Free eBook websites

Christian Classics Ethereal Library: A digital library of hundreds of classic Christian books, which are freely accessible. Click here for access

Catholic eBook Project: The Catholic Ebooks Project is a public service blog that provides a library of links to Catholic Christian ebooks and e-texts that are legal, free, and faithful: that is, ebooks and e-texts that may be read online or downloaded LEGALLY (not pirated) and for FREE, and are FAITHFUL to the truths revealed by God to His Catholic Church. Click here for access

Google Books: Search a global index of books. Find millions of books you can preview or read for free. Click here for access

Hathi Trust: This site is a partnership of academic and research institutions that indexes millions of books, with full-text if they are out of copyright. Click here for access

Internet Archive: This site is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies & music, as well as 456 billion archived web pages. Click here for access

Project Gutenberg: The first-ever site to digitize and offer texts online. Still going strong with 47,000 + texts and other free material. Click here for access

Please note that all of the collections listed below contain many Catholic books, including numerous liturgical books of the Church dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Biblioteca Digital Hispanica (Spanish National Library): This is the homepage for the online digitized collection of the Spanish National Library in Madrid. This collection comprises many earlier printed works (fifteenth century to the nineteenth century), largely in Spanish or Latin, plus some manuscripts dating as far back as the thirteenth century.  All of the titles listed are freely accessible online and can be downloaded and printed. Click here for access


Gateway Bayern (Bavarian State Library): This portal, an online union catalog of all the holdings in the libraries of Bavaria (southern Germany), provides free access to the complete digitized texts of many works, largely in Latin or German,  from the Rare Books Collection of the Bavarian State Library. These items can be identified both by the yellow rectangle symbol to the left of the title and by the “Volltext” tag below the title; clicking the “Volltext” tag opens the digitized file.  Navigation buttons are provided above the text to leaf through the book displayed; pages can be downloaded in PDF format and printed. Click here for access 

Biblioteca National De Portugal (Portugal National Library): This is the homepage for the online digitized collection of the Portuguese National Library in Lisbon. This collection comprises many earlier printed works (fifteenth century to the nineteenth century), largely in Portuguese or Latin, plus some manuscripts.  All of the titles listed are freely accessible online and can be downloaded and printed. Click here for access