I got to thinking today ... I wonder if there's an online service like Netflix but for books. I did a quick search and found BooksFree.com. Has anyone used it or heard about it? I'm tempted to try it out. But I wanted to get some more info on them before I actually signed up.

Does anyone know of any other services like this? Using a service like this might be cheaper than buying the books. And they usually just sit around after I get done reading them (or else my sister reads 'em).

If you have realplayer installed, you can go to http://www.booksfree.com/mp3/ and click the "As Featured In/On: Fox 5" symbol and get a small report about them

Gweep has some great places to get free books but they are usally a limited selection . I had a thread dedicated to just free books but not sure where it went too

Here is one if you like sci fi - http://www.baen.com/library/defaultTitles.htm
and another if you like old books
http://www.blackmask.com/
and finally free audiobooks
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp

If you want to make your own audio books, i suggest you check out http://www.nextup.com/TextAloud/index.html
as I use it from time to time with the Kate and Paul Neospeech voices from time to time that I bought with Ultrahal and really like how realistic the voices can get

These clubs tend to have a limited selection and/or you have to wait a long time for new release books.

Yeah, it's called a library.

Try this Books