eBook Basics: Free eBooks

A list of sites with free ebooks. Some are duplicated below.

Many research libraries are contributing scanned images of works outside of copyright. Read online or download in various formats for various e-book readers. Download options include PDF, EPUB, Kindle, DAISY (ANSI/NISO Z39.86 open format), and others.

Another source of ebooks in the public domain. Individual titles are available for download for reading online, or as PDF, EPUB, Kindle, and more.

Focused on providing access to open access academic books. DOAB complements the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).

Access to more than a million freely available (legitimately free), full-text works in European languages.

Books, manuscripts, periodicals, images, scores, etc. spanning a wide array of disciplines from Bibliotechque Nationale de France with materials reaching back into the 17th Century. Materials can be downloaded as PDF, JPEG (individual pages) and TXT.

Free books online from public domain to read on the modern devices including PC, Laptop, Kindle, Tablet, iPad and Mobile phone.