Free book catalogs
Free, legal shelves Ledgable can browse and download from — the classics, open books and volunteer libraries.
A catalog is a library’s shelf you can search and download from inside Ledgable. Open Book catalog (Settings › Books), tap 📚 Free catalogs for the ones marked ★, or paste an address below.
Classics and the public domain
- ★ Project Gutenberg — over 70,000 free ebooks, mostly older classics.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks.opds/ - Wikisource — texts volunteers have transcribed, ready as ebooks (English).
https://ws-export.wmcloud.org/opds/en/Ready_for_export.xml - Standard Ebooks — beautifully made public-domain editions. Its catalog is for its patrons; anyone can download the books from standardebooks.org and add them as files.
Open books
- ★ Unglue.it — books their authors made free to read and share.
https://unglue.it/api/opds/ - Internet Archive — a huge collection; some books need a free archive.org account to borrow. It can be slow to answer.
https://bookserver.archive.org/catalog/
Tips
- Your public library may have a catalog too — ask for its OPDS address.
- Books you download land on your Bookshelf and sync like any other book.
- Know a good free catalog? Write to us.