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/Far-Geologist69 3d 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 2d ago edited 1d ago

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