Online Books: Five Websites to Read for Free

There are several websites that you can read articles and books for free. Here, some of these websites.

Before looking for free book, the first thing that you need to understand is what is a free book. Free book is a book that you can read and use unlimited because it is in the public domain. Copyrighted books are only free if the author or publisher allow to use for free. Looking for free books or free articles in the Internet you can find many websites that offer free books. Here, it is a review of the best websites to read for free.

Read Print

In this website you can find literature articles and free books of famous writers like Agatha Christie, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Victor Hugo and others. Also, you can find a special section of Shakespeare’s literature.

The Online Books Page

This website is listing more than 30,000 free books. You can search books by author and by title. For books that are not free, it has an index of electronic publishers

Free Books

It offers many books that are in the public domain. You can find many links to other digital libraries

Project Gutenberg.org

It is a collection produced by volunteers. They keep the site with donations. This site has more than 25,000 free books.

Libribox

You can find free audio-books from the public domain. This website is available in the following languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese, Czech and Chinisse. Volunteers record the text of the books.

There are other websites that you can find books Wikisource.org, Scribd, and using Google Scholar you can read selected part of copyrighted books. 

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  1. Posted December 17, 2008 at 9:23 pm

    Thanks for that. Also, if you know what book you want you can tru googling the book name and then text. So, for example, if you google Macbeth text you will get several online versions of the play and you can choose which version (format, etc.) you prefer.

    Regards,

    Inna

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