11,000 Free eBooks

I've been doing a little research, perhaps more of which another day, and as part of it I found and read Frederick Taylor's The Principles of Scientific Management, published in 1911.

You may know Taylor as one of the fathers of Time and Motion study or by other epithets, some of them less than generous. What's interesting is that the perception I had of him and the whole of what became Taylorism was completely overturned by reading his book. I'll write more on this in a later posting.

For the moment I'd encourage anyone who hasn't read it, particularly those who have read other accounts of Taylor's ideas, to read it. Taylor describes how he fears his ideas will be misinterpreted, and it seems to be that commentators on his work have almost universally done so.

Anyway this leads to the point of this post. In searching for his book I was able to find a totally free eBook copy. What is more it is part of a collection of over 11,000 books.

I suspect that these are free as they are out of copyright but in amongst them you may find some real treasures such as The Prince by Machiavelli. Most are English language but I came across several works in French including books by Dumas and Verne.

Follow the link to find out about the collection,

http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/free?a_aid=hotukdeals

The link at the foot of the page will then let you search through them.