Internet Archive AlternativesOnly apps categorised as Ebook Libraries

The best Ebook Library alternative to Internet Archive is Z-Library, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Internet Archive and 15 are Ebook Libraries so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Ebook Library alternatives to Internet Archive are Anna’s Archive, Library Genesis, Project Gutenberg and Openlib.

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  1. Offers access to a collection of over 75,000 free e-books, primarily older works with expired US copyright. Download or read online in EPUB and Kindle formats, with no fees, registration, or special apps required. Supported by volunteer digitization efforts.

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  2. Openlib icon
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    Openlib is an open source app to download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive). The App Has Built In Reader to Read Books.

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  3. Wikisource icon
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    Wikisource is an online digital library of free content textual sources on a wiki, operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. Wikisource is the name of the project as a whole and the name for each instance of that project (each instance usually representing a different language);...

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  4. DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.

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  5. Standard Ebooks icon
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    "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven effort to produce a collection of high quality, carefully formatted, accessible, open source, and free public domain ebooks that meet or exceed the quality of commercially produced ebooks.

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  6. arXiv icon
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    arXiv® is a free distribution service and an open archive for scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

    10 arXiv alternatives

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  7. DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone.

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  8. ManyBooks.net icon
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    Thousands of free ebooks, pre-formatted for reading on your computer, smartphone, iPod, or e-reading device - ePUB, Kindle, eReader, PDF, Plucker, iSilo, Doc, RTF, Mobipocket, Newton Paperback, and zTXT ebooks ready to go!

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  9. eBooks.com icon
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    eBooks.com is a leading retailer of ebooks, with a vast range of ebooks from academic, popular and professional publishers.

    34 eBooks.com alternatives

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  10. Discover 1000's of new authors in hundreds of categories. Fiction and non-fiction.

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    • Freemium
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  11. eBookRadar icon
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    eBookRadar is a powerful tool that lets you search for free and discounted eBooks across trusted sources like Google Play Books, Kobo, Project Gutenberg, and Standard Ebooks. Whether you're into fiction, non-fiction, science fiction, romance, or classics, eBookRadar helps...

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