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Explore 25 amazing websites where you can download free eBooks in various formats. From fiction to non-fiction, tech to arts, discover a vast collection of books on these websites. Learn about their unique features and how to access them.
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ebook lobby dot com has a humble collection with ebooks categorized into different types such as art, fashion, graphic design, photography, finance, biographies, computers, entertainment and many others. They also have a section that shows Top 10 ebooks categorized into various sections.
Visit: http://www.ebooklobby.com/
This website claims to have 275 thousand + books available to download. They have a pretty good collection of books, except that they aren't categorized for easy identification.
Visit: https://bookspics.com/
This is a pretty minimalistic website with a neat collection of classic books such as the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Jungle Book, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, etc, all available in PDF format ready to download.
Visit: http://www.planetpublish.com/
Librivox is a website that offers a free collection of Public Domain Audiobooks. This will be loved by people who don't have time to "read" books but can find time to listen to books through audiobooks. Simply click on their 'catalog' and find hundreds of audio books, ready to be downloaded, which can also be filtered either by Author, Title, Genre, or Language. A little word of caution here: although these audio books are claimed to be in the Public domain, they are so in U.S.A. please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.
Visit: http://librivox.org/
you. For e.g. 'Web development' brings up these results. Let's say we go ahead and choose the latest version of "Front-end Developer Handbook 2018" - as you can see these are updated just few days ago! Let me show you a demo of how and what this book covers.
Go: http://gitbook.com/
An online repository of books maintained by a digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, this is a plain vanilla HTML site but has a great collection of books and is quite organized when we consider the fact that it's just maintained by 1 or 2 people! Just go ahead and navigate through the hyperlinks given on their homepage to browse through the site by titles, subjects, listings and more.
Visit: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
Open library is just what it says - an open library, that hosts a huge list of ebooks waiting to be read. It has all the classics, and some contemporary books. You can use its search fields to search for books or authors. When ready to read, it has a great book design format that opens right on the screen where we can start reading right away.
Go: https://openlibrary.org/
Next in our list is a little different one. Google Play books. This has the option of either reading on our Android phones or directly on the web browser. I have provided a link to it in the show notes that takes you directly to the Top Free section where you can download hundreds and thousands of ebooks that are mostly short and crisp in their subjects.
Visit: https://play.google.com/store/books/collection/topselling_free
As the top destination for the latest research and publications, TradePub.com publishes curated resources on behalf of the world's largest and most influential companies. The TradePub.com research library is #1 resource for professionals to access free research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks. Professionals are eligible to sign up for a free TradePub.com Membership to enjoy unlimited access to the TradePub.com resource library
including On-the-go access to all materials regardless of device or browser with an unlimited access to the complete TradePub library.
Go: https://knowfree.tradepub.com/
Now, this is not a famous website... wait, I am just kidding here. Amazon, as you might not expect, has tons of FREE ebooks to be downloaded. It has a great list of books organized as per categories when you use this special link available in the show notes below. Want to read free romance novels, or mystery, thriller and suspense, or just a classic book or a science fiction, it's all in here. Just go ahead and get your Kindle apps, if you don't have a Kindle device or simply read them on your web browser by going to read.amazon.com.
Go: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=
The caption itself promises to provide 1000s of public domain books at the outset. With categories ranging from short stories, fantasy, romance, to the harvard classics shelf of fiction - there are two broad shelves where all these books are kept in - fiction and non-fiction. Ranging from Dante's Divine comedy, the adventures of Sherlock holmes, Treasure island, Around the world in 80 days, and much more, you can find them all in here.
Visit: http://www.feedbooks.com/publicdomain
This is not an ebook download site per se but it has a curated list of information about books that are in the public domain. Now people who are into re-publishing public domain books with either an annotation, or illustration, or translation into Amazon's KDP will find this TREASURE a HUGE help. This has books categorized into various shelves with some even tagged as 'before 1923', as you can see here on the screen.
Go: https://www.goodreads.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_type=lists&q=public+domain
We all might have heard about Wikipedia, but there is another similar source for getting free books to read and that's Wikisource. Captioned as 'a free library that anyone can improve', it's another free source for people who are looking to publish public domain books into KDP as almost all the books given here are cited with their publishing year, and many can be found that are published in the 19th century.
Go: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Books
Baen Books is now making available a number of its titles in electronic format, for FREE. They're calling it the Baen Free Library. Anyone who wishes can read these titles online — no conditions, no strings attached. Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. (URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed. )
Visit: http://www.baen.com/catalog/category/view/s/free-library/id/
Bonus tips and websites
Now here's a bonus: This page from getFreeEbooks has a compilation of many topic-wise ebooks for any kind of reader.
https://www.getfreeebooks.com/category/top-compilations/
There are more websites that were worth a mention, but for which I wasn't sure of the copyrights involved. Go ahead and check all of the websites given below.
http://www.freebookcentre.net http://www.freebookspot.com/Catalogue.aspx http://ebook3000.info/Default https://www.bookgoldmine.com/ https://bygosh.com/
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