Electronic books or e-books have become an increasingly popular reading format, the possibility of having hundreds of titles on a single device is a very attractive option for many readers, since practically any new book already has a version digital as well as one on paper.
A very positive aspect of this book format is that since they are digital they do not have to be printed, eliminating all expenses related to the design of the title, so it makes sense to find different works to download for free on the Internet.
The most normal thing is to find the great classics of Shakespeare or Cervantes, but we can also find more modern books in the public domain offered by the authors themselves or their publishers.
Today we are going to review 10 web pages with thousands and thousands of titles to download in the most popular formats (TXT, PDF, DOX, ePub, MOBI, etc) so that you can read them on your smartphone, computer, tablet, etc. -book or wherever you prefer.
Img: Alexandria
This website is one of the most popular when it comes to free e-books, despite the fact that its library is not the largest of all. This website has around 1,500 free books that have been published by the platform and are in the public domain.
This page focuses above all on offering classic titles of universal literature, but it also has more modern works.
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Another very good option could be ePubLibre, which has more than 34,000 books and adds new titles every week. You must register, but it’s worth it, since apart from being all free, it has forums and comments from other users so you can read their impressions and experience.
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Google’s own free library could not be missing, the browser offers a multitude of services, so it is not surprising that it has a specific section for downloading electronic books.
In it we can find almost any title, and it is considered the largest digital library in the world.
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From the same creators of Wikipedia, we find Wikisource a very similar concept but focused on the free distribution of books and translations in multiple languages. We can find more than 118,000 different titles only in Spanish.
The page has enabled the possibility of searching the different works by author, title, genre, period or country and even has an option to recommend a random book if you are undecided.
Image: Project Gutenberg
This is probably the oldest e-book page in existence, since it was founded in 1971. Today it has more than 60,000 works in several languages, which you can download freely without registering or anything similar, in any of the formats you prefer for the device you read from.
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This is a free public e-book lending service promoted by the Ministry of Culture. This is offered throughout Spain, except for Catalonia and the Basque Country, which have their own regional services.
This portal has more than 31,000 different titles, and to access them you will need an active card from a library that participates in this project, but it has the drawback that the loan only lasts 21 days and that there is a finite number of versions so it may happen that you have to wait for the book you are looking for to be available.
Image: Amazon
To the surprise of many, one of the largest ecommerce portals in the world not only sells, but also gives away electronic books, you just have to enter the platform and write “free books”.
It has a fairly large free library, however, the vast majority of these books can only be downloaded in Kindle format, Amazon’s e-book, so if you don’t have one, it’s better to try another page.
Img: Hispanic Digital Library
Continuing with the line of works digitization projects in Spain, the Hispanic Digital Library has more than 1,000 classic works with their original binding ready so that you can download them in PDF completely free of charge with one click.
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Digitized classics are easier to find for free online than more contemporary titles, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there. A good option where there are newer works and authors is TusLibros, which has more than 5,000 books that you can search through its categories or even its search bar to find something more specific.
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As its name indicates, this option is specific for downloading books in PDF, it does not have another format, but with this you make sure that it can be read on any electronic device.
It is not the website with the most titles, but it can be a good option and alternative if you cannot find the title you were looking for on other sites.
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