List of free eBook download sites

[KtmX]

Awesome. Thx to all the contributors for these links

[goalseeker]

BookZa.org
Thousands of contemporary ebooks in different languages. Free!

I believe this site is now down unless anyone knows of a redirect

[workerbee]

BookZa.org has been replaced by https://BookZz.org.

[mutant]

Hello
Thanks for this great thread. I need the following book and couldn't find it any where in PDF form. Your assistance is highly appreciated.

Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, and Practice

SectorVector edited Nov 02, 2014 07:18 am this post because: This thread is meant for 'list of free ebook dwnld sites'. Post eBook Requests in the forum meant for it. > eBook Requests

[emidius]

Awesome post! Thank you!

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Niice list I have a few additions: There are a couple of decent newsgroups that deal in ebooks(e.g.: https://binsearch.info/browse.php?bg=alt.binaries.e-book ). And free usenet (with low retention) is available: https://www.ngprovider.com/free-newsgroup-server.php . https://pan.rebelbase.com/ is a free/open source newsreader/binary downloader that gets the job done.

Finally, here's an old trick:

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Awesome post!

[Dinga]

For audiobooks, I know this good website:

https://librivox.org/

[jimburns]

I gathered a list (many from the link offered, and many from elsewhere), then I checked most of them and pruned about 20 dead ones, and here it is. Please note, I didn't check all of them, as I have to go and cook dinner)

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A custom search engine for ebooks:
https://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=000661...1-kkiboeco

Various sites
broward.org/library/pages/freebooks.aspx
ebookee.com, mirrored at ebookee.org
FilesTube.com (general, not only books)
https://2020ok.com (Directory of FREE Online Books and FREE eBooks)
https://avaxhome.ws/ebooks (but all on the same crappy file hosting site, with restrictions on multiple downloads)
https://book.libertorrent.com
https://bookos.org/
https://books.tr200.org  (Russian. Hobbies and Crafts =  Книги. ХОББИ И РЕМЕСЛА)
https://booksc.org/
https://club.topsage.com/forum-121-1.html (Chinese or Japanese site about programming languages)
https://ebookbrowse.com
https://ebook-download-now.com/
https://ebookee.org
https://ebookee.org
https://ebookjunkie.com |
https://ebooklink.net/
https://ebooksbay.org        
https://ebookshare.net
https://ebooksshares.org (need to register)
https://ebooks-shares.org/
https://ebook-torrent-library.info (need to register)
https://en.bookfi.org/
https://en.bookfi.org/    
https://forum.mobilism.org/
https://gen.lib.rus.ec   (They are blocking U.S. IP addresses, use a foreign proxy to get around it)
https://gen.lib.rus.ec Library Genesis1M
https://gen.lib.rus.ec/
https://ishare.iask.sina.com.cn (Chinese site)
https://library-genesis.com/
https://nips.djvuzone.org/index.html (Nips - high-resolution scans of the entire book collection "Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Volumes 0-13", with full-text search and author/title search capabilities)
https://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php? (Scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets)
https://onebigtorrent.org
https://pdf-giant.com/ (PDF magazines)  
https://textbooknova.com  
https://textbooknova.com
https://theaudiobookbay.com (audiobooks)
https://tuebl.ca  (The Ultimate E-Book Library. They allow private individuals as well as authors to upload their e-books on the website. These books are then made available for everyone).
https://uztranslations.net.ru/ (Language learning)
https://vis-ph.com/ebooks/
https://warez-bb.org          (need to register and then go to eBooks)
https://wormhole.in        (specializes in math/science-need to register)
https://wowebook.net
https://www.4shared.com
https://www.alleng.ru (Russian site)
https://www.demonoid.ph
https://www.downeu.com
https://www.downeu.com
https://www.ebook3000.com
https://www.ebooklink.net
https://www.ebookshare.net
https://www.ebooks-share.net
https://www.eknigu.com (Russian site)
https://www.esnips.com/*[53]
https://www.feedurbrain.com
https://www.filestube.com  (searches direct download sites
https://www.freebookspot.es (Free Book Spot]
https://www.freebookspot.es/
https://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx
https://www.free-ebook-download.net]
https://www.free-ebooks.net/
https://www.freeetextbooks.com (need to register)
https://www.giuciao.com
https://www.gutenberg.org (free and legal)
https://www.ipmart-forum.com
https://www.kickass.to
https://www.literotica.com (adult fiction and non-fiction stories, but not in e-book format)
https://www.manybooks.net/
https://www.mobilism.org
https://www.p2pelite.com/ (a torrent site for ebooks)
https://www.pdfchm.net
https://www.plentyofebooks.net/
https://www.torrentmybooks.com/
https://www.updatebooks.com
https://www.smashwords.com (large selection of free ebooks, in several different formats)
rutracker.org (by far the biggest ebook torrent site - in Russian)
www.scribd.com, https://freepdfs.net

https://torserver.sytes.net/

Specialized eBook private trackers. Google them for info (extremely difficult to keep ratio without paying)

https://bibliotik.org
https://bitme.org
https://myanonamouse.net (impossible to seed anything but the newest stuff)
https://bitspyder.net
https://www.learnbits.me
https://www.ebookvortex.com
https://elbitz.net
https://docspedia.org[78]
https://abtorrents.com[79] (audiobooks)
superiorz.org

https://thegeeks.bz[80]
https://theplace.bz[81]
https://thevault.bz[82]
https://bitseduce.com[83]
https://salad.tl[84]

Other
General private trackers have some stuff too, try places like TL or DH and trackers like them.
Reddit's private tracker BaconBits[85] has a nice collection of eBooks too.
Also, don't forget that What.CD and Waffles.FM both have a huge selection of eBooks.

IRC (Don't overlook this)
irc://irc.undernet.org/bookz[86]
irc://irc.irchighway.net/ebooks[87]
If you don't know how to use IRC to download books, check out this link[88] or read this:

IRC Guide
You obviously need an IRC client installed, a quick google search should find you a bunch of decent free ones.
Load up the client and then type:
/server irc.irchighway.net
This will connect you to the irchighway server. Once you're on there, type:
/join #ebooks

This will take you into the ebooks channel, which has more than 2.2Terabytes of ebooks for free download. Once you're in, all you have to do to find what you want is to simply type:
@search "Author or book title"
... removing the inverted commas.

You'll get a message saying that your search has been accepted. A few seconds later a searchbot will offer you a file, so accept the download. That will send you a .txt file that's zipped. Extract that and you'll get a list of files. I searched for Lian Hearn and got a list of 147 files. Here's an extract from it:

!bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 02] - Grass For His Pillow .rar - 142.1 KB !bald Lian Hearn - Tales of the Otori 2 - Grass for His Pillow (CO.rar - 355.3 KB !bald Lian Hearn - Tales of the Otori 2 - Grass for His Pillow (ht.rar - 140.54 KB !bald LianHearn-[Otori_01]-Across_The_Nightingale_Floor(v3).rar - 111.62 KB !bald Lian_Hearn-[Otori_01]-Across_the_Nightingale_Floor(v4.0.rar - 115.45 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 03] - Brilliance Of The Moo.rar - 175.53 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 04] - The Harsh Cry of the Heron (v1.0) (html).rar - 351.80 KB !bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of the Otori 05] - Heaven's Net Is Wide (v5.0) (epub).rar - 588.40 KB

Say I wanted to download the first book. I'd copy the text shown below, deliberately removing the file size information (I've been booted for that before ):

!bald Lian Hearn - [Tales Of The Otori 02] - Grass For His Pillow .rar

Then just paste that into the IRC window then press enter. After 2-3 seconds you get a prompt asking you to accept or decline the file.You know how to do the rest.


A tip
If you can get an invite to some of the Eastern and Middle Eastern hosting sites (not torrent sites) you'll find that a lot of content that hits "regular" sites has been there months before. Think China. And then move, cautiously, from there.

Another option
https://www.httrack.com/  Open-source web spider software. You can download web pages and all sorts of stuff and read it offline at your pleasure. This is not another hijacking/troll/off-topic post; you want a book? That's as closest as you can get to replace textbooks or educational material.

If you cannot find what you want and you're willing to pay a little bit
knol.pw  (about 2.000.000 books. You pay peanuts, 0.01 cent for older books and 0.50 for recent novels. Pay with bitcoin or amazon gift card.)

Thanks!

Spud17 edited Jun 06, 2015 13:53 pm this post because: Main part of quote spoilered so no one falls asleep rereading the same post. Please don't use the quote function unnecessarily, use it when you need to.

[gypsygirl13]

Thanks so much for this thread!!! Just found the book that I've been searching for

[kynutcase]

This list is super.  I hope nobody minds if I C&P some of these to use in the future, always looking for good books while traveling or waiting at other end (damn docs)

[interuniversal]

Another site is https://pdfebookdls.com/ for free ebooks.

Also https://mirknig.com/ for free ebooks in Russian and English