Numero Uno:

1. www.scribd.com  ( Huge Justice to Sanskrit, Hindi and Other Indian Langauges ) . Most User friendly and Comprehensive Book Sharing Site.

( One Minor caveat. trying to download a book, If you dont have a login account with huge amounts of uploads, Scribd will irk you for either membership fees or uploads in exchange. In that case just dump any random eText you have from a Washing Machine Manual to T V Tuner Guide and you can bypass.

2. Google Books ( http://books.google.com )

If you are not in USA ( and some other Countries )  this might not work. Strangely you will be shown the book with no way to either view it or download it.

http://bypassy.com/ to your Rescue. This will give you the View as any Viewer in US will  get and you will be able to download the Rare and out of Copyright Books.

Browse through bypassy and you will be able to see it as US Viewer will.

https://www.torproject.org is also helpful. Use there Tor Browser.

http://www.gbooksdownloader.com/ will help downloading the books without a browser.

3. www.4shared.com

( Caveat : if you dont have a paid account they will force you to wait for a few seconds. Workaround is to have a free account and use the Transfer to My Account Link and the book will be in your free account and you can now download it from anywhere where ever you can log in from

4. www.libgen.info (Mostly for English books but almost has 80% of the books I searched for. every major writer is there)

The Most Samaritan of all and most books and authors are there but not so great for Indology but Reserach in general.

5. archive.org. Very Useful for Sanskrit only books.

6. avaxsearch.com ( some irritations like useless links, popups and may be even viruses and generally less success rate.

7. DLI (http://www.dli.ernet.in/). I hate DLI. A very Historic Opportunity to assmble and catalog the Heritage of India – yet again was wasted thanks for giving business to the same ppl who were responsible for the CommonWealth Games , 2G and the Coal Mines Scandal. Is a living Testimonial to the advances of Literacy and Common Sense among the masses back home.

However, exemptable from the diatribe above is the Feedback Team who are – suprisingly prompt in restoring broken Links.

The following DLI Viewer is a nifty handy tool for viewing the books and downloading them – which the pre-80s UI of the DLI Website makes a massive pain.