Idboox Idboox 16 Free sites to legally download digital books and audio books

To read digitally, you have two options: listen to dematerialized audio books or ebooks to read on readers, tablets, smartphones and computers.

Here is a selection of 16 sites that offer you to read digital books and listen to audio books for free and legally. You will find thousands of books there and in all languages. These are gold mines that should not be deprived. Very often, several reading formats are offered. Choose what you like while respecting copyright! Great discoveries!

8 sites to download digital books for free

Project Gutenberg: site offering titles that have fallen into the public domain in French but also in other languages, it's here

Russian and Slavic Library: an offer of free digital books, fallen into the public domain, specializing in Russian and Slavic literature. It's here

Efélé: has hundreds of ebooks in all areas. It's here

Free ebooks: offers books and magazines to download without moderation it's here

Gallica: the BnF's digital library allows you to unearth treasures dating back several centuries. Everything is free with a wide selection of books in ePub format It's here

Atramenta: offers books in the public domain and books written by authors who choose to share them for free, the opportunity to find nuggets It's here

The Francophone digital library: brings together the heritage collections of eleven libraries. Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, France, Canada, Morocco, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Haiti for the discovery, study and learning of 300 million French speakers. It's here

Edition999: offers since 2006 books in open and free versions, thanks to a participatory community of French-speaking writers. To date, 2700 ebooks, 1050 authors and 32 countries represented. It's here

Also know that Fnac (it's here) and Amazon (it's here) also offer a wide selection of free ebooks.

8 sites to listen to audio books for free

Audio literature

It's more than 8000 audio books to download classified by theme: biography, eroticism, adventure, arts... C 'is here

BibliBoom

Lovers of classic literature, this platform invites you to listen to quality content. This legal offer offers a catalog of 300 audio books. Zola and Dostoyevsky, Jane Austen, take your pick! It's here

Audiocité.net

Listen to a novel, a short story, a poem by a classic or contemporary author. Discover a catalog of audio books to download for free and legally. There are 39 themes to help you make your selection! It's here

LibriVox

It's a multitude of audio books to listen to recorded by readers all over the world. There are over 29,000 audio books in English and over 700 in French. It's here

eLivre Sncf

Let yourself be lulled by Simone, the voice of the SNCF with a selection of very nice books to listen to for free. It's here

Internet Archive

That's over 526,000 audiobooks available in multiple languages. You can filter your search by selecting the languages ​​that interest you. It's here

Project Gutenberg

The bible of copyright-free books offers a lot of audio books, generally classics of literature and mostly in English. It's here

The Valentin Haüy Media Library

This online library offers books adapted for people with reading difficulties due to their disability with more than 40,000 audio books. To access it you need a proof but it is free. It's here

Also know that Fnac (it's here) and Amazon / Audible (it's here) also offer a wide selection of free audio books.

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