- October 10, 2023
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We recommend the excellent
Project Gutenberg, which has over 60,000 free e-books that have expired copyright in the United States. You'll find writers like Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde. Charlotte Bronte, Lewis Carroll, Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, etc. What we love about Project Gutenberg is the high-quality ebooks they offer-truly the best free books out there.
Also highly recommended is the
Science hub Mutual Aid community, which brings together all literature lovers based on the concept of mutual aid. If you have any books that cannot be found in libgen and public libraries, you can post a help post here. The people here have a huge resource base and I believe you will get what you need.
Other great free e-book sites include:
ManyBooks – This site has over 50,000 books, including out-of-copyright and self-published works.
BookBoon – an exhaustive collection of over 50 million ebooks and pdfs. It focuses on textbooks.
Free-Ebooks.net – focuses primarily on self-published books, with a large selection of romance novels and science fiction among other genres. There is also an extensive non-fiction section, which contains a number of wonderful textbooks and manuals.
Archive.org – A vast collection of esoteric books, scholarly texts and manuals.
Google Books: Google's ambitious platform lets you search an extensive database of books and papers, currently totaling 40 million titles. It also offers several full-text books for download, sample pages, and search-only titles. For these latter works, Google Books only provides snippets of the book's content.
Z-Library: Described as the world's largest e-book library, this site operates similarly to Library Genesis, offering over 5 million books in a variety of formats. You can expect a range of classics in fiction and non-fiction, as well as contemporary books and important research articles.
SCI-HUB: Created by a computer programmer in 2011, this database aligns with the open access movement and provides access to important research. It is primarily used for research articles, allowing free access to expensive academic journal content.
Bookfi.net: This is another great option for research and academic content, mostly saved and available in fb2 format. Fb2 is an XML-based e-book format that is compressed and searchable.