Obtaining free e-books is possible as long as you know where to look and there are so many that you will need to live many lives to be able to read them. They are a perfect complement to official stores such as Amazon Kindle eBooks where you can find almost any title you are looking for and at a very good price.
But if we talk about total free there are legal portals that have a bit of everything and some alternative books that go outside the commercial circle. If you want to enjoy the pleasure of reading on your reader (mobile or tablet), have at hand the ones that have been selected in makeuseof.
10 sites to download free ebooks
Overdrive
Without a doubt, one of the best digital libraries where you can get material for free and not only those that are in the public domain, but also recently released main titles. However, there is a problem: you will need a valid and active public library card or be a student to have access. Overdrive works with more than 30,000 public libraries in more than 40 different countries around the world. In addition to ebooks, you can also listen to audiobooks for free.
LibraryGenesis
It is a search engine for free reading material, including e-books, articles, magazines, comics, and more. Currently, it indexes nearly three million electronic books and 60 million articles. You would not have life to consume all that is offered here. It covers both fiction and non-fiction and different genres and types. The user interface is nothing short of terrible and its legality has been called into question as it has allegedly linked to pirated copies. But the website remains active and indexes an overwhelming amount of material.
Project Gutenberg
Another of the best is attractive from the very name of a project supported by volunteers and fundraisers as a portion of their proceeds go to the charitable effort. TAims to collect and provide as many free, high-quality e-books as possible. Most of its library consists of public domain titles, but it also has other things if you browse the site by category, popularity, or latest additions. They are available for download in EPUB and MOBI format and can be read online in HTML format.
ManyBooks
A nifty little site that’s been around for over a decade. Much of his collection was seeded by Project Gutenberg in the mid-2000s. Since then, however, he has taken on an identity of his own with the addition of thousands of self-published works available free of charge. This way it provides a library of free and discounted fiction e-books for people to download and enjoy. Downloads are available in dozens of formats, including EPUB, MOBI, and PDF, and have a built-in rating system.
OpenLibrary
Open Library offers a directory that makes it easy to find all the free e-books that are available in the great digital library The Internet Archive. The number of available titles already reaches a colossal figure: 1.5 million articles. The site is open source and anyone can edit the information available for each book and has scrollable categories to improve searches.
feedbooks
Another good collection of downloadable fiction and non-fiction ebooks. It offers many copyrighted, paid titles, but also some free ones that you can find in the public domain category. Most are available in EPUB, MOBI and PDF formats. They even come with word counts and reading time estimates, if you want to know. There are also some free original books, unordered, but you can find them in the different categories.
PDFBooksWorld
EPUB and MOBI are specialized media specifically designed for e-book reading, but PDF is also used, and for good reason: universal support for all platforms and devices. If you use it this is your site. While the collection is “small” compared to the previous ones, with only a few thousand titles, they are all free and guaranteed to be optimized for PDF. And they can be read online which makes them ideal for citations or academic projects.
Free-Ebooks.net
Another site where you can find thousands of free e-books included in six different categories. Keep in mind that to be able to download for free you will have to register. The account is free, but you can only download up to five free titles each month. Although there is a bit of everything in the sites in this article, most are in English. The great thing about this site is that they are available in dozens of other languages.
International Children’s Digital Library
If you have been able, together with their teachers, to instill in your little ones the pleasure of reading, this is the site to check out. Books are available in a variety of lengths and reading difficulty levels. You can even search for criteria that can stimulate them. Each book appears in a specific category to facilitate the search. It seems small, but there are great titles available and also in a variety of languages, although, like the rest, with the majority in English.
Centsless Books
A very different site from the previous ones since it is an aggregator of free Kindle books that are available on Amazon. Its goal is just that, to make it easy to stay on top of all the free e-books available from the e-commerce giant. Please note that some of the e-books listed are only free for users who subscribe to the Kindle Unlimited service.
