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There is no friend as loyal as a book — Ernest Hemingway

Apart from serving as a constant companion in solitude, books serve as food for the mind by stimulating our imagination and creativity. However, buying a new book each time can burn a hole in your pockets. Thankfully we have lots of free books online, ready to be read or downloaded without costing you a dime!

Where to read books online for free?

We have compiled a list of the best sites where you can read free ebooks online and download them legally to create your own library of favorite virtual books. In this list of top 10 sites mentioned below, you will find a comprehensive assortment of completely free online books, ranging from classic novels to computer technology guides.

Top 10 websites to download free books online

1. Open Library

open library
“One web page for every book ever published” – is the ultimate goal of Open Library, an initiative of the quite popular Internet Archive which serves as a digital library of Internet sites.
visit: Open Library

2. Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg
With a huge archive of over 57,000 free books for downloading, this website offers a diversified reading collection for readers. As Project Gutenberg is a volunteer effort to make books available for free of cost, it neither charges any registration fee nor requires you to sign up.
visit: Gutenberg

3. ManyBooks

With more than 50,000 free online books available on the website, ManyBooks serves as an excellent option for bibliophiles to appease their craving for good books. The site hosts a variegated collection of books formatted for eReaders like Kindle and other popular formats such as EPUB, MOBI, PDF, TXT, etc.
visit: Many Books

4. Bookboon

This website offers free books to read online in every category you can think of. If you are specifically looking for an educational textbook or business book, Bookboon will help you find exactly what you need.
visit: Bookboon

5. Feedbooks

Feedbooks
Feedbooks offers an immense collection of original as well as public domain books for free. The website has a neat interface with well-cataloged sections of books ranging from Short Stories, Mystery Novels, Action, Fantasy, History to even Academic Books and much more.
visit: Feedbooks

6. Free-eBooks

Free-ebooks
The tagline of this website “Read Anywhere. Anytime” says it all. Free-eBooks offers good literary works of fiction, non-fiction, and academic texts. The UI of the site may seem a little cluttered, but if you spend some time digging around the website, you will find a lot of free books to read.
visit: free-ebooks

7. LibriVox

Would you rather listen to books instead of reading them? Try LibriVox. It is a digital library of absolutely free audiobooks. The free audiobooks are read by volunteers that work to release quality recordings of classic books.
visit: Librivox

8. Smashwords

Smashwords
If you are looking for some literary work by Indie authors, Smashwords is the right place to look. This online directory of books offers content created by independent authors and publishers across the world.
visit: Smashwords

9. PDF Books World

PDFbooksworld
If you are looking for a good website where you can read and download ebooks in PDF format for free, your search ends here. This ebook publisher digitizes books that have attained the public domain status to be downloaded in PDF format which can be read on many devices.
visit: pdf book world

10. Bookyards

Bookyards
This web portal lets you browse thousands of free books online as well as audiobooks in various genres like Art, Biography, Computers, Fiction, History and much more.
visit: Bookyards

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