Bookyards Editor: We love our website at Bookyards, but here are 50 other great online libraries and ebook search engines that you can use. (We will be updating and expanding this list in the weeks to come). If you have a website that you like and it is not on this list, please put the link in our comments section.
Ebook Search Engines
A PDF search engine with a database of 73, 000,000 eBooks for you to download for free.
⇢ PDF Drive
A PDF search engine with a database of 77, 000,000 eBooks and articles for you to download for free.
⇢ B-OK.cc
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books
⇢ Google Books
Free Online Libraries
A page of links to recent works (free) on-line from living authors: Books, Book Excerpts, Long Fiction/Non-Fiction.
⇢ Alive & Free
This simple to explore site lists completely free books from a variety of different authors.
The site’s purpose is to bring public domain books from sites like Project Gutenberg into a form easily readable in a web browser.
⇢ Authorama
An online library of downloadable science fiction novels.
⇢ Baen Free Library
Bibliomania gives readers over 2,000 free classics, including literature book notes, author bios, book summaries, and study guides. Free books are presented in chapter format.
⇢ Bibliomania
BookRix is a free self publishing platform that offers eBook distribution services to independent writers. Thousands of free ebooks are available.
⇢ BookRix
A collection of Christian literature.
⇢ Christian Classics Ethereal Library
Public domain books organized into collections. The complete works of William Shakespeare, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens or Mark Twain, among others.
⇢ Classic Literature Library
DailyLit
The platform’s offer should suit modern-day people who are always in a hurry. You can read an ebook in daily installments, delivered by mail or RSS feed.
Apart from DailyLit’s own serialized fiction, you can find here hundreds of classic novels. Pride and Prejudice and War of the Worlds were two first books offered on platform’s launch in 2006.
The site lists books in 14 categories, including short stories, horror, and coming of age.
⇢ DailyLit
DPLA is aimed at giving universal access to digital resources of American libraries and archives.
The Bookshelf catalog includes over 1.6 million items. Perform a search, and from a book detail page, you’ll be redirected to a relevant website, where you can further read it online or download.
⇢ Digital Public Library of America
The Internet Archive offers over 15,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 550,000 modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
⇢ eBooks and Texts - Internet Archive
A collection of ebooks organized by category.
⇢ eBook Lobby
Europeana offers access to millions of digitized items from European museums, libraries, and archives.
To find free public domain books, search for the author or title, and in the left-side panel narrow results by file type (“text”), and by copyright (“public domain marked”).
⇢ Europeana
This French ebook site is designed with mobile reading in mind. It’s tailored for mobile browsers, so you can download free ebooks directly to your tablet or smartphone.
Feedbooks offers thousands of public domain ebooks in five languages. Unlike in Internet Archive, most of the free books have covers to look good on your e-reader or e-reading application.
⇢ Feedbooks
Another large collection of free online computer books.
⇢ Free Computer Books
Free-EBooks
Free-eBooks has free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors. Besides free ebooks, you also download free magazines or submit your own ebook.
⇢ Free-EBooks
FreeTechBooks lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books,textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
⇢ Free Tech Books
FullBooks.com: organized alphabetically; there are a thousands of books here.
⇢ Full Books
Getfreeebooks is another free online library.
⇢ Get Free Ebooks
A repository of works of classic writers and philosophers, from Sophocles to Epicurus, to Sun-Tzu.
The books in digital format can be read here online as html files.
⇢ Great Books and Classics
Browse through a wide selection of high quality free books for children here. Check out Simple Search to get a big picture of how this library is organized: by age, reading level, length of book, genres, and more.
⇢ International Digital Children's Library
The website is a huge repository of text, audio and video files, including public domain titles. You can browse and read online over 5 million books and items from over 1,500 collections.
The collections include the Library of Congress, American libraries, Canadian libraries, books from Project Gutenberg, and from the Million Books Project, as well as books for children.
On Internet Archive you will find book files in over 180 languages.
⇢ Internet Archive
Sacred Texts contains the web’s largest collection of free books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric in general.
⇢ Internet Sacred Text Archive
Digitizes French texts in the public domain.
⇢ L'Association des Bibliophiles Universels
The site makes free audio books from texts that entered the public domain in Europe.
⇢ Legamus
Founded in 2005, LibriVox is an extensive library of free public domain audiobooks.
Volunteers record chapters of public domain books. Afterwards, LibriVox releases the audio file for free in the public domain, and you may use it the way you like.
⇢ LibriVox
Literature Network
A library that focuses on classical literature from the best known authors throughout history.
⇢ Literature Network
A collection of 6,000 ebooks in French
⇢ Livres pour tous ®
The site offers thousands of free public domain books, like audiobooks or text files. Titles in 30 languages can be found here.
⇢ Loyal Books
ManyBooks provides free ebooks for your PDA, iPod or eBook Reader.
⇢ Many Books
Open Culture is a popular blog that curates access to educational and cultural media.
Among several collections, you can find here a directory of over 1,000 free ebooks. Most of them are in public domain.
⇢ Open Culture
The site is a project of the Internet Archive and is intended to create “one web page for every book ever published”.
There are over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available. Most of the titles are public domain, but you can also find here a growing lending library of over 200,000 contemporary ebooks.
If the book is available in digital form, a Read button is shown next to its catalog listing.
⇢ Open Library
A decent collection of popular works of classic literature, in pdf format.
⇢ Planet Publish
Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
⇢ Project Gutenberg
Thousands of ebooks permitted under Australian copyright law.
⇢ Project Gutenberg Australia
Public domain books in Finnish and Swedish.
⇢ Projekti Lönnrot
More than 5,000 free books are available for download here, alphabetized both by title and by author.
⇢ Questia Public Library
Only has classic books and those with Creative Commons licenses. No way to download free books directly from this site
⇢ Read Print
Scribd, the online document sharing site which supports Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF and other popular formats. You can download a document or embed it in your blog or web page.
⇢ Scridb
Another site that isn't strictly for free books, Slideshare does offer a large amount of free content for you to read. It is an online forum where anyone can upload a digital presentation on any subject.
⇢ SlideShare
Over 30,000 free ebooks
⇢ The Online Books Page
Illustrated children's books
⇢ Children's Books Online, the Rosetta Project
Wikibooks is an open collection of (mostly) textbooks. You can see all that Wikibooks has to offer in Books by Subject.
⇢ Wikibooks
Online library of user-submitted and maintained content. While you won't technically find free books on this site, at the time of this writing, over 200,000 pieces of content are available to read.
⇢ Wikisource
Extremely well-managed collection of free public domain books in the Polish language.
Currently, there are over 2,300 titles available, either for online reading or to download (epub, mobi, pdf formats).
⇢ Wolne Lektury
A mass directory for free online books and free ebooks and have a big collections of ebooks in different categories like Art,photography,Spirituality,Science,mystery and thrillers etc…
⇢ 2020OK
