Free ebook book sites

Updated: 2023-09-27

These should not require a sign in or account in order to get the books. *** = my favorites. #free #freeepub #freebooks

1. 200 free sci-fi books. https://www.reddit.com/r/FreeEBOOKS/comments/9tvcyj/here_is_a_list_of_200_free_scifi_ebooks_ive/
2. Amazon Free Classics. https://www.amazon.com/b?node=2245146011
3. Archive.org. Lots of old and eccentric books here. http://archive.org.
4. ***Baen free library. Smaller collection but very good quality sci fi and fantasy books by professional authors. https://www.baen.com/allbooks/category/index/id/2012
5. Google Books. Many of these are just scanned images put into a PDF. But they do have some very old books. https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Archive.html?id=hSJDywEACAAJ
6. Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/
7. Kobo free ebooks. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/free-ebooks
8. Leanpub. There will be some free ebooks here. Mostly technical and computer books. This is also a site for authors to have a landing page and sell their book. The site will handle payments as well. https://leanpub.com/
9. ***Libgen. http://libgen.rs/, http://libgen.is (preferred, I just like the output format), http://libgen.st. Scientific articles, comics, fiction, standards, magazines, etc. You can upload books here too. https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=9B1C8656A75BE45EB2DB4E4DDF9082E0. Some links may need Tor (built into Brave browser at https://brave.com) or IPFS (International Planetary File System at https://https://ipfs.tech//).
10. Manybooks. 50,000 free ebooks. https://manybooks.net/ Includes categories like Sci Fi, non-fiction, Romance, Horror, and more.
11. Medicare. Books on US medicare. https://www.medicare.gov/pub/ebooks
12. Mises. Books on economy and related topics. http://mises.org
13. Occult Periodicals. http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/index.html
14. Perseus Digital library. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/. View works by original language, or a translation. Options for Arabic display and Greek display. Looks like you can read these online only, no downloads.
15. PDF Drive. http://pdfdrive.net/
16. Smashwords. https://www.smashwords.com/
17. ***Standard Ebooks. Public domain ebooks that are actually proofred. https://standardebooks.org/
18. UPenn Online Books. https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
19. US National Archives. There seem to be some magazine archives here also. https://www.archives.gov/publications/ebooks
20. Wellcome Library. https://wellcomelibrary.org/collections/digital-collections/. Free posters on AIDS, medieval manuscripts, Arab books, recipe books, mental health books, genetics, sexology, etc.

Sites where you might need a login

1. Barnes and Noble. On here sometimes the Nook version is free but the printed version costs money. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/b/free-ebooks/_/N-wZry0
2. Hathi Trust. Millions of books online. https://www.hathitrust.org/ Download books, read books online, login and create your own collections. All types of books here from old laws, American colony records, geneology, history, more.
3. Microsoft Press. https://mva.microsoft.com/ebooks/
4. Open Library. There are some very old books here scanned in as images. https://openlibrary.org/
5. ***Z-library. Sign in is now required. You can add books too but I assume you must sign in to do that. 4+ million books, 74+ million articles. Main site: https://z-lib.org/, Mirrors?: https://b-ok.cc/.

Religious books

1. Coptic Center. https://copticocc.org/site/?cat=3515&lang=en
2. Holybooks.com. Holy and mystical books from many belief systems. Mostly PDF. http://holybooks.com.
3. Theosophical Society. https://www.theosociety.org/

Lists of sites

1. https://opentrackers.org/downloading-ebooks-textbooks/
2. Ebook torrent sites. https://www.techykeeday.com/ebook-torrenting-sites/

Utilities

1. Convert from one ebook format to another. http://online-convert.com, one of the best sites I have found that is most effective at OCR too.