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Books Search is a search interface for finding books from the OpenLibrary database, sourced from the Internet Archive, using Typesense. The site states it allows instant searching through 28 million books.
All My Books is cataloging software for Windows that builds an electronic catalog of printed books, e-books and audiobooks and tracks books read. It has six views, light and dark themes, and import from Calibre.
The Online Books Page lists over 3 million free books available on the Web, organized by authors, titles, subjects and serials. Its features include exhibits on women writers, banned books and prize-winning books online. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom.
Directory of Open Access Books is a community-driven discovery service that indexes scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and provides access to them. It also helps users find trusted open access book publishers. The directory lists over 109,000 peer-reviewed books, and its services and data are free of charge.
E-Books Directory helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Early English Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Essential Programming Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Five Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Free-Programming-Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Hacker News Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Hacker Recommended Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Mind Expanding Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Most Recommended Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
Music and Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
NPR's Books We Love helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
The Greatest Books helps search books, ebooks, papers, library records, or reading archives.
GoalKicker.com hosts free programming Notes for Professionals books spanning languages and tools such as C, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP and SQL Server. The site lists titles on Android, HTML5, Git and Linux, and states that books are updated weekly.
Books Unbanned is a national initiative founded by Brooklyn Public Library in 2022 to support teens' right to read. Partner libraries provide free digital library cards giving teens across the United States access to ebooks and audiobooks, including banned and challenged books. It also offers resources and a teen advocacy network.
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.
BookSee is an electronic library offering free downloads of books and magazines, with over 2 million items available via direct links. Most books are in fb2 format, and users can read some online. The site provides help pages, a search plugin, and an API. Books can be added by sending them via email.
Loyal Books offers free public domain audiobooks and ebook downloads. The site lists popular free audiobooks and provides search by title, author or keyword, plus browsing by genre. Ebooks are offered in English, French, Spanish, Tamil, Portuguese, German and other languages. Some paid book sections are also listed.
arthistoricum.net – ART-Books is an academic art book platform hosted by Heidelberg University Library. It is protected by Anubis, a Proof-of-Work anti-bot system designed to block aggressive AI scraping. Such scraping causes site downtime and makes resources inaccessible for legitimate users. Anubis is a temporary measure while the site develops fingerprinting to identify headless browsers, after which legitimate users will not need to complete the proof-of-work challenge. The system requires modern JavaScript and is incompatible with plugins like JShelter that disable these features.
Booksonic is a self-hosted audiobook server with an Android client, built as a Subsonic server aimed at audiobooks. The project is fully open source, and audiobooks can be streamed to a PC or Android phone, with functionality also available on other platforms that have Subsonic apps. Development is currently on hold indefinitely, and the page points to Audiobookshelf as an alternative.
CandlApp is a personal book tracker for recording books, notes and reading goals in a private library. It supports importing a library from Goodreads, marking books as reading, planned or read, and tracking progress page by page. It offers notes with spaced repetition, reading goals, statistics and favorite authors. A free plan is limited to 100 books; the Avid Reader plan is $8.90 per month.
