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What Are The Best Sites For Free Books You Can Read Offline?

A reader here who borrows library ebooks but wants permanent offline files for my Kindle; any reliable DRM-free sources for fiction?
2025-07-29 15:47:04
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Ellen Hila
Ellen Hila
There are also sites with apps that allow you to download their content to read offline. Sites that offer public domain books are a good starting point. Many of the libraries now also have apps (e.g. Libby, Hoopla) to borrow e-books. Occasionally I like to switch to something a bit more modern to liven things up. For a long flight I once downloaded for free the collection 'SINFUL PLEASURES: Short Flithy Stories' on one platform, which contained plenty of short, self-contained stories to read one after another. Because I knew that on that trip I'd have pretty spotty connections, I wanted content that I could read offline.
2026-08-01
Piper
Piper
For years I have been searching the internet for the best free offline reads. Here are my favorite spots to get great reading for free. Project Gutenberg contains hundreds of thousands of free classic books, many by famous authors such as Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and many others. Their complete works of many famous authors are also available online. Open Library allows you to borrow e-books for free from a huge collection of books, many of which can be saved offline as well as read online. I also rely on Librivox for free public domain audiobooks, which I listen to while commuting and they are very entertaining. You can download EPUB or PDF versions of offline reads too. These are some of the best sites for offline reading.
2025-08-01
Quinn
Quinn
Finding free offline books to read is like going on a treasure hunt, and I have found a few good sites to help you. The first site to consider is the vast online library of Project Gutenberg, which offers classics such as the Sherlock Holmes and Dracula books to download for free. ManyBooks offers a wide range of free books to download including a “mood” section and a “genre” section. In the “mood” section of ManyBooks I found The Yellow Wallpaper.

For modern books, Open Library offers a lending system for downloads which can be saved to your device temporarily. If you need more obscure books, academic texts, old cookbooks, etc. then Archive.org is a great resource. For your classic audiobooks, try Librivox, a non-profit featuring hundreds of classic books – all read by volunteers. Use Calibre to manage your eBooks and convert them to the format you require.
2025-08-03
Yosef
Yosef
offline access is so cool! There are many websites with free e-books that you can download. I recommend Project Gutenberg with more than 60,000 free e-books mostly classics but also others which can be downloaded in many formats. Open Library has also a big collection of e-books, mostly classics, and even newer ones, which can be ‘borrowed’ for offline reading. For contemporary works ManyBooks is very good, with a wide selection of free books, all beautifully formatted and sorted by genre (including sci-fi, romance…).

When I’m looking for something a bit more obscure I head to Google Books, where there’s actually a surprisingly large number of free titles if you dig around and can download them as PDFs. I also love audiobooks, and for classics volunteered by enthusiasts there’s nothing quite like Librivox. And if you’re looking for fan translations, or for more obscure work (including old magazines, etc) then Archive.org is the way to go – just bear in mind the copyright status of any work you download.
2025-08-03
Rob Green
Rob Green
Both Libby and Hoopla offer free, audiobooks for offline listening and the selection often exceeds the eBooks on offer through these services. Often you can download individual tracks or the entire book for offline listening at a later time. As an added bonus, Spotify premium subscribers have access to a growing library of included audiobooks that can be downloaded for offline listening too. For public domain audiobooks, there’s LibriVox, which offers a large library of free audiobooks, all of which can be downloaded as MP3 files to listen to when you like. However, the quality can vary between recordings, often depending on the individual reader.
2026-08-01

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