8 Best Sites to Download Free eBooks

Egidijus Hartkopf
4 min readDec 10, 2020

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How do you usually find an ebook online? Do you often purchase a book in the ebook store or grad one in a site when you are eager for a title? It would cost much if you often pay for a book. That’s the reason why here I want to share with you some sites I often visit to find and download free ebooks.

1. Planet Book

Founded by Richard Crocker, Planet Book is your home of the classic literature and the latest eBooks in torrents. Whether you like Mark Twain, Jane Austin, Anne Brontë or any other authours, you will find the book you want. It has a much clear interface and offers a wide selection of ebook formats for downloading including pdf, mobi and epub.

2. Project Gutenberg

With over 60,000 free eBooks available to download, Project Gutenberg offers a good reading list. As the mother of all current ebook sites, Project Gutenberg offers the world’s great literature and classics. The releases are available in plain text, HTML, PDF, EPUB and MOBI. Books can be searched by title, author, top e-books and even offline catalogue search. You can even save books directly to Google Drive or DropBox.

3. Open Library

Open Library is an online project intended to create one web page for every book ever published. It offers online 3,000,000 free ebooks for download, read and borrow. You also have the option to add a book to their library and contribute resources towards their cause to keep the content educative.

4. Zooqle

Established in 2008, Zooqle is a website of entertainment portal for people to download free eBooks, videos. If you love reading ebooks, it’s a good site to obtain ebook resources. The interface of Zooqle is beautile and easy to navigate.

5. Smashwords

Smashwords is the largest independent Ebook publishing distributor. It is fast, free and easy for any author or publisher, anywhere in the world, to publish and distribute ebooks to the major retailers and libraries. There is a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, essay, plays, poetry, and screenplays. Just make sure that you click the “Free” tab when you search for books, because not all the site’s 300,000 books are free.

6. Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library, so the contents in this site are totally free. It offers free ebooks, images, videos, audios and software. For the ebooks, it provides over 20,000,000 titles. You can choose download the ebook to PDF, EPUB, or Kindle format mobi.

7. Bookboon

Bookboon, different from other ebook download sites, is mainly focused on publishing eTextbooks for students. The subjects covered by Bookboon’s student textbooks including Human Resource Management, IT, Economics, Natural Science, Management, Engineering and more. All of us can sign up for free to download free eTextbooks. Most of the textbooks in Bookboon are professional ones because they are all written by professors and academics from the world’s top universities.

8. ManyBooks

ManyBooks is another good site where you can download ebooks for free. This site offers more than 50,000 titles. Among all the sites in this list, ManyBooks is the most beautifully-designed. You can easily navigate through the site using categories like Genres, Titles, Authors, Language, Popular, Featured Authors, and Recommended. You can easily navigate through the site using categories like Genres, Titles, Authors, Language, Popular, Featured Authors, and Recommended.

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