25+ Most Amazing Websites to Download Free eBooks - YouTube

In this video we will see 20 websites to download free ebooks.

These could be used to simply READ ebooks for leisure, to learn and to expand our knowledge,

OR We can also use some of the websites given

here to get your public domain ebooks that are sometimes totally FREE to even publish

on Kindle.

I have obviously not included famous ones like the Project Gutenberg as many already

know about that website.

So stay till the end of this video to find out some new websites along with a bonus website

at the end.

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#1 ebooklobby.com

ebook lobby dot com has a humble collection with ebooks categorized into different types

such as art, fashion, graphic design, photography, finance, biographies, computers, entertainment

and many others.

They also have a section that shows Top 10 ebooks categorized into various sections.

#2 bookspics.com

This website claims to have 275 thousand + books available to download.

They have a pretty good collection of books, except that they aren't categorized for easy

identification.

#3 planetpublish.com

This is a pretty minimalistic website with a neat collection of classic books such as

the Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Jungle Book, The adventures of Huckleberry Finn, etc, all

available in PDF format ready to download.

#4 Librivox.org

Librivox is a website that offers a free collection of Public Domain Audiobooks.

This will be loved by people who don't have time to "read" books but can find time to

listen to books through audiobooks.

Simply click on their 'catalog' and find hundreds of audio books, ready to be downloaded, which

can also be filtered either by Author, Title, Genre, or Language.

A little word of caution here: although these audio books are claimed to be in the Public

domain, they are so in U.S.A. please verify the copyright status of these works in your

own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws.

#5 free-ebooks.net

Free ebooks dot net is a website that has a HUGE collection of books that are available

to download in PDF, Kindle format, text or ePub formats.

These downloads are available only after we register with them, which is FREE ofcourse.

Go ahead and check it out in the links given in the description.

#6 freetechbooks.com

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks

and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.

All the books listed in this site are freely available, as they are hosted on websites

that belong to the authors or the publishers.

In other words, they don't host the books but simply provide links to the books in PDF

or HTML format available at the author's or the publishers' websites.

#7 freecomputerbooks.com

Everything in this website is 100% Free.

This includes, books, lecture notes, magazines, white papers, tutorials and much more.

FreeComputerBooks.com consists of a huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics,

Engineering, and Technical Books, which are well categorized by topics, with 13 top level

categories, and over 200 sub-categories.

It has both pattern and keywords search engines for you to find the titles quickly.

The key highlights on this website are that most of the books are links to other 'LIVE'

websites where the books don't go out-dated as they are all maintained as current and

latest by their respective owners.

The other things is that they even have some books by OReilly publishers, some Mobile computing

books where one can find great books on Android Development, iOS programming, etc.

Go ahead and start learning because your "imagination" is the only limit here!

#8 gitbook.com

Now this one is my favorite.

GitBook was created mid 2014 with the vision of creating a modern and simple solution to

documentation, digital writing and publishing.

Since then, they've grown to helping more than 250,000 people working together into

writing 150,000 books served to 20M visitors every month.

To begin, just go to gitbook.com and click on the 'Explore' menu then choose a tag that

interests you.

For e.g. 'Web development' brings up these results.

Let's say we go ahead and choose the latest version of "Front-end Developer Handbook 2018"

- as you can see these are updated just few days ago!

Let me show you a demo of how and what this book covers.

That's it.

I am already excited to get a taste of this as soon as this video is over.

Go ahead, pause this video and try it out NOW.

#9 Onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu

An online repository of books maintained by a digital library planner and researcher at

the University of Pennsylvania, this is a plain vanilla HTML site but has a great collection

of books and is quite organized when we consider the fact that it's just maintained by 1 or

2 people!

Just go ahead and navigate through the hyperlinks given on their homepage to browse through

the site by titles, subjects, listings and more.

#10 openlibrary.org

Open library is just what it says - an open library, that hosts a huge list of ebooks

waiting to be read.

It has all the classics, and some contemporary books.

You can use its search fields to search for books or authors.

When ready to read, it has a great book design format that opens right on the screen where

we can start reading right away.

#11 Google Play books

Next in our list is a little different one.

Google Play books.

This has the option of either reading on our Android phones or directly on the web browser.

I have provided a link to it in the show notes that takes you directly to the Top Free section

where you can download hundreds and thousands of ebooks that are mostly short and crisp

in their subjects.

#12 knowfree.Tradepub.com As the top destination for the latest research

and publications, TradePub.com publishes curated resources on behalf of the world's largest

and most influential companies.

The TradePub.com research library is #1 resource for professionals to access free research,

white papers, reports, case studies, magazines, and eBooks.

Professionals are eligible to sign up for a free TradePub.com Membership to enjoy unlimited

access to the TradePub.com resource library including On-the-go access to all materials

regardless of device or browser with an unlimited access to the complete TradePub library.

#13 Amazon Cheap Reads for Kindle

Now, this is not a famous website... wait, I am just kidding here.

Amazon, as you might not expect, has tons of FREE ebooks to be downloaded.

It has a great list of books organized as per categories when you use this special link

available in the show notes below.

Want to read free romance novels, or mystery, thriller and suspense, or just a classic book

or a science fiction, it's all in here.

Just go ahead and get your Kindle apps, if you don't have a Kindle device or simply read

them on your web browser by going to read.amazon.com.

#14 feedbooks.com/publicdomain

The caption itself promises to provide 1000s of public domain books at the outset.

With categories ranging from short stories, fantasy, romance, to the harvard

classics shelf of fiction - there are two broad shelves where all these books are kept

in - fiction and non-fiction.

Ranging from Dante's Divine comedy, the adventures of Sherlock holmes, Treasure island, Around

the world in 80 days, and much more, you can find them all in here.

#15 Goodreads

This is not an ebook download site per se but it has a curated list of information about

books that are in the public domain.

Now people who are into re-publishing public domain books with either an annotation, or

illustration, or translation into Amazon's KDP will find this TREASURE a HUGE help.

This has books categorized into various shelves with some even tagged as 'before 1923', as

you can see here on the screen.

#16 ebooks.adelaide.edu.au eBooks@Adelaide

This is again a website funded and maintained by a university, The University of Adelaide

in Australia.

It has a decent collection of books categorized into

all these subjects.

Although the site design is not that intuitive or great, it does have some neat content and

a collection of FREE ebooks worth checking out.

#17 LoyalBooks.com

Now, this website is a feast for all readers.

And that's an understatement.

It has a GREAT collection of books categorized into various topics, along with providing

ebooks for download in various formats from kindle mobi, to pdf to audiobook.

Thus the options are plenty and no excuse for us NOT to read.

This website seems to be dedicated in making all free books available to us through this

enormous catalog of collections; no wonder it doesn't surprise when we see that loyalbooks

was known as booksShouldBeFree.com earlier.

#18 GRTBooks.com

If you are not just a reader of books but also a collector, this site has many surprises

in it.

Classics, I mean, age-old scripts are available in this site such as Upanishads, and other

sacred texts that goes back to 200 BC and earlier.

Works of Plato, Hippocrates, Sun-Tzu, Aristotle, Thiruvalluvar, and The Vedas, Ramayana can

all be found in this remarkable HTML-only website.

Go Indulge!

#19 Wikisource

We all might have heard about Wikipedia, but there is another similar source for getting

free books to read and that's Wikisource.

Captioned as 'a free library that anyone can improve', it's another free source for people

who are looking to publish public domain books into KDP as almost all the books given here

are cited with their publishing year, and many can be found that are published in the

19th century.

#20 Baen

Baen Books is now making available a number of its titles in electronic format, for FREE.

They're calling it the Baen Free Library.

Anyone who wishes can read these titles online - no conditions, no strings attached.

Or, if you prefer, you can download the books in one of several formats.

Again, with no conditions or strings attached.

URLs to sites which offer the readers for these format are also listed.

Now here's a bonus website: This page from getFreeEbooks has a compilation of many topic-wise

ebooks for any kind of reader.

There are more websites that were worth a mention, but for which I wasn't sure of the

copyrights involved.

Go ahead and check all of them in the show notes below.

As you can see, there is no shortage of websites that let you download and read books for free.

If not already done, make up your mind to start reading to become better in anything

you are doing.

Readers are, definitely Leaders.

If not for others, this at least, can help you "lead" a better life.

This and more websites are available as a downloadable PDF File in one single page on

the TechLibrary.tv website - that is just a click away.

Simply go ahead and download it NOW!

And you can refer to it anytime in the future.

Go ahead and let me know your thoughts about this video

or if you know of any other website in the comments section below.

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Thanks for watching and you take care.

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