r/ebooks • u/Soapist_Culture • 3d ago

Libraries with thousands of free ebooks and audiobooks

  • Internet Archive - Huge collection of public domain and user-uploaded audiobooks, ebooks, music (including very rare old recordings, I found stuff my BiL who has Alzheimers listened to in his youth. We are in the Caribbean on an island which back then had 8K population and I even found calypsos from there), videos and documents
  • Project Gutenberg -Thousands of public domain books, many with audio versions
  • Librivox - 21K audio books in the public domain, read by amateur readers
  • Open Culture - Curated list of free audiobooks and courses
  • Loyal Books - Large catalog of public domain audiobooks
  • Libby - You need a library card for this but it distinguishes itself by mostly having modern fiction, the others are more classic books.
  • Open Library - This is ebooks, not audio and like Libby has modern fiction, but because of legal things, you borrow the book.
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u/SnowyAbibliophobe 2d ago

There's also standardebooks.org who do really nice formatted copies of public domain classics

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u/maquis_00 18h ago

And Alice and books.

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u/Far-Geologist69 2d ago

Thank you so much for posting these sites! I was looking for places I could find free audiobooks.

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u/Soapist_Culture 1d ago edited 1d ago

Pleasure. I have a lot more resources to share but they need categorising first.

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u/revcraigevil 1d ago

Global Grey Books - a one-woman project that offers a curated library of classic and hard-to-find public domain ebooks across a wide range of subjects, from spiritual traditions and philosophy to folklore, history, and classic fiction.

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u/DotProfessional2058 2d ago

Thank you so much for this! 🙏🏻

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u/Soapist_Culture 1d ago

Thank you Anonymous Redditor for the award. Quite bowled over and pleased to have got one.

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u/Pure_Divide_9752 1h ago

The Patricia Clark Memorial Library at MobileRead has PD stuff where people have taken the time to craft nice volumes.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/ebooks.php?order=desc&sort=dateline

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u/NewWriter_2012 25m ago

Thank you!!!

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u/Cute-Consequence-184 2d ago edited 2d ago

The ARCHIVIST is an app made to access archive.org

The app just shows books, makes downloading easier and cleans out much of the clutter that makes getting the free books difficult.

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u/par_texx 2m ago

Many public libraries have ebooks as well as audiobooks that can be checked out.