in this mode most privacy traces will be cleared as soon as the browser is closed. This is not nearly enough to adequately protect your privacy, but it is a good start. I would also advise that you change your default search engine to one which is discussed in section 2. How to change configuration of Internet Explorer for improved privacy Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users Open the “Internet Options”. Under the Privacy tab most users can select the option to “Never allow websites to request your physical location”. If needed you can manually add exclusions for particular sites, but this is almost never necessary. Also, most users will want to change the privacy settings to “Medium High”. Recommended Only For More Advanced Users Open the “Internet Options”. Under the General tab advanced users may want to select the option to “Delete browsing history on exit”. This means that nearly all information will be lost each time you close your browser, but if you're willing to make the sacrifice it will help improve your privacy. Under the privacy tab advanced users can click on the option for Advanced. Then select the option to “Override automatic cookie handling”. Then uncheck the option to “Always allow session cookies”. I would then advise that you select the option to Prompt for “First-part Cookies” and Block for “Third-party Cookies”. Then select OK. When going to a site you will be prompted whether you want to accept the cookies or not. When making a decision I would suggest you select the option to “Apply my decision to all cookies from this website”. However, this can be very annoying and you essentially have to do this for every site. Another alternative is to select Block for “First-party cookies” as well. However, this can be somewhat annoying since many sites will not work properly without cookies enabled. You then need to go back into the settings to manually add a site to the whitelist. Managing the cookies in such a way does greatly increase your level of privacy, but that comes at a great price in terms of usability. Advanced users may want to go to the Advanced tab and disable the option to “Enable DOM Storage”. This is located under the Security section. For an explanation of what that is please see this site. Use these add-ons Recommended For Both Beginner and Advanced Users
    • LastPass: This is a secure password manager with automatic password and form filling. It not only helps protect your passwords, and sensitive data, but also allows you to confidently create strong passwords and change them often. This is very important at times like this where passwords are constantly being stolen from numerous sites.
    • Blur: This used to be called DoNotTrackMe. It will help to stop third-parties, ad agencies, and search engines from tracking the webpages you visit. More information is given in this review. Note that this may cause issues on Facebook and need to be disabled for all aspects of that site to work correctly. Other than that most sites should work fine with no changes to the configuration.

    4. Alternatively Use JonDoFox To Greatly Improve Your Privacy

    Note that for this browser I am not even considering security or usability concerns. This browser is truly oriented mainly towards privacy. For a more balanced approach please see my advice above. In addition to using this browser I would also advise that you change your default search engine to one which is discussed in section 2. To surf the web with even greater anonymity than can be achieved with any of the above browsers, download JonDoFox from this page and install it. During installation it will prompt you to have it download Firefox. Assuming you don't already have Firefox installed let it install it for you. However, if you already have Firefox installed it will ask you whether you want to merge it with your Firefox configuration. You must either do that or install it as a portable browser. The choice is yours. During the installation it will ask you if you want to download JonDo, which is a proxy program. I would recommend that you do not and instead use a virtual private network (VPN). This will provide you with an encrypted connection, much faster browsing speed, and an even higher level of privacy. To choose the best VPN for your needs please read this section of my article about How to Protect Your Privacy While Online. Make sure that if you do choose to use a VPN, you start it up each time before using JonDoFox to browse the internet. Also, if you do decide to use a VPN you should start up JonDoFox, left-click on the JonDoFox icon, and select the option for “No Proxy”. When prompted you should also select the option to not show warnings about the proxy. At this point JonDoFox is ready for you to begin browsing the internet with a very high level of privacy. No further changes are required for the configuration and no additional add-ons are required.

    5. Periodically Clear Browsing Data

    Even if the configuration changes suggested above some browsing data will still get saved to your computer. In addition you should be aware that the advice I give above will not prevent flash cookies from being stored on your computer from the site you are visiting. You have only disabled this for third-parties. Thus, to clear these flash cookies, and most other browsing data which may be on your computer, you may want to periodically clean your computer with a program called CCleaner. To download it you should download the Portable version from this page to avoid inadvertantly installing unwanted software. After installing it there is one change you must make in order for it to clear flash cookies, as well as normal cookies and other browsing data. Please click on the Cleaner icon and go to the Applications tab. Then, under the Multimedia section, make sure that “Adobe Flash Player” is selected. Once you have made sure that CCleaner is configured properly you just make sure that all other programs are closed and then click on the button to “Run CCleaner”. Running this periodically will help to increase your online privacy.  I realize that the configuration options, and available add-ons/extensions, for these browsers change over time. Thus I need your help in staying up to date with the best ways to protect all of these browsers from both safety and privacy concerns. Please help me by letting me know when you believe the advice I am providing is no longer entirely accurate, or that new approaches are now available.
    In addition, please help by rating this article. If you believe this article deserves anything less than 5 stars, please leave a comment below explaining how you think it can be improved or where you find fault. This article is written by me but fueled by the community. Thus your opinions and advice are not only much appreciated, but actually necessary in order for this article to grow and improve.

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