The pandemic does not rest, but we cannot collapse. For this we can use many hobbies and make this confinement something profitable, either to finish those series that we had pending, those video games without starting or enrich ourselves with some magnificent digital books. It's never a bad time for culture and for this we have many free options.
If we have a Tablet or Smartphone With a large screen diagonal, we can take advantage of a wide variety of online sites to download thousands of free titles. It is a great advantage considering that buying a physical book at the moment is very complicatedEven to buy them in an online store, there may be stock or distribution problems. For this we are going to give you the better options to have them from home and completely free.
You can currently try Kindle Unlimited completely free (and enjoy millions of books in all languages. Without a doubt, a very interesting option to take into account and that you can try from this link.
If you like audiobooks, there is also a test of 3 free months of Audible to which you can sign up from this link.
Editorial Promotions for Confinement
Some of the most powerful publishers are offering an assortment of free titles to show solidarity with the population. It is a good gesture to promote culture in difficult times like this.
Planet
This great publisher offers a pack of 11 books for this promotion. In addition to this, you will find a calendar where we can follow closely some additional reading activities available. In this way, we remain active to closely monitor the evolution of the offer. HERE we can access.
Anagram
Here we meet 5 works by authors awarded the Herralde Prize, to access your download through the platforms on which you distribute your books digitally, such as iBooks, Amazon, Google Play and some others. HERE we can access.
Standard
More than twenty works of youth literature They are part of the wide offer that this publisher offers completely free of charge. For all those young people who want to disconnect a bit from YouTube and Netflix. It is not easy to find the links for access, you can find them by accessing the section "other resources" section "resources", available in the tab of each title. HERE we can access.
Roca Books
This publisher offers in this case 14 titles of great literary varietyThese are quite important titles and will be available on up to 7 different distribution platforms. HERE we can access.
Errata Naturae
Twenty are the books that make up this selection offered free for download in PDF format on the publisher's official website. From dystopian stories or texts to facilitate critical reasoning and even some children's titles are part of the categories available for this promotion. HERE we can access.
Other ways to access books for free and legal
Here we are going to detail the most important platforms for the distribution of literary works, that in addition to having an infinity of payment offer, they have a huge catalog of free options. Although this is not a promotion due to the current situation, it is something that we can find all year round.
Amazon
La store par excellence in the field of digital literature, where we can find a great offer of free Kindle eBooks. Classics of literature in our language, such as works by Cervantes, Lorca or Miguel Hernandez…etc. We can also find foreign works translated to our language, although if you know several languages you can also download them in other languages. HERE we can access.
Amazon, in addition to having a great offer of free books, offers even more titles if you are an Amazon Prime customer, so you will even have a discount to buy a Kindle Paperwhite we already conducted a review HERE, to enjoy all your digital books.
Archive.org
In this website we can find more than 18.000 books in Spanish so that we can consult them from the Internet. Have books in various languages, for a total of 1,4 million books. They have suspended the loan waiting process during the quarantine. We can download easily a lot of content, both in PDF as EPUB, those titles that most attract you, it is one of the broadest sources of written culture that we can find. HERE we can access.
Let's read
In this case it is a payment service under monthly subscription, although we can access a Free 30 days trial. We can find more than 1000 written titles as well as audiobooks, something that is very comfortable if we do not want to strain our eyes at night. These are grouped between best sellers, classics and novelties. We have application both for iOS as Android. We have HERE access to your website.
Feedbooks
Here we can find thousands of classics that circulate freely thanks to the public domain, we have a wide variety of titles. They are grouped into categories. They are divided between those who belong to fiction or not, having from horror titles to help and education. HERE we can access.
Nubic
Another subscription-based payment service for the distribution of books, magazines and travel guides. However, it has a Free 30 days trial. Has application for iOS y Android so it will make it much easier for us to access it from devices with these operating systems. We will also have access from tablets, e-book readers and computers. HERE we can access your website.
budok
This time it is a service in which we find a marketplace of independent authors who edit their own titles. It has a specific section in which all those that have the option of free download are grouped in digital format. As almost all of them are divided into categories, among which we can find from biography, humanities and history, to poetry or psychology. HERE we can access your website.
Infobooks.org
Read, learn and grow is their catchphrase. It is divided into 3 sections, «recommended books "," books and texts in PDF "and" resources to improve your reading ", topics of interest with book selections, offer free licensed books and materials Creative Commons (it is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting access and exchange of culture) that are available on the internet. HERE we can access your website.
We recommend using electronic books that do not use the blue light source for its backlighting if we want night reading, since this can cause us eye strain and insomnia. If we do not have a device of this type we can choose to use the blue light filter or reading mode that now bring almost all devices.
