Free Books
Find free public-domain books: clean ebooks from Project Gutenberg, scanned editions from the Internet Archive, and volunteer audiobooks you can play here at up to 3.5× speed. Nothing to sign up for.
Books you save are remembered in this browser only.
Reading
- Read online opens the book as a web page. Nothing to install.
- EPUB is the file for Apple Books, Kobo, Nook, Google Play Books and most reading apps. On an iPhone or iPad, tap the download and choose “Open in Books”.
- Kindle: download the EPUB, then send it to your Kindle with Amazon’s free Send to Kindle page or app.
- Plain text is the smallest file and works anywhere.
- Free reading apps: KOReader (e-readers and Android), Thorium Reader (Windows, Mac, Linux), and Calibre to organise and convert a collection.
Listening
- Find a recording looks for the book among LibriVox’s volunteer recordings and plays it here, chapter by chapter. Choose a speed from 0.75× to 3.5×; the page remembers your speed and where you stopped.
- A title can match the wrong book or a different translation. Check the reader and author shown, and use Try another if it isn’t right.
- For listening on the go, the free LibriVox apps download whole books to your phone.
- Recordings vary: most are a single volunteer, some are full casts. Many books have several versions to choose from.
More free libraries
- Standard Ebooks: the best-looking editions, carefully proofread.
- Project Gutenberg: the original, with over 75,000 books.
- LibriVox: free audiobooks read by volunteers.
- Internet Archive: millions of scanned books, including old editions.
- Open Library: borrow newer books free with an account.
- Libby: current ebooks and audiobooks with your public-library card.
- Loyal Books and Perseus (Greek and Latin texts). More on the Resources page.
Where the books come from
This site stores no books. Searches go straight from your browser to Gutendex, a free catalogue of Project Gutenberg, and to the Internet Archive for scanned books and the LibriVox collection. Texts: Project Gutenberg. Scans: Internet Archive (books printed in or before 1929). Recordings: LibriVox volunteers; files and player: Internet Archive. These books are in the public domain in the United States; if you live elsewhere, check your own country’s rules.
Text: Project Gutenberg, via Gutendex. Scans: Internet Archive. Audio: LibriVox / Internet Archive. Public domain in the United States.