Paper books are fine. In fact, almost all book lovers prefer to read from paper books and be able to turn the pages by hand. But, in these times where the mobile devices and tablets are taking on an increasingly leading role in our lives, it is also a good idea to consider reading at least some of the books on our tablets or, better yet, the ereaders, devices without backlighting that are made expressly for that. But where can we download free e-books? Well, there are many websites for it and the best of all is that many of these downloads are totally legal.
Next we will propose several pages where you can search and find almost any book. The list is not put in order of importance, but they have been put as we have been adding them. Of course, we have separated them between websites that are in Spanish and where, except for some strange cases, we will find only content in our language and websites where we can search for books in different languages, but on these websites we have only included some that include books without copyright. You have the complete list after the cut.
Open Library
Open Library is a project by open source software which includes books in various languages, but all are in the public domain. None of the books available in the "Open Library" are copyrighted or these rights allow us to download, copy and share the content. The only thing that is not allowed with free content is to sell it.
Website: openlibrary.org
Project Gutenberg
One of the largest e-book collections out there. Like Open Library, in Project Gutenberg we will only find books that are not copyrighted. The best thing about this website is the variety of languages in which we can find content. For example, we can find Don Quijote de la Mancha in Finnish, in case any reader is interested 😉
Website: gutenberg.org
Google Books
Being the most important search engine, will you not be able to search for books? Of course I do. Google it also has a section where we can search for books. If it exists on the internet, it is not hidden for some reason and it is free or free, Google will find it for us. Make no mistake about it. It has many categories and also in many languages, we did not expect less from Google.
Website: books.google.es
Many books
Many Books is a website that has a large collection of free electronic books, many from the Project Gutenberg collection, and others from the Human Genome Project. It also contains audiobooks and they are all organized by author, categories, and language. As with all of this multilingual list, all the books that we will find will be free or free, but no paid books (or if you find them, good luck to you).
Website: manibooks.net
epublibre
epublibre is not a website characterized by having a good image, but that is not the important thing. The important thing is that they already have more than 20.000 books in its catalog, a figure that does not seem very high, but that it is if we take into account that most are new titles. Another positive point of epublibre is that all books are layout by users of the web. In order to be an editor, they teach us and have to approve a job to verify that we model with a minimum quality. In addition, the community is removing errors and they are being corrected.
Website: epublibre.org
lolabits
Lolabits is a highly recommended search engine. Used to search any type of file, not just books. With this in mind, they have a great catalog and we can find the books in different formats. Without a doubt, this website is the first one you have to try when you want to find any type of file.
Website: lolabits.es
Books
QuedeLibros is a website with a lot of categories and they also have an authors section. They also have a forum where you can order books, so if we don't find something, we will we can order in your community. They have a fairly large database, so we can find almost any book without registering, although, if you like reading, you may be interested in being part of the QuedeLibros community.
Website: quedelibros.com
bajaepub
Bajaepub is not a website that has an endless catalog, but it already has almost 30.000 modern books and not so modern, since they have Don Quixote de la Mancha. Rather, they have important books regardless of their category or year. Without a doubt, another website that is worth saving in our favorites.
Website: bajaepub.net
ePubBud
ePubBud is a website where there is books in various languages, but it is in this part of the list because we can also find Copyright books. In addition to being able to search for books, we can also create, convert or sell our own eBook, something that I do not know if it will interest readers or someone who wants to sell their book, but it is possible that it will interest a writer without access to publishers.
Website: epubbud.com
EspaeBook
EspaeBook does not have sections, it only has a list of books in case we are interested in browsing their content. They also have a forum and news section, but what interests us is that we can look for books and find them. They have a large catalog in which we can find books of all kinds and of any year, so it is worth saving it in our favorites
Website: espaebook.com
Do it
Like Lolabits, DaleYa is a file browser. If you can search for files, of course you can find eBooks. DaleYa performs its searches on hosting services, such as Mega, Rapidshare or Mediafire and you also have the ability to add more servers. It is worth having it saved in favorites for when we want to search for a book or any type of files. It is better that there are options that are not missing.
Website: daleya.com
Download eBooks
BajaeBooks is a website very similar to EspaeBooks, but with the difference that we do have sections and we can browse the list of authors it has available. Have more than 21.000 books to download, a figure that does not seem very high, but that surely contains some of the books we can search. As I said before, it is better to have a page to spare than not to be missing and not find a book.
Website: Bajaebooks.org
Magnet Books
Magnet Books is a website where we can find .magnet links compatible with torrent clients like uTorrent or Transmission. I have looked for several famous books and it has never failed me, so we could say that it has the most popular titles. It has a list of authors, categories and we can even contact them to request a book.
Website: booksmagnet.com