Top 10 websites for free e-books

Apart from the A-list e-book apps such as Google Play Books, Amazon Kindle store, Apple Books (which offer a limited number of titles for free) and old-timers such as Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive, there are myriad e-book websites on the Internet that are bibliophiles’ paradise.

These following websites offer completely and legally free e-books on almost every topic on the planet:

Open Library
A sister website of the Internet Archive, it contains all the e-books catalogued from the source website. This website hosts more than 10 lakhs free titles.

FeedBooks
This website offers popular and classic novels from around the world that are now in the public domain.

Smashwords
One of the most popular websites for independent titles. More than 80 thousand difficult to find authors’ e-books are available on this website.

BookBoon
Most of the books on this website are textbooks related to varied subjects.

ManyBooks
This website features more than 33 thousand free e-books and their best feature being their interoperability, which means they can be read on any e-book platform – Kindle, Nook and iPad

FreeComputerBooks
The website name says it all. This site holds nearly every tutorial books there is on most of the computer programming languages that exist.

FreeTechBooks
Similar to the above website, this one features even lecture notes related to computing and engineering.

DigiLibraries
This website features a very neatly categorised e-books catalogue. However, a lot of ads on its webpages makes it slightly unpleasant.

BookRix
One of the top websites of self-published e-books.

Europeana Collections
The most uber website for art-related e-books, it features more than 6 crore items which include digitised books, paintings and movies from cultural institutions in Europe.