Page by Page Books offers hundreds of classic books that can be read online for free in a page-by-page format. The collection spans authors from Aesop to H. G. Wells, and the site provides browsing by author or title.
Open Library is an open, editable library catalog building toward a web page for every book ever published. Users can read, borrow and discover more than 3M books for free, and contribute corrections and new information like Wikipedia. It also provides APIs for book discovery and lookup services.
An experimental feature of A Book Like Foo, created by James Padolsey, that suggests highly rated books statistically unlikely to be read by people who share a user's reading tastes. Users enter books they like, and the tool finds rarest but highest rated intersections. The application requires JavaScript to function.
TasteDive provides personalized book recommendations based on what users like. Searching for a book returns similar books to read, and the site also lists popular books and recently added books.
byGosh.com offers illustrated classic books and stories for children, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poems. It also provides a 'Listen to This Page' feature with four voices, though the site notes it does not work on some devices.
DjVuLibre is an open source GPL implementation of DjVu, a format and software platform for distributing documents and images. It includes viewers, a browser plug-in for Unix browsers, command line tools for encoding and decoding, and a C++ library. The best encoders are proprietary and not included.
WeLib is a book and paper repository offering 43 million books and 98 million academic articles, described as free. The site presents a full database and academic papers section, along with popular titles, and gives options to listen, read, download, summarize, share and save entries.
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Open Library is an open, editable library catalog building toward a web page for every book ever published. Users can read, borrow and discover more than 3M books for free, and contribute corrections and new information like Wikipedia. It also provides APIs for book discovery and lookup services.
An experimental feature of A Book Like Foo, created by James Padolsey, that suggests highly rated books statistically unlikely to be read by people who share a user's reading tastes. Users enter books they like, and the tool finds rarest but highest rated intersections. The application requires JavaScript to function.
TasteDive provides personalized book recommendations based on what users like. Searching for a book returns similar books to read, and the site also lists popular books and recently added books.
byGosh.com offers illustrated classic books and stories for children, short stories, novels, nonfiction and poems. It also provides a 'Listen to This Page' feature with four voices, though the site notes it does not work on some devices.
DjVuLibre is an open source GPL implementation of DjVu, a format and software platform for distributing documents and images. It includes viewers, a browser plug-in for Unix browsers, command line tools for encoding and decoding, and a C++ library. The best encoders are proprietary and not included.
WeLib is a book and paper repository offering 43 million books and 98 million academic articles, described as free. The site presents a full database and academic papers section, along with popular titles, and gives options to listen, read, download, summarize, share and save entries.
