Books & Reading

The subreddit's accumulated recommendation lists, FAQs and reading resources.

The oldest digital library, 75,000+ public domain books free in every common format.

Internet Archive's catalogue of every book ever published, with borrowable scans of many.

Borrow ebooks and audiobooks free with a library card, the legitimate route most people forget.

Wikimedia's library of transcribed and proofread public domain texts, documents and translations.

Public domain classics painstakingly reformatted and typeset properly, the nicest free ebooks anywhere.

Academic consortium digital library holding 18 million volumes from research library collections.

Volunteer-read audiobooks of public domain works, tens of thousands of titles free forever.

Veteran cataloguing site for personal libraries with excellent metadata and tagging.

Reading tracker and recommendation engine built on mood and pace rather than popularity, the Goodreads escape.

University of Pennsylvania's hand-maintained index of over three million free online books.

Rice University's free, professionally produced textbooks for common college courses.

Federated, ad-free social reading network on ActivityPub, reviews without the corporate platform.

Experts pick and discuss the five best books on a topic, thousands of interviews deep.

Canadian public domain archive with titles still under copyright elsewhere, carefully proofed.

Index of tens of thousands of peer-reviewed academic books that are legitimately free.

Peer-reviewed, freely usable university textbooks, a direct answer to textbook pricing.

Enter an author and see a cloud of writers readers also like, the book version of Music-Map.

Find books by sliding mood dials like happy to sad or safe to disturbing instead of by genre.

Golden Age comics and pulps in the public domain, fully readable online.