If you want to read a lot more, you will have to turn to digital reading. Today, it is possible to use websites to download free ebooks, comics but also audio books.
This article gathers the best websites to download free books in English and also in other languages.
These lists are not exhaustive, but they allow access to a large number of freely accessible contents.
Download free books in English
- Free ebooks on Amazon : you can find a lot of free ebooks to download on Amazon
- Amazon Prime Reading : if you are a Prime member, you can download ebooks for free from bestsellers and known authors (see Prime Reading to know more)
- https://archive.org/details/texts : a reference site with texts in all languages, including a very large selection in English
- https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/ : scientific books (especially programming) in all languages
- http://www.gutenberg.org/ : the site with free books in all languages
- https://standardebooks.org : a very good quality selection (in English)
- https://www.globalgreyebooks.com/ : again, the ebooks are very well designed and perfectly adapted to the e-readers
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Main_Page : a site of the Wikipedia group which aims to make great texts in English accessible to as many people as possible (you can also read them online)
- http://dlib.nyu.edu/aco/browse/ : free Arabic digital books (ebooks) to download (المجموعات العربية على الانترنت)
- https://www.obooko.com/: a collection of 3000 free ebooks
Download free books in French
- http://fr.feedbooks.com/publicdomain : French books to download for free
- https://www.ebooksgratuits.com/ : a nice interface and a site with many free ebooks
- http://www.noslivres.net/
- http://efele.net/ebooks/
- http://www.bibebook.com/
- http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/fr
- https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Accueil : More than 300 000 great texts in French
- Galica : the website of the BnF archives
- https://www.chineancienne.fr/ : free books and texts about China
- https://libretheatre.fr/ : free plays to download
- https://archive.org/details/texts?and[]=languageSorter%3A%22French%22 : hundreds of thousands of books (you have to search a bit, but there are some nice things)
Download free comic books in English (manga, comics)
You can find many online comic books for free download on this list of websites:
- https://www.comixology.com/ : you just have to create an account to have access to a lot of albums in English (often tomes 1 of series) - there are also regular promotional offers
- https://digitalcomicmuseum.com/ : US Comics from the golden age with western, SF, horror, superheroes (you just have to create an account to download for free)
- https://comicbookplus.com/ : again, comics from the golden age of American comics
- https://imagecomics.com/comics/read-first-issues
Download free audiobooks in English and other languages
If you practice English or another language and want to learn and develop your listening skills, you can also download free audio books in English from these sites :
- https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/1 : audio book in English
- http://www.loyalbooks.com/ : a bit of everything
- https://librivox.org/
- https://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks
- https://www.storynory.com/ : audiobooks for children in English
- https://www.digitalbook.io/ : free audiobooks and ebooks
- The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection : Thousands of free and open audiobooks powered by Microsoft AI
- Lit2Go : a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format
Download free audiobooks in French
If you want to enjoy your free time by listening to books in French, here is a list of websites that will allow you to download and listen to audio books for free:
- https://archive.org/details/AuFilDesLectures : a selection of classic texts
- http://www.litteratureaudio.com/ : a reference with many free and high quality audio books in French
- https://www.audiocite.net/
- http://www.bibliboom.com/
- http://www.loyalbooks.com/language/French
- https://librivox.org/search?primary_key=2&search_category=language&search_page=1&search_form=get_results : some audio books that you can't find elsewhere
- https://livreaud.io/
