4 Answers2025-08-07
I get free legal thrillers from BookBub – many free books are offered on a daily basis. Occasionally a publisher such as Tor will make an eBook free to download for a period of time. Open Library at Archive.org is also a good source of free eBooks – you create an account and then borrow books. This is all to be done within the bounds of the authorized distribution of the copyrighted work.
4 Answers2025-05-19
I found this on Reddit (unexpected source of books for me). r/FreeEBOOKS is a constantly updating list of free Amazon books and others. I follow that subreddit and every now and then I download a book that catches my eye when it shows up at the top of my feed. It’s a firehose of content, but there are a lot of great books in there, too. I now have hundreds of books on my Kindle that I never would have found on my own.
10 Answers2025-08-11
For me, the most sustainable model to read is a mix of models: reading new releases borrowed from the local library, reading for free the classics available on Project Gutenberg, occasionally buying a book from your favorite author to support him/her directly, and using the author’s freebies to discover new series to follow by that author.
Each method for gaining access to ebooks has its weaknesses, and most are fragile. The site for the pirated book could get shut down at any time. Links to sites with free ebooks can become dead at any time. Ebooks can become corrupted. On the other hand, library systems and public domain projects are to be relied upon. They are funded by taxes or non-profits whose mission is to preserve and make available large numbers of books.
Support community based, long term, sustainable models of reading instead. Have the free book be a bonus on top of your regular reading from sustainable sources. That way you are building your reading habit on something solid, something that will last decades to come, and not on the mercy of some ad laden site hosted in a country where copyright laws are lax.
4 Answers2025-06-03
Looking for a legal PDF version of a bestseller? Try purchasing it from Google Play Books or from online eBook retailer Rakuten Kobo. Many authors and publishers also now sell eBooks direct from their own websites. Find out if your local library stocks eBooks on services such as OverDrive and Libby and borrow with your library card number. Avoid sketchy free PDF sites that may contain pirated copies of books – buy from reputable retailers and support the author.
7 Answers2025-08-05
Fans of speculative fiction may be interested to know about the SFF Online Free Reading Library, a selective list of short stories and novels available legally online for free. The library is not a download site itself, but rather a index to stories available online at the authors’ sites and the sites of publications that carry speculative fiction. It is a great way to read samples of the work of award-winning authors such as Charles Stross, whose whole collection of Satan’s.hs Update, is available for download from his site as well as from his publishers’ site. I have also downloaded the whole of Catherynne M. Valente’s The Orphan’s Tales: In the Night Kitchen from her site and her publisher’s.
10 Answers2026-04-04
If the real concern is accessibility (e.g., you use a screen reader that doesn’t handle PDFs well), then yes, that’s a valid concern and you should contact the author for an accessible version. It is unlikely that an anonymous download site for books would care about accessibility (they are scanned in poorly, often as formatted images of text, not as well-edited text documents). So, it is better to go straight to the source of the book and ask for a version that will work for you.
9 Answers2025-06-02
As mentioned earlier, some authors actually enable you to share their eBooks under specific circumstances. Examples for such actions by authors could be the promotion of a ‘share this eBook with a friend’ eBook. Please note though, that such actions explicitly grant you a temporary right to sharing, i.e. not anonymized, limitless distribution of PDFs via torrent sites.
It’s also worth remembering that copyright is held by the author, and even where we might wish to help spread a work more widely, the author may have other ideas. If they say ‘please share’, we should. If there is no indication at all that they intend to allow sharing – even in the absence of explicit restriction via a ‘ban on sharing’ – then we should assume no permission is granted.
Follow your favorite authors on social media as they announce sales, free periods of time to read their work and sanctioned events to share their work. The best way to read more books and support your favorite authors is within the legal structure of their copyright.
13 Answers2026-07-27
For free Asian web novels, translation quality reads a million times better than garbage. High-quality translations of original works of fiction (even “free” ones like those found on Wuxiaworld or Volare, for instance) far outstrip heaps of locally-hosted “aggregated” copy—all “translated” via some half-baked program of semi-automated re-pulsing via interpolation of works from paying translation groups. Take the time to click on to the original translators and their providers—huge differences between extremely readable original translated chapters and mangled stuff “summarized” for your reading “convenience” by web novel “aggregators”.
4 Answers2025-06-02
My Boox eReader has tons of free eBooks, including lots of audio books, from sites like Librivox, as well as the free section of Google Play Books. I also have tons of free public domain anthologies of 19th century literature by tons of now-obscure authors. Lots of writers are giving away free eBooks to their newsletter subscribers – for example, Brandon Sanderson just gave away a whole novel to his subscribers.
7 Answers2025-07-17
You can also use Bing Search.