17 Websites of Free Ebooks and Audio Books for Language Learners

[hi_lingodeer]

You may not be able to go to a library, but a library can come to you. This is thanks to a wide range of websites that provide free ebooks in many languages online.

German

• Project Gutenberg

gutenberg.org/

Project Gutenberg has published more than 60,000 books about literature online, where you can also download them to read offline. Check out the list of the Top 100 popular books of the month if you don’t know where to start.

• Bibliothek Zeno

zeno.org/

If you are a big fan of German literature, you must not miss the Bibliothek Zeno which includes plenty of German literature masterpieces as free ebooks.

• Vorleser

vorleser.net/

Just as its name implies, Voeleser is an audiobook website. You will find detective novels, poems and children’s literature amongst its selection.

French

• Ebooks libres & gratuits

ebooksgratuits.com/

Ebooks libres & gratuits is totally free! You can search books by title, author and genre.

• Litterature audio

litteratureaudio.com/

Litterature audio provides a good range of listening materials with more than 6,000 audiobooks available, which can be downloaded as MP3 audio files.

• Gallica

gallica.bnf.fr/

Gallica is the digital branch of the French National Library (BnF). It provides access to many types of documents: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, plus manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, as well as maps and plans. It is a good way to immerse yourself in the French language and culture.

Spanish

• Casa del Libro

casadellibro.com/

Casa del Libro translates as the home of books and is the digital branch of the famous chain bookstore in Spain.

• 24symbols

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24symbols.com/

24 Symbols is one of the most popular ebook websites in Spain. The app is beautiful, making sure you can enjoy reading ebooks on your computer, tablet or smartphone. They also have a recommended book list and a subscription option.

• Rakuten kobo

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kobo.com/

Rakuten kobo has a wide range of audiobooks. You can use it both on your laptop and smartphone. As well as the usual way of searching a book by title and author, you can also search for it by ISBN.

Japanese

• TADOKU

tadoku.org/

Tadoku has plenty of books for every level. At the lower levels, the books include many pictures, so you don’t have to constantly refer to a dictionary. You can download PDF ebooks or MP3 audiobooks. 無料の読みもの means to read for free, where the books are both beginner-friendly and high quality.

• Aozora Bunko (青空文库)

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aozora.gr.jp/

Azora is a digital library. Although the interface may be old-fashioned, the library contains many resources. There are more than 10,000 books in literature alone! Beginners can start with children’s literature, and you can even choose to read the books in their original vertical Japanese print layout.

Korean

• KYOBO Ebook

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digital.kyobobook.co.kr/

From comics to academic thesis, you can buy or rent ebooks from Kyobo, where there are also many free ebooks available.

• Naver Ebook

series.naver.com/ebook/freeList.nhn

Naver is a famous dictionary publisher for Korean language learners, but did you know that Naver also provides free ebooks? It has a wide and varied selection of books with more than 1,500 available for free. However, it is not all that friendly for beginners.

Chinese

• Haodoo（好读）

Haodoo.net

Haodoo is a traditional Chinese website which provides novels as ebooks and audiobooks in a wide range of genres, including Kong fu novels.

• Jiumodiary（鸠摩搜索）

http://Jiumodiary.com

Jiumodiary is a powerful search engine where you can find free ebooks, audiobooks and printed books, as long as they are available on the internet, by searching for the book’s title.

Portuguese

• LELIVROS

lelivros.love/

You will find popular novels such as A Song of Ice and Fire in Portuguese available for download at Lelivros. The site has many free ebooks for children, teenagers and beginner language learners.

• Amazon

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amazon.com.br/

Are you looking for some free Portuguese ebooks to read? All you need is the Kindle app on your computer, smartphone or tablet. Amazon has made over 50,000 ebooks free on their website. Enjoy reading from a wide selection from classic novels to books about food, travel, health and business for free. Many can also be read aloud to you by the Kindle app.

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For someone needs English Ebooks

Internet Archive

archive.org/

International Children’s Digital Library

en.childrenslibrary.org/

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[Anonymous]

The irony that project Gutenberg is German but as a German you can‘t access it because Germany is blocking it.

[Anonymous]

Librivox.org had many public domain books in many many languages.

[Anonymous]

b-ok.org has every book in existence for free. But be warned, it’s not legal.

[ec336]

libgen.is is a good resource, as well.

[Anonymous]

Thank you all for taking the time in putting the links, someone somewhere always benefits from such posts.

[adakin_1]

Thank you soo much!!

[HelioA]

this website exists for Hebrew!

[JacobusVanthoff]

For italian there is this website with free ebook and audio book, although some are old text or translations: Liber Liber – Libri, audiolibri e musica con licenze libere

[ProtectKutyas]

Here is the ‘project Gutenberg’ of Hungarian books if it’s any use to anyone.

[Aspernaut_Space]

For Dutch you can read Moord met een Hoger Doel by Blake Pierce

[Jasmindesi16]

Thank you so much for this, these links are great.

[Anonymous]

i would thank you for english sites

[simpleauthority]

Cool! Happen to know any for Tagalog?

[digitor]

i hope nobody here finds out how to access the #ebooks channel on irchighway using mirc. Those pesky ebook pirates are the scourge of the world I tell you.

[foxyfoxyfoxyfoxyfox]

Openlibrary.org has books in English and other languages.

[mirmarbar]

Goethe-Institut’s digital library has quite good digital collection in German

[bilinual]

Bilinual.com book library has books with word-by-word translation hints! Several books come with audio as well. You can add new books here from Project Gutenberg for free.

[SwordofDamocles_1]

By US law, it’s legal to access piracy sites as long as you don’t upload anything. Downloading is ok.

[sierrajp1999]

That is actually a lie. It doesn’t have every single book. There have been probably 4 books that were not found. Thankfully they weren’t that important to read.