Free E-books!

The following is a list of websites offering free e-book/e-audiobook/e-manga/comic book resources. Keep on reading!

• Standard E-Books: A collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks. 
• Project Gutenberg: a library of over 60,000 free eBooks, featuring the world’s great literature here, with a focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.
• The Online Books Page: Provides a searchable database to a long list of authors and books that have fallen into Public Domain. Maintained by the University of Pennsylvania, which also highlights a celebration of women writers.
• Bibliomania: Thousands of e-books, poems, articles, short stories and plays, in easy formatting to make it accessible to the visually impaired using screen readers and speech synthesisers.
• HathiTrust: A partnership of academic and research institutions, it offers a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
• Many Books: More than 50,000 free ebooks in a number of genres, you can also search for books in multiple languages.
• Free Computer Books: Provides books on computers/coding, mathematics, technical books, and more, as well as lecture notes. This site only provides links, the books are hosted on multiple other sites.
• Librivox: provides free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world.
• International Children’s Digital Library: a digital library of outstanding children’s books from around the world and in hundreds of languages. 
• Internet Archive: a library of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts, and academic books based on a wide range of interests. Includes archives of old radio shows too.
• Questia: a library of more than 5,000 free books filled with classics, rarities, and textbooks; they also offer tutorials for writing research papers.
• Free eBooks.net: Offers five free books per month of fiction, nonfiction, academic, textbooks, and (children and adult) audiobooks.
• ProPlay: Offers the text of professionally-produced stage plays.
• Audible (Amazon): They are offering some e-audiobooks for free, esp aimed at children
• The Chronicles of Now: Short fiction torn from today’s headlines; major authors are commissioned to write short stories inspired by news of the day.
• Ghost City Press: Offers pdfs of their annual Micro-Chapbook Series; poetry. 
• Junior Library Guild: Offering free access to online reading platforms. Includes access to Aiden Tyler, Quaran-Teen, a new and original story being updated in real time, illustrated, and read aloud by Rex Ogle each week.
• enki: Offers open access to a large range of e-books; includes graphic novels and kids’ comics. (may be CA-based only)
• Epic Stream: A list of where to find the over 450 volumes of manga being made available to read for free online.
• Roadmap to Resilience: Recommended by PC Behavioral Health, this book by Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D. has been made free and offers help in dealing with the crisis.
  
• Audiobooks.org: free audiobooks
• BookBoon: free textbooks written by professors from the world’s top universities, covering topics from Engineering and IT to Economics and Business.
• Google eBookstore: free ebooks and audio books from google play.
• Open Bookshelf: a digital library collection of popular books free to download, formatted for modern devices, and handpicked by a Curation Corps of librarians from across the US.