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39 Best Websites to Find Free Textbooks, Research Papers, Study Guides, and Books

Whether you’ve just received a long list of textbooks you need for a specific uni class or are looking for a particular book/research paper for a high school project, books (and journal subscriptions) can be expensive.

The good news is that there are plenty of resources online where you can find free PDF versions of most written materials, starting with Atkinson & Hilgard’s Introduction to Psychology and ending with Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Note that although some of the websites below provide access to copyright-free texts only, or texts that publishers/authors have agreed to share freely, others have been accused of internet privacy.

However, many people see open access practices as morally acceptable, especially considering the unsustainable prices of academic textbooks and papers.

To quote a recent paper on the topic:

"Since shadow libraries are a product of the cooperation between scholars, who contribute texts and other resources (such as donations, volunteer work, etc.), shadow libraries represent a ‘bottom-up’, radical approach to open access: a physical approximation of the Platonic ideal of knowledge sharing that would exist if there were no legal, economic, or institutional barriers to the circulation of scholarly knowledge."

Free Textbooks

Library Genesis

Library Genesis, or Libgen for short, is a shadow online library website where college students can find academic books (including those that are hard to find/very expensive) and scholarly journal articles.

The site also hosts general-interest books, audiobooks, comics, magazines, and images.

Z-Library

Z-Library is another shadow library website that hosts college textbooks, scholarly journal articles, and general-interest books. It calls itself “the world’s largest e-book library.” It mirrors Library Genesis.

The front page also features some of the most popular books at the time. When we viewed it, these included “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and Harry Potter the Complete Collection by J. K. Rowling.

You can also use the right-hand navigation menu to see the books that have been added most recently, as well as sort through books based on category.

Use the Book Request option if you can’t find a book you’re looking for. There’s no guarantee your book will be added, but community members look at requests to see what books to upload (you can also upload books).

PDF Drive

PDF Drive is an online library with a ton of free ebooks and PDF textbooks in various categories, including academic & education (but also lifestyle, personal growth, art, linguistics, etc.)

ForCoder.su

Forcoder.su has lots of online textbooks on programming. It also provides free access to online courses, like Apache Kafka for beginners and object-oriented programming with Python. Currently, there are hundreds of free courses available.

Online Mathematics Textbooks

Online Mathematics Textbooks is your source for free digital textbooks on all things math. It’s just one page featuring 77 textbooks.

Tech Books for Free Download

Tech Books for Free Download is where you’ll find free science and engineering books on topics ranging from data mining to general relativity.

There’s no way to search for books easily. However, the site is divided into books on Linux, Java, Microsoft, C and C++, Perl/Python, Science, Networking, Database, Security, and Assembly.

Free Tech Books

Free Tech Books is an open textbook library. It provides access to free computer science books and textbooks, plus lecture notes. All the books and lecture notes listed on this site are freely available on authors’ and/or publishers’ sites.

You can browse books by category (computer science, mathematics, supporting fields, operating system, programming/scripting, miscellaneous), author, publisher, or license.

Directory of Open Access Books

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a website that indexes and provides access to academic, peer-reviewed open-access books. All disciplines are covered, but there’s a particular emphasis on humanities, social sciences, and law.

Ubiquity Press

Ubiquity Press has been an open-access publisher of academic, peer-reviewed books and journals since 2012. It was founded by University of College London (UCL) researchers.

Research Papers

Sci-Hub

Sci-hub has the most expansive collection of research papers. Its mission is to “remove all barriers in the way of science.”

Directory of Open Access Journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory of open-access, peer-reviewed research journals covering humanities, social sciences, technology, science, medicine, and art.

The directory indexes journals from different countries and languages. DOAJ is supported financially by publishers, libraries, and other organizations.

Wiley Open Access

Wiley Open Access provides peer-reviewed open-access journals across topics like biochemistry, economics, sociology, mathematics, and law.

SpringerOpen

SpringerOpen publishes open-access journals across a wide range of areas, mainly STEM.

Elsevier

Elsevier publishes open-access, peer-reviewed journals. You can search for journals by title, keyword, or subject (dentistry, nursing, decision sciences, etc.)

Springer Link

Springer Link provides access to ebooks, peer-reviewed journal articles, and other resources (mostly scientific).

BASE

BASE is a search engine for academic texts, including journals, digital collections, institutional repositories, etc. You can access about 60% of the indexed texts for free.

Study Guides

Bibliomania

Bibliomania has study guides to the most-read books, like “A Hero of Our Time,” “Animal Farm,” and even Irish politics. It also has over 2,000 classic texts, book summaries, author biographies, and more.

Books

Open Library

Open Library is an open library catalog of more than 3 million new and old books. The project was created by the nonprofit organization Internet Archive. It has also received partial funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation and the California State Library.

You can read old books without an account. However, for new books, you’ll need to set one up (it takes just a few minutes).

Internet Archive

Internet Archive is a digital library of ebooks. It also has free movies, music, and software.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a famous site where you can find lots of free books. There are more than 60,000 books in its collection.

Standard Ebooks

Standard Ebooks take public domain texts and make them as nice as new books. They fix typographical errors and typos, create cool cover art, and format the text for e-readers like Kindle and iPad.

Planet eBook

Planet eBook is where you can download free PDF copies of classics like Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness.

What really makes Planet eBook stand out is its UX. It’s one of those rare sites that are super easy to navigate and actually look good (aesthetically speaking).

The Ultimate Book Search Engine

The Ultimate Book Search Engine is an ebook search engine that includes 350 open directory sites that relate to ebooks. It was created by the Reddit user u/NotoriousYEG.

Classic Bookshelf

The Classic Bookshelf is a site where you’ll find lots of classic novels, everything from Charles Dickens and Leo Tolstoy.

Literature.org

Literature.org features classic works of English literature, both fiction and non-fiction.

Bartleby

Bartleby is a site that features both fiction and nonfiction books.

Fiction.us

Fiction.us has a ton of books, including fiction, short stories, children's picture books, poetry, books on writing, and plays.

Classic Literature Library

As the name suggests, Classic Literature Library is where you’ll find classic literature works.

Ideology.us

Ideology.us is a site that has ebooks on philosophy, psychology, sociology, politics, and education.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is where you’ll find all of Shakespeare’s work. The site is run by The Tech, the largest and oldest newspaper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Read Books Online

Read Books Online has around 6,000 ebooks, including novels, short stories, poems, essays, plays, and non-fiction.

Public Bookshelf

Public Bookshelf is a site dedicated to romance novels.

Categories of ebooks here include contemporary romance, romantic suspense, historical romance, regency romance, inspirational romance, vampire romance, western romance, general romance, and fantasy and paranormal romance.

The Perseus Project

The Perseus Project is a digital library created by Tufts University with books from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in original languages and English.

Chest of Books

Chest of Books has books on a ton of different subjects, including animals, finance, real estate, science, and travel.

The Literature Network

The Literature Network has books by authors like Anne Bronte, Lewis Carroll, and Lord George Gordon Byron. It also features forums, literature summaries, and quizzes.

The Online Books Page

The Online Books Page is a site by the University of Pennsylvania that houses books in categories like philosophy, history, medicine, science, agriculture, music, anthropology, and more. The site also links to the following:

Banned Books Online: A directory of books that were once banned and links to places where you can read them in full.

A Celebration of Women Writers: A directory that lists online editions of literary works by women as well as resources about women writers.

Prize Winners Online: A directory of prize-winning books.

Many Books

Many Books is “your friendly neighborhood library.” It houses over 50,000 books in genres like romance, mystery, young adult, horror, and non-fiction. You can read books online or download them to your device.

Authorama

Authorama turns public domain books on sites like Google Books and Project Gutenberg into HTML format, making it easier to read them.

Audiobooks

Librivox

Librivox has free audiobooks that you can listen to from any device.

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scorp2510 · 1 year

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#eros morgan #oc #au #fanfic #klance #keith kogane #brother to become #the beginning of a friendship #roommate 513 #how to be an adult #College AU

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heyheycaitalin · 2 years

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May I humbly, respectfully, ask everyone to learn how to grocery shop.

And like I don't mean the basic get a cart, throw shit you want in the cart, put it on the checkout counter, pay, take your bags of shit home.

What I mean is a shocking number of people don't know how to shop within their budget. If you have $50 on your card, you can't throw $200 worth of shit in the cart. You could, but the cashier is going to secretly dread seeing you if this is a repetitive thing.

Ok so here's how to shop.

Figure out how much money you got to work with.

Look at the price tag on the shelf. Round up to the next dollar. This gives wiggle room for tax or if the price is slightly higher.

Lots of people see something like $2.87 and think it's $2. No! That 87 cents ain't going anywhere, and in America there's tax usually. If you're gonna round, round up. Never round down.

Every time you add something in the cart, keep a running total in your head or on a notepad.

If it's something that is charged by weight (grapes, tomatoes, loose apples), round up the price per pound then weigh it. Round up the weight to the next half or quarter pound. Get out the calculator on your phone and do the math. Price x weight. Round up the result to the next dollar.

If you're paying with EBT food but you need not food stuff, figure out a method to keep a separate running total for that. Could be a notepad. Calculator app. Get in a habit of saying the total for both whenever you add something "40 food, 15 not food"

When I started grocery shopping for myself, I just got not-food stuff in a separate trip. I went to Grant's supermarket for food, put it in the car, then went to Dollar General next door for the not-food.

If you're not sure if you'll have enough for everything, you can come back. Get the stuff you definitely want. After you checkout and figure out how much you have left, go back in if you want. Or come back another day.

If you're not sure if you really want something, put it back where you found it. Again, if you really want it later, you can come back.

If you absolutely need to know how much it'll be exactly, you're gonna need your calculator.

Ask an associate how much tax is or Google your state's sales tax. At the store I work at, it'll say at the bottom of the receipt.

Every time you add something, put the exact price from the shelf in your calculator.

When you're done shopping, we gotta figure out the total including tax. EBT and WIC (in my state at least) doesn't add tax. Ignore this step if you're only paying with EBT or WIC. Or if you're a lucky bastard where there's no extra tax.

If the tax is 7%, that equals 0.07

Total x 0.07 = tax, then Total + tax = Final Total

You can also do it as Total x 1.07 = Final Total

There you go that's how you shop. I've shopped like this for nearly 10 years and never had an issue. I wish every customer had a similar method to shopping.

Your total at checkout isn't a random mystery the cashier pulls out of their ass. It's literally the price on the shelf plus tax. If you've got a phone in your pocket or can do basic adding in your head, you can get a ballpark estimate of how much it'll be.

Please, for the love of god and my mental health, stop loading up your cart with $200 worth of stuff if you know you only have $30 in your account.

#yes this is inspired by real events #retail #how to be an adult #how to grocery shop #how to not be a dick #i wish i could scream this from the rooftop

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icybloggss · 1 year

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I’m done with tryna get a regular job you guys I need 2 be an influencer asap

#like ugh #no thanks #influencer #how to be an adult #how to become a millionaire #i need money #gimme some #thank u #tiktok #instagram #fashion girl #model #too pretty for this #pretty little thing #boohoo #asos #misspap

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the-little-ice-cream-cone · 2 years

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What I’ve learned so far by adulting:

No one knows anything…we’re all just making educated guesses and praying they work.

#adulting #we know nothing #how to be an adult #spoiler alert #no one is really an adult #knowledge #wisdom

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ohno-im-an-adult · 2 years

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Hi! You probably don’t know me but I’ve been living on my own with no financial support or family support for almost four years now. I’ve posted about my grocery list and moving apartments, figuring out school and other things. Do you have any questions about living alone and figuring out life and finances?

Ask away!

#advice #life advice #adulting #how to be an adult #adult tips #tips #Help #healingjourney #high school #university #school life #ama #send me asks

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dddemigirl · 2 years

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My parents came back home today from West Virginia and of course the moment they walk in my mom is complaining about something I didn’t do and then a moment later asking about our jobs. No “I missed you” no “how are you?” Just the typical bullshit. Cares more about us being employed than anything else and we’re not even paying rent so I don’t understand. I had to make sure she didn’t fall when she was changing clothes and god, she looks so old and frail. It made me feel so sad. I don’t want to face the fact that my mom is getting older and is super fragile right now. I complained to Wren about how my mom acted and told her that I can’t do this anymore, that I need to get out. There’s actually a really nice house for rent in a bigger college town an hour from us that would be perfect. It’s not too big, the rent is cheap and they allow animals. Also there’s actually stuff to do in that town, that’s where we go when we wanted to go to a mall or something in the past. There’s actually queer people our age there too as it’s a college town. I’m nervous about telling my parents about it. I honestly don’t know how they’d react. What if they say that they need help taking care of my mom and her dogs? We don’t know anything about living on our own and need help. Lots of help. I’m actually very scared about the idea but I know that moving would help my mental health so much.

#alexa rambles #mom mention #toxic parents #parents mention #moving out #moving out for the first time #adulting #how to adult #how to be an adult #growing up #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia

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stvinney · 2 years

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It’s also just annoyingly hard for me to accept that none of my future friendships will be like my college friends were my freshman year. Like how do you make friendships that feel real without spending every day with them

#how to be an adult #Gail

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chaotic-stressy-depressy · 2 years

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Dear "grow up already" people, especially parents

Tell what the hell sleeping with a huge stuffed animal, climbing trees and eating my food cut into little animal-shaped pieces have to do with "being mature" or "grown up"?

#sorry but I'm mad #society expectations #nothing more #parents #expectations #i'm a disappointment #how to be an adult #adultness #growing up #mine.

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lesbianralzarek · 3 months

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"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

#i originally posted this as just a 'hey remember how fuckin bad middle/highschool was? shit was wild' type post but now #there are a bunch of teens in the notes being like 'oh my god are you serious? it gets better? im not stuck in hell forever??'#and im reminded that the only people who told teenage ella 'it gets better' were speakers at mental health assemblies #aka the least relatable people alive who were seemingly born to lie to you #so. uh. yeah im a certified adult who isnt here to lie or sugarcoat the realities of being a teenager #the only thing more certain than the pain is the transcience

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barblaz-arts · 2 months

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Hell's most vanilla couple

#hazbin hotel #kinda nsfw? or well. suggestive #how do i tag this #i still like to stay classy but i am an adult playing with adult characters here so pls bear with me :)#chaggie #charlie morningstar #vaggie #my art

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pivsketch · 5 months

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scheduling lethal company gaming sessions via discord events. made an event banner for one

#do you know how hard it is to get 4 working adults across 4 timezones in one place at one time. its impossible #lethal company

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vapeshopemployee · 4 months

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"be smart but also like do stupid things cause ya know character building" my friend Maggie, 2017

#character building #smart #be amart #how to be an adult #i did not do the thing #i was not smart #i did so many drugs #copious amounts of drugs

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peachesslut · 5 months

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Okay so I turned 20 today and it’s just feels wrong like why is the world so focused on teenagers 😩

#turning 20 #not a teenager anymore 😳#how to be an adult

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metanarrates · 1 year

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it's actually really weird to me that a lot of adults don't seem to remember the worst bits of being a child. were you not horribly aware of when adults were talking down to you as a child? don't you remember how little autonomy you were allowed, even when it came to things that seemed pretty harmless? don't you remember the times when adults would seemingly be assholes to you for no reason? even if you had nice and reasonable parents, didn't you ever have teachers or other adults in power who treated you disrespectfully? didn't it sting no matter how people justified it?

especially when I was a teenager, it seemed obvious to me & to most of my peers when an adult wasn't treating us with respect. you could almost smell it, in certain classrooms. there would be this palpable, shifting undercurrent of teenage dissatisfaction whenever some teachers started talking. and it made a lot of the kids act out! which of course made the teachers try to exert their power, which never worked because nobody respected them, which made them get more draconian, etc.

as a teen, I didn't really get why my peers and I seemingly had a superhuman sense for when an adult was on a power trip. but now I think I get it. kids are systematically denied autonomy, respect, and consistently have the validity of their experiences denied. like, flat-out. they're a vulnerable class of people made even more vulnerable by their lack of societal rights. being disrespected as a kid is so frequent that I would say it's a defining experience for most children. is it any wonder they tend to pick up on when an adult doesn't see them as worth listening to?

so yeah, of course a ton of kids want to be treated "like an adult." to them, that's synonymous with being treated like a human being worth listening to. it's up to you, as an adult, to understand that wish for what it is, and behave accordingly. you don't gotta be a child psychologist. you don't gotta be perfect at it. all you have to do is remember how painful adult disrespect could be when you were a kid & do your best to act with some compassion.

#tbh. as a kid i was mystified by how adults seemed to forget how much they probably hated being treated certain ways at that age #now that im an adult im fairly certain that a lot of them do remember and just wanna punch down!

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