Free Libraries
This section contains free libraries and databases; sites that offer more than one type of free media (apps, books, audiobooks, e-courses, songs, documentaries etc.) Please explore and use them as you wish!
Fiction & Nonfiction (Academic Libraries below)
- International project aiming to provide a a copy of every book and article ever published.
- Free and legal to use, no sign up
- Removed books can be downloaded using TOR
- Limits on # of downloads a day, donations increase limit
- hoopla is a groundbreaking digital media service offered by your local public library that allows you to borrow movies, music, audiobooks, ebooks, comics and TV shows to enjoy on your computer, tablet, or phone – and even your TV! Titles can be streamed immediately, or downloaded to phones or tablets for offline enjoyment later.
- books, magazines audiobooks, & apps
- requires account for download
- high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online.
- a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
- free comic book website
- volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, and to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks."
- The oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of books in the public domain.
- more than 50,000 free online books neatly categorised sections of texts in different genres.
- formatted for eReaders like Kindle and other popular formats such as EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TXT, etc.
- millions of free books to read on various subjects
- can be downloaded in other formats such as EPUB, DJVU, MOBI, and PDF.
- Search engine for PDFs. Currently, 112,512,086 eBooks for free
- Request a book feature: click here
- extensive high quality pdfs in various sizes and formats
- Mostly revolutionary texts
- Community drive of resources and practical works
- Many cool resources, but less than ideal organization
- incredibly extensive and well organized collection of free resources
- free kindle books
- an all-volunteer, non-profit public library
- complete spectrum of political, philosophical, and scientific thought, generally spanning the past 200 years.
- MIA contains these writings in 80 different languages, comprising a total size of over 180,000 documents
- More college textbooks
- Content from research libraries, Google Books, Internet Archive and local libraries.
- Large selection of free audio books to download.
- All in the public domain (in the USA), recorded by volunteers. The quality varies with crowd-sourcing in this way, but it's a highly valuable free resource.
Academic & Research Libraries
- scientific, scientific and technical directions, as well as file metadata.
- links to third-party resources hosted by users.
- All information posted on the website is collected from publicly sources and intended solely for informational purposes.
- high-quality, peer-reviewed, openly licensed college textbooks that are free online.
- Access over 135 million publication pages and stay up to date with what's happening in your field.
- organized categories and filters to find ebooks in various formats.
- not as many ebooks as other platforms,
- quality seems to be overall better than most.