A Guide to Free Online Book Libraries


This page is dedicated to sites that provide access to thousands of free books online. In the rapidly changing information age, books are still not outdated. They are just moving to the new medium. I believe books will live as long as human civilization lives. Using VocaTalk, you can also turn them into audiobooks or series of podcast episodes with background music and audio fx which will elevate the experience to a whole new level. Has anyone predicted that one day books would speak their content out loud to us?

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a vast library of free books in various formats with over 30,000 titles. Since those are books with expired copyrights in the United Sates, most are pretty old. But there are timeless classics that any intellectual person should read.

ManyBooks.Net

ManyBooks.Net

ManyBooks.Net contains a library of free books that is comparable to Project Gutenberg. In fact, many book's origin is displayed as Project Gutenberg. But it provides a nicer user interface and ability to download the book in a rich set of formats that you can choose from. Since those are books with expired copyrights in the United Sates, most are pretty old. But there are timeless classics that any intellectual person should read.

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts

This is a collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy. Full text content is directly dumped into the browser.

The University of Adelaide eBook Library

The University of Adelaide eBook Library

Classic Works of Literature, Philosophy, Science, History and Exploration and Travel. All clean reading HTML content. They also provide full text as a single HTML file.

The Internet Archive Text Library

The Internet Archive Text Library

The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children's books, historical texts and academic books. The Open-Access Text Archive is a collection open to the community for the contribution of any type of text, many licensed using Creative Commons licenses.

Free Online Novels Collection

Free Online Novels

Online Novels contains the titles of more than 1000 online books written by both published and unpublished authors who have made their work freely available on the internet. The novels listed are organized by category, with brief descriptions taken from the websites on which they can be found.

Free-Online-Novels.com

Free-Online-Novels.com

Free-Online-Novels.com is about helping to meet the desires of writers and readers. Readers will find an extensive collection of links to free online novels, organized by genre (Adventure, Mystery, Romance... etc.) and alphabetically by title within each genre. Writers who have their free online novels listed will find an audience for their works.

This list will be updated as new sites are discovered and evaluated by us for their quality.

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