A reading-room index of the open web

Every free, legal library — on one shelf.

Books, textbooks, research papers, audiobooks and public documents — all of it free, all of it legitimate, gathered from the world's public-domain and open-access libraries.

This is a directory, not a download site. Type what you're after and we'll point you straight to the legal source that holds it.

Public-domain & open-access only — nothing copyrighted is hosted or distributed here