How to read classical literature for free
Large book services not only distribute books for money, but also provide free and legal access to the works of classics. To start reading, just install the right application on your smartphone and find the book you are interested in in its directory. After downloading it to the device, you can read without connecting to the Internet.
At your service are cross-platform applications of services such as Bookmate, “LithRes” (“Read books online”) and MyBook. According to official information, their libraries have 50,000, 32,000 and 27,000 free texts, respectively.
Bookmate and MyBook allow you to read books only within your programs. Against this background, “LitRes” has an advantage. So, you can choose a book in the application “Read books online” and export it to any third-party program for reading. Almost every book on “LitRes” is available in several formats: FB2, ePub, PDF and others.
How to read the rest of the books for free
There are you interested not only in the classics, you can read for free and other texts.
1. In the application “Read for free” on Android
This is another application of the company “LitRes”, but available only on the Android platform. Judging by the description, the program catalog contains more than 50 000 free books, among which there is a modern fiction and non-fiction. In “Read for free” you will find both the texts of domestic authors and the translations of their colleagues from abroad.
Texts are monetized due to impressions of advertising. So be prepared that the annoying ads will distract you from the books. But if you are a master in terms of concentration, then you can give the program a chance. Still, it allows you to read books for free, and, moreover, legally.
However, we note that the assortment of the application lacks many popular texts that you can buy in offline stores or get from the paid catalogs Bookmate, “LitRes” and MyBook.
2. Using the service “Flibusta” on Android and iOS
“Flibusta” is the largest pirate library. Downloading books from its database, you deprive the author of the reward for his hard work.
At the same time, with the help of “Flibusta” you can get texts that can not be bought at all (for example, because no one owns the rights to them in our region at the moment). Basically, these are old books that are not reprinted on paper and are not available in digital sales.
To download the text from the library, you can go to her site, find the desired book through the search form and use the download link in any of the available formats. But the project site is often blocked. To circumvent the restrictions, you will have to use a VPN or a special Telegram bot. It’s enough for Bot to send the title of the book and select the format for uploading the file in the next message.
After downloading the book through a bot or website, it can be opened in any installed reader (for example, in cross-platform eBoox, iBooks for iOS or Moon + Reader for Android) that supports the format you choose.
