Top websites for download of free ebooks

Introduction

Books iconLooking for some e-book and cannot find it? It can be really time consuming and frustrating to endlessly search all over internet to find a digital form of some specific publication. 

Most free ebooks on internet will be found in common PDF format, which is a long time standard for digital documents and easily printed or read on all platforms with PDF reader utility. 

However, ePUB format for ebooks is a common sight nowadays, especially on internet or various online bookshops.

EPUB is the official standard of the International Digital Publishing Forum that is free and open source. It is reflowable (word wrap) and supports resizable text for different screens. It can contain both raster and vector images and embedded metadata. There is also support for DRM, CSS Styling and alternative renditions in the same file. All in all, it will soon be one of the most widespread formats used for ebooks and other digital publications.

You can also find other digital formats, but they are mostly commercial and meant only for special readers (like Amazon Kindle), hence you probably won't find many free source sites for them.

To save you time, we have prepared a list of some of the most important web sites that contains electronic publications for free. All of these top free ebook websites have large libraries of categorized books usually in PDF, ePUB, MOBI, or even some other digital format.

Bookyards

Large sites that directly or indirectly (through links) offers access to over 800.000 electronic books from almost any area. Available in several language mutations.

www.bookyards.com
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Free-ebooks

A top site with free ebooks that offers great number of electronic publications from almost any area. Ebooks at Free-ebooks.net are available in PDF and TXT formats for standard users and in ePUB, MOBI for V.I.P. (registered) readers.

www.free-ebooks.net
Visit Free-ebooks website

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers users more than 50.000 free e-books for download on their PC, Kindle, Android, iOS or other portable device. Books can be downloaded either in ePub, Kindle, HTML or simple text formats. This site contains books written in various languages, with majority being works of classical literature.

www.gutenberg.org
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Getfreeebooks

Another site that offers access to free digital publications. Aimed mostly on novels and romans, this site contains links to other web sites that contain books either in html form (directly on website) or for download.

www.getfreeebooks.com
Visit Getfreeebooks website

Freebookspot

One of the smaller libraries with free e-books, Freebookspots contains thousands of digital publications sorted in about 100 categories. Mostly in PDF format.

freebookspot.es
Visit Freebookspot website

Freecomputerbooks

Website with focus on digital books from information technology, computing, mathematics and other related areas. Contains links to both free and commercial books.

freecomputerbooks.com
Visit Freecomputerbooks website

Freetechbooks

FreeTechBooks contains free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet. Great site when you are looking for something related to computing.

www.freetechbooks.com
Visit Freetechbooks website

Wow! ebook

Wow!book is a large archive of mainly computer related publications, including e books about programming, hardware, web design etc.

www.wowebook.pro
Visit Wow! ebook website

Onlinecomputerbooks

A small website with e-books related mainly to computer, computer sciences and generally information technologies.

www.onlinecomputerbooks.com

Visit Onlinecomputerbooks website

Ebook3000

Great library of mainly PDF documents and books available to download for free.

ebook3000.com
Visit ebook3000 website

Pdfoo

Huge PDF library of over 300.000 books and other publications sorted in over 40 categories including arts, computers, politics, sciences and more.

www.pdfoo.com
Visit pdfoo website

Related software and links:

Adobe Digital Editions icon

Adobe Digital Editions    Microsoft Windows platform
Electronic book viewer based on Flash, a successor to Adobe eBook Reader

 
Adobe Digital Editions for Mac icon

Adobe Digital Editions for Mac    Apple macOS / Mac OS X platform
Mac version of Adobe's free e-book viewer and manager

 
Aldiko Book Reader icon

Aldiko Book Reader    Google Android platform
An e-book reader and manager for Android

 
Amazon Kindle icon

Amazon Kindle    Amazon Kindle platform
Popular portable e-book reading device from Amazon.com

 
Amazon Kindle for Android icon

Amazon Kindle for Android    Google Android platform
An e-book reader and manager for Android

 
Amazon Kindle for BlackBerry icon

Amazon Kindle for BlackBerry    Blackberry mobile phones and devices platform
A Kinde app for BBs

 
Amazon Kindle for iPhone icon

Amazon Kindle for iPhone    Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch devices) platform
An iOS version of Amazon's ebook reader

 
Amazon Kindle for Mac icon

Amazon Kindle for Mac    Apple macOS / Mac OS X platform
A Mac version of the e-book reader from Amazon

 
Amazon Kindle for PC icon

Amazon Kindle for PC    Microsoft Windows platform
A PC is software reader for Amazon e-books

 
Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone icon

Amazon Kindle for Windows Phone    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
Amazon Kindle app for Windows Phone

 

BePub    Blackberry mobile phones and devices platform
A free EPUB viewer for Blackberry

 
Bookviser icon

Bookviser    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
A free epub and ebook reader for Windows Phone

 

Bookworm    Microsoft Windows platform
A discontinued online e-book library and reader

 
Calibre icon

Calibre    Microsoft Windows platform
A free e-book library management application

 
Calibre for Mac icon

Calibre for Mac    Apple macOS / Mac OS X platform
A free open source ebook creator, converter and viewer

 
FB2 Reader icon

FB2 Reader    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
One of the many ebook readers for Windows Phone

 
FBReader icon

FBReader    Microsoft Windows platform
An easy-to-use e-book reader

 
FBReader for Mac icon

FBReader for Mac    Apple macOS / Mac OS X platform
Mac version of the ebook reader

 

Freda for Windows Mobile    Windows Mobile/CE platform
A discontinued e-book reader for Windows Mobile

 
Freda for Windows Phone icon

Freda for Windows Phone    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
A free e-book reader for Windows Phone

 
iBooks for iOS icon

iBooks for iOS    Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch devices) platform
E-book reader and manager for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

 
Legimi  - ebook reader icon

Legimi - ebook reader    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
A free epub reader for Windows Phone

 
Mobipocket Reader Desktop icon

Mobipocket Reader Desktop    Microsoft Windows platform
Desktop eBook reader mainly used for Mobipocket ebooks

 
Mobipocket Reader for Blackberry icon

Mobipocket Reader for Blackberry    Blackberry mobile phones and devices platform
Mobipocket reader for BB smartphones

 
Mobipocket Reader for PalmOS icon

Mobipocket Reader for PalmOS    Other operating systems or devices platform
Mobipocket reader for PalmOS

 
Mobipocket Reader for Symbian OS icon

Mobipocket Reader for Symbian OS    Symbian platform
Mobipocket reader for Symbian platform

 
Mobipocket Reader for Windows Mobile icon

Mobipocket Reader for Windows Mobile    Windows Mobile/CE platform
Mobipocket reader for Windows Mobile based smart phones

 
Okular icon

Okular    Linux/Unix platform
An universal document viewer for Linux

 
Raccoon Reader icon

Raccoon Reader    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
A commercial ebook reader for Windows Phone

 
READU icon

READU    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
A commercial ebook reader for Windows Phone

 
Sigil icon

Sigil    Microsoft Windows platform
A free open source WYSIWYG e-book editor

 
Sony Reader for Android icon

Sony Reader for Android    Google Android platform
A reader for now defunct Sony service

 
Sony Reader for Mac icon

Sony Reader for Mac    Apple macOS / Mac OS X platform
A Mac version of Sony ebook reader

 
Sony Reader for PC icon

Sony Reader for PC    Microsoft Windows platform
An old Ebook reader provided by Sony

 
Stanza icon

Stanza    Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch devices) platform
A discontinued e-book reader for iPhone and iPod Touch

 
Tiny eBook Reader icon

Tiny eBook Reader    Windows Phone / Windows 10 Mobile platform
One of the commercial ebook readers for Windows Phone 7

 

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