I have obviously not included famous oneslike the Project Gutenberg as many already know about that website. So stay till the end of this video to findout some new websites along with a bonus website at the end. Meanwhile, don't forget to subscribe and hiton the notification bell icon - to be notified of future video uploads, so that you don'tmiss them.
#1 ebooklobby.com
ebook lobby dot com has a humble collectionwith 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 10ebooks 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 witha 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 collectionof Public Domain Audiobooks. This will be loved by people who don't havetime to "read" books but can find time to listen to books through audiobooks. Simply click on their 'catalog' and find hundredsof 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 theseaudio books are claimed to be in the Public domain, they are so in U.S.A. please verifythe copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwiseyou may be violating copyright laws.
#5 free-ebooks.net
Free ebooks dot net is a website that hasa HUGE collection of books that are available to download in PDF, Kindle format, text orePub formats. These downloads are available only after weregister with them, which is FREE ofcourse. Go ahead and check it out in the links givenin the description.
#6 freetechbooks.com
This site lists free online computer science,engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legallyand freely available over the Internet. All the books listed in this site are freelyavailable, as they are hosted on websites that belong to the authors or the publishers. In other words, they don't host the booksbut simply provide links to the books in PDF or HTML format available at the author's orthe 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 collectionof Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books, which arewell categorized by topics, with 13 top level categories, and over 200 sub-categories. It has both pattern and keywords search enginesfor you to find the titles quickly. The key highlights on this website are thatmost of the books are links to other 'LIVE' websites where the books don't go out-datedas they are all maintained as current and latest by their respective owners. The other things is that they even have somebooks by OReilly publishers, some Mobile computing books where one can find great books on AndroidDevelopment, 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 visionof creating a modern and simple solution to documentation, digital writing and publishing. Since then, they've grown to helping morethan 250,000 people working together into writing 150,000 books served to 20M visitorsevery month. To begin, just go to gitbook.com and clickon the 'Explore' menu then choose a tag that interests you. For e.g. 'Web development' brings up theseresults. Let's say we go ahead and choose the latestversion of "Front-end Developer Handbook 2018" - as you can see these are updated just fewdays ago! Let me show you a demo of how and what thisbook covers. That's it. I am already excited to get a taste of thisas soon as this video is over. Go ahead, pause this video and try it outNOW.
#9 Onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
An online repository of books maintained bya digital library planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, this is aplain vanilla HTML site but has a great collection of books and is quite organized when we considerthe fact that it's just maintained by 1 or 2 people! Just go ahead and navigate through the hyperlinksgiven on their homepage to browse through the site by titles, subjects, listings andmore.
#10 openlibrary.org
Open library is just what it says - an openlibrary, that hosts a huge list of ebooks waiting to be read. It has all the classics, and some contemporarybooks. You can use its search fields to search forbooks or authors. When ready to read, it has a great book designformat 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 ourAndroid phones or directly on the web browser. I have provided a link to it in the show notesthat takes you directly to the Top Free section where you can download hundreds and thousandsof ebooks that are mostly short and crisp in their subjects.
#12 knowfree.
Tradepub.comAs the top destination for the latest research and publications, TradePub.com publishes curatedresources on behalf of the world's largest and most influential companies. The TradePub.com research library is #1 resourcefor professionals to access free research, white papers, reports, case studies, magazines,and eBooks. Professionals are eligible to sign up fora free TradePub.com Membership to enjoy unlimited access to the TradePub.com resource libraryincluding On-the-go access to all materials regardless of device or browser with an unlimitedaccess 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 tonsof FREE ebooks to be downloaded. It has a great list of books organized asper 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, ifyou 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 1000sof public domain books at the outset. With categories ranging from short stories,fantasy, romance, to the harvard classics shelf of fiction - there are twobroad shelves where all these books are kept in - fiction and non-fiction. Ranging from Dante's Divine comedy, the adventuresof Sherlock holmes, Treasure island, Around the world in 80 days, and much more, you canfind them all in here.
#15 Goodreads
This is not an ebook download site per sebut it has a curated list of information about books that are in the public domain. Now people who are into re-publishing publicdomain books with either an annotation, or illustration, or translation into Amazon'sKDP will find this TREASURE a HUGE help. This has books categorized into various shelveswith some even tagged as 'before 1923', as you can see here on the screen.
#16 ebooks.adelaide.edu.au
This is again a website funded and maintainedby a university, The University of Adelaide in Australia. It has a decent collection of books categorizedinto all these subjects. Although the site design is not that intuitiveor great, it does have some neat content and a collection of FREE ebooks worth checkingout.
#17 LoyalBooks.com
Now, this website is a feast for all readers. And that's an understatement. It has a GREAT collection of books categorizedinto various topics, along with providing ebooks for download in various formats fromkindle mobi, to pdf to audiobook. Thus the options are plenty and no excusefor us NOT to read. This website seems to be dedicated in makingall free books available to us through this enormous catalog of collections; no wonderit 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 butalso a collector, this site has many surprises in it. Classics, I mean, age-old scripts are availablein this site such as Upanishads, and other sacred texts that goes back to 200 BC andearlier. Works of Plato, Hippocrates, Sun-Tzu, Aristotle,Thiruvalluvar, and The Vedas, Ramayana can all be found in this remarkable HTML-onlywebsite. Go Indulge!
#19 Wikisource
We all might have heard about Wikipedia, butthere is another similar source for getting free books to read and that's Wikisource. Captioned as 'a free library that anyone canimprove', it's another free source for people who are looking to publish public domain booksinto KDP as almost all the books given here are cited with their publishing year, andmany can be found that are published in the 19th century.
#20 Baen Baen Books
This is now making available a numberof 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 booksin one of several formats. Again, with no conditions or strings attached. URLs to sites which offer the readers forthese format are also listed. Now here's a bonus website: This page fromgetFreeEbooks has a compilation of many topic-wise ebooks for any kind of reader. There are more websites that were worth amention, but for which I wasn't sure of the copyrights involved. Go ahead and check all of them in the shownotes below. As you can see, there is no shortage of websitesthat let you download and read books for free. If not already done, make up your mind tostart reading to become better in anything you are doing. Readers are, definitely Leaders. If not for others, this at least, can helpyou "lead" a better life. This and more websites are available as adownloadable PDF File in one single page on the TechLibrary.tv website - that is justa 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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