Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Free! eBooks

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If you love to read ebooks, but your wallet is thin, try these sites for free ebooks.

  • Amazon Kindle Store
    Free Popular Classics page.
  • Amazon Kindle Store
    Top 100 Free Best Sellers.
  • Baen Books
    Baen Books, founded by SFF editor Jim Baen, is a hub for SFF readers complete with plenty of Baen's own ebooks in its Free Library.
  • Barnes & Noble Online
    The Barnes & Noble digital shop is stocked with plenty of free and discount books and free magazines. Some free titles can only be read on a B&N NOOK ereader. Their Reading App is free.
  • Book Cave
    Book Cave enables readers to search nearly 2,000 free books with advanced filters such as genre, maturity level or sensitive content.
  • BookBoon
    BookBoon provides free e-textbooks on subjects ranging from chemistry to communications.
  • BookRix - old site
    Self-publishing platform BookRix hosts thousands of freebies in its online library, most of which are original stories from brand-new authors.
  • Ebooks.com
    Ebooks.com has large collection of free books, with a focus on the classics. Its online e-reader works well, but if you download their ebooks you must install Adobe Digital Editions.
  • Feedbooks
    Feedbooks hosts ebooks to purchase, but also has free public domain ebooks and free original books.
  • Free eBooks!
    Discover 1000's of New Authors in Hundreds of Categories. Fiction and Non-Fiction --- Free Every Month!
  • Google Play Bookstore
    Google Play has a page of freebies, largely test prep and self-help books.
  • The Internet Archive
    The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
  • Kobo Bookstore
    Kobo has a huge digital store and its own brand of e-readers.
  • ManyBooks
    50,000+ Free eBooks in the Genres you Love
  • Open Library
    Open Library is an initiative of the Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Open Library contains information about books. Internet Archive hosts a collection of digitized books. Open Library’s universal catalog provides links to discover, borrow, and read from the Internet Archive’s collections. Your Internet Archive account can be used to sign-in to Open Library.
  • OverDrive
    OverDrive allows anyone with a library card to pull ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. There can be long waiting lists for popular book, but borrowing books on OverDrive is better than buying hard copy you'll only read once. OverDrive offers a mobile app called Libby.
  • Planet Ebook
    Because it’s based in Australia, Planet Ebook pulls from a wider public domain than in the US.
  • Project Gutenberg
    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 70,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world’s great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
  • Reedsy Discovery
    Reviewers on Reedsy Discovery receive a free ebook copy of every title you pick up for review.
  • Smashwords
    The Smashwords store hosts 86,000+ of those books are available for free books by authors who publish on the site
  • Standard Ebooks
    Standard Ebooks provides beautiful-formatted editions of ebooks found in Project Gutenberg.
  • Your local library! Your local library eBook list may include everything from websites that are free to the general public to resources available only to local library cardholders.
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