Today, reading has become an expensive pleasure. But just a year ago, you could download e-books for free in many places on the Internet. To read a book today, you need to buy it. Many works are not cheap. This is the result of the anti-piracy campaign. This is good for business, but not so much for readers. Therefore, many are interested in where to download e-books for free.
That is why we decided to make a list of sites where you can download e-books absolutely free and completely legally. We should thank enthusiasts and large companies for this opportunity. Below are the most popular and large-scale electronic resources.
List of resources where to download e-books legally
Electronic library of books Aldebaran
On the library website http://aldebaran.ru/ The largest collection of literature is presented.
The resource allows not only to read works online absolutely free and without registration, but also to download favorite books in various formats. Before downloading, you can read a summary of the work or read an excerpt from the book, evaluating the writer's style. The copyright holders have "cleaned up" the library well, but users have the opportunity to read classics and books by authors who share their creations with all interested book lovers.
SamoLit
On the website http://samolit.com/ you can quickly and conveniently download the ones you like e-books, without registering, and also upload a work and earn money from it. The site is popular with young authors who popularize their creations. Users of the SamoLit service have the opportunity to:
- download books in fb2, epub, txt formats;
- use the converter located on the website and create the required book format;
- create a virtual library.
LitRes
LitRes is better known as a store of electronic works. But here http://pda.litres.ru/ There are more than 26 thousand books that you can read for free. To download works, you must be authorized.
Project Guttenberg
Service https://www.gutenberg.org has collected more than 46 thousand eBooks in various foreign languages. These are mainly books in English, but there are quite a lot of works in French, Italian, Portuguese and German. Various categories are presented:
- works of art;
- fiction;
- educational literature.
The service has a convenient book search. Fans of new releases can search for a work in the "Recently added books" section. Every month, the site compiles the TOP-100 most frequently downloaded books. You can download books in various formats, as well as upload them to the cloud via popular services Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive.
LitMir
On the website http://www.litmir.me/ books can be read online and downloaded in a convenient format. Users are offered more than 210 thousand books. The resource is replenished not only by the site moderators, but also by the users themselves. The Eksmo publishing house demanded that Roskomnadzor block the site, citing the "anti-piracy law". As soon as the publisher's works were removed from the site, the service was restored and became available.
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