Many associate the free download of digital books with piracy, however, this is not always the case. There are, there are, but on the Internet there are many virtual libraries and publishing houses that put a wonderful amount of good literature at the service of readers. without having to pay a burden.
There are those who love the analogue format. And who doesn’t! The paper book has to be one of the most beautiful objects created by man. The contact with the paper, the smell of the ink, the possibility of leaving your fingerprints with marks and notes in the margin…
But times pass and the digital revolution does not stop. And that’s not bad for the reader. Having a electronic reader and be able to download digital books, called e-books, at a lower cost than paper or directly free is a huge advantage. The advice is to enjoy both formats, each with its advantages, without making comparisons.
An e-reader weighs about 200 grams and allows us load an entire library, depending on the gigabytes available. But there are thousands of books that we can carry with us in those small devices like a notebook. And they have functions that allow us to do this underline, take notes, look up words in the dictionary and read without ambient light since they have their own light that does not damage the eyes.
See if the free download will be legal, which, in Argentina, too Secretary of Culture of the Nation promotes it in his Culture at home section, with the hashtag #Yomequedoencasa. He does it too Ministry of Culture of Spainwhich has its own portal for free downloads.
Where to download free books
An e-reader weighs around 200g and has the capacity to download thousands of books. Photo: Shutterstock.1) The nonprofit archive.org, also known as the Internet Archive, is a digital library offering more than 9,000 titles including biographies, novels, art, food, art, music, science, drama, and religion.
2) The Freeditorial library contains fiction, essays, classic literature, poetry, history and everything Shakespeare and Jane Austen.
3) The Library.org.ar site offers educationally oriented books for teachers and students, children, young people and adults, including university and technical education students. You can search by title, author and topics.
4) Project Gutenberg has more than 60,000 books of ancient and modern literature, in ePub format, which can be downloaded or read online.
5) In PDF format, from ebiblioteca.org you can download books on art, literature, self-help, science, philosophy, gastronomy, psychology, esotericism, religion and professions for free.
Cervantes virtual library. A large catalog of authors in Spanish of all time. Photo: Clarin.6) The famous Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library has a large catalog of Spanish authors of all time.
7) The elejandria.com site offers approximately 1,500 books of classic and modern literature in the public domain.
8) Another online library is epublibre.gratis, which has tens of thousands of books that can be downloaded for free. Simply by registering you can access the forums and user advice.
9) books.google.es takes you to Google Books sectiona vast catalog to download many digitized titles for free.
10) From the creators of Wikipedia, wikisource has more than 118,000 titles in Spanish. There are also some in other languages. The search engine filters by author, title, genre, era or country.
The Google Books section offers a large number of complete digitized books for download. Photo: Clarin.11) Amazon sells electronic books and in the Free Books section gives away various titles only for the Kindle e-reader brand, owned by Amazon.
12) Digital Hispánica Library has more than 1,000 classic works in PDF format that you can search here.
13) Search on Google “PDF Books” You will find hundreds of pages that will allow you to download that format for free to read on any electronic device, including mobile phones.
Source: Clarin
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