Here's a fantastic standing offer for those of you who love to read and also enjoy using the newest technology! The Border's eReader software gives you access to over a million free eBooks!

That's over 1,000,000 free books – on an app that is, itself, FREE!

That's right, the eReader software is available for your Mac or PC if you like reading on your computer or laptop, or for your iPhone/iPod Touch, your iPad, your Blackberry or Android phone if you like reading books on your smartphone or touchscreen gadget.

Some of the free books are recent titles – it's not unusual for a publisher to offer a title for free as a means of enticing you to sample an author's work. It’s most common with authors who have a large series of novels on the market. Harry Turtledove, Laurel K. Hamilton, Michal Crighton… I've seen all these authors and more with free teaser books available for download. Sometimes it’ll be a new author, showcasing their work for free for a limited time to generate word of mouth publicity.

More often than not, though, these are books from the public domain. That means the book has been on the market long enough that the copyright has lapsed, and now publishers can distribute the book free of charge. Some examples would be Dickens, Poe, Mary Shelley, Byron, Jules Verne… basically any and every book you can think of in the "classics" category is one that you can find for free download. So charge up your phone or boot up your laptop, grab an iced tea and start reading that Mark Twain classic you’ve always wanted to read – the book and the software are free for the downloading, thanks to Border's!