The Best Websites for Free eBooks
and Other Digital Content

Below is a list of popular places to get free ebooks. All are reputable and have been around for several years.

There are countless other places to get free ebooks on the web, but most have the same titles as the ones below, but in far fewer formats.

If you are a newbie and don't want to bother with all the different formats and sites, the best place to start downloading ebooks that are already formatted and optimized for specific devices is at the MobileRead Forums.

Project Gutenberg

Visit Project Gutenberg

The first producer of free electronic books, Project Gutenberg has over 30,000 titles to choose from, over 100,000 if you include its affiliate and sister sites for worldly books.

Project Gutenberg is more than just ebooks. They have several hundred audiobooks, some read by humans and others computer-generated. There is an expanding sheet music section. They have a news blog and an RSS feed for updates on newly-added ebooks, and a number of other resources too.

These are the most common file types for ebooks: EPUB, MOBI, Plucker, HTML, Plain Text, QIOO, MP3, some PDF.

The site is broken down into categories and you can search by title or author. You can run advanced searches to break it down even more.

Manybooks.net

Visit Manybooks.net

Manybooks.net has over 25,000 ebooks for download, and has been online since 2004. They also has over 1200 free audiobooks for download.

The great thing about Manybooks is that they have just about every format you could ever need, formatted for mobile devices and ereaders. They also have reviews below each excerpt of the book that anyone can contribute to.

Kindle users can visit http://mnybks.net using the basic web browser and download directly to the Kindle.

Baen Free Library

Visit Baen's Free Library

The Baen Free Library has over 100 free science fiction and fantasy novels available for download that the authors have agreed to place online. New books are added regularly.

Most format and device types are supported: Ebookwise/Rocket, Mobi/Palm/Kindle, Adobe/Stanza, Microsoft Reader, Sony Reader, HTML, and RTF.

Baen Free Library is a great place to download original, newer ebooks, and they also sell webscriptions that are worth checking out too if you are a fan of science fiction and fantasy.

Free-eBooks.net

Visit Free-eBooks.net

Free-eBooks.net has been around since 2000. They have a wide selection that includes ebooks they publish by authors that submit them to their site.

They also offer free trade magazine subscriptions; certain restrictions apply.

The ebooks are formatted in both PDF and MOBI formats.

For a small fee you can submit your own ebooks to put on their site; and they will help you promote it.

MobiPocket

Visit MobiPocket

MobiPocket is a good source for free ebooks for Kindle owners because they have over 11,000 free ebooks in MOBI format, which is supported by Kindles natively.

They have several hundred foreign language ebooks, such as 700 French titles, 170 Dutch, 100 German, 100 Spanish, 275 Finnish, and more.

MobiPocket also has a free software application for computer and phones, as well as ebook creation software, and they sell ebooks too.

Feedbooks

Visit Feedbooks

Feedbooks is a good choice for Kindle users and all other mobile wireless devices. They publish original ebooks by new authors, and have a wide selection of public domain ebooks.

Feedbooks is compatible with a number of mobile and dedicated readers.

Their mobile url is http://feedbooks.mobi, and users can download free ebooks directly from there with their browser.

Feedbooks has EPUB, MOBI, PDF, and Custom PDF formats available. They also have RSS and Newspaper features for news.

Kindle users can visit http://feedbooks.mobi using the basic web browser and download directly to the Kindle.

Diesel eBooks

Visit Diesel eBooks

Diesel-eBooks.com has been online since 2004. This website has about 750 free titles and also sells ebooks.

Their free ebooks are formatted for MOBI and Microsoft Reader. They also support Adobe and Palm for most purchased books.

Diesel-eBooks offers book bundles, which is nice for multi-book series, and a bit cheaper.

The Internet Public Library

Visit The Internet Public Library

The Internet Public Library is a public service organization founded at the University of Michigan School of Information.

The Internet Public Library is a directory that categorizes resources from across the web for easy access.

You can find a ton of reference books and education material from the IPL. You can also find magazines and newspaper articles from across the globe, as well as books and libraries and much more.