Free! ebooks

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life." W. Somerset Maugham

Mr. Breeze and His Favorite Book

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

• Amazon Kindle Store
  Free Popular Classics page.
• 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.
• BookRix
  Free eBooks - Download for iPad, tablets, eReaders and smartphones. ed. comment: Site is not secure. Advanced users may go around the message.
• Ebooks.com
  400 of their most popular classics to read, free of charge.
• Free eBooks!
  Completely free - no catches, no trials, no credit card required.
• Google Play Bookstore
  Google Play has a page of freebies.
• 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
  Free ebooks, audiobooks & magazines from your library. 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 an online library of over 70,000 free eBooks in many formats including .pdf. Download them or read them online. Much of the world’s great public domain literature is available.
• Reedsy Discovery
  Reviewers on Reedsy Discovery receive a free ebook copy of every title they pick up for review.
• 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.
  You can, of course, borrow hardcopy. In many towns this includes recent and current New York Times bestsellers.
• Want hardcopy not available at your local library? Use ILL (InterLibrary Loan) to borrow books from other libraries.
  Interlibrary Loan & Document Services For NYPL Cardholders (New York). This sort of service is available around the globe.

Do you have a few dollars but not enough to cover your reading? Try Kindle Unlimited. Presently (November 2025) it costs $11.99 per month, less than the cost of a new hardcover.

• For the Amazon Kindle: Amazon Kindle Store
  Top 100 Free Best Sellers.
• Amazon Kindle Store
  Do you already have Amazon Prime? Prime Reading comes with your subscription. The offerings change constantly but there are usually around 3,000 free titles available.

Paid sites

• BookBoon
  BookBoon provides free e-textbooks on subjects ranging from chemistry to communications.
• Smashwords
  The Smashwords store hosts 86,000+ of books, which are available free for authors who publish on the site.

☠️☠️ Here there be dragons! For advanced users only. ☠️☠️

• Library Genesis
  Shadow library, Advanced users only. May need to use a VPN.
• Sci-hub
  Shadow library for technical journal articles. Choose a mirror. Advanced users only.
• The Pirate Bay (google for a mirror)
  Important: Use a VPN. Media search engine for hyper-advanced users only. Absolutely need to use a VPN. Have your antivirus browser extension ON and be really careful to ONLY click exactly on text boxes links.