Privacy-friendly alternatives to Open Library
The digital library sites closest to Open Library, with the fewest trackers first: what each homepage loads before you accept cookies. Open Library itself loads 1 tracker.
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Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.
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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
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Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.
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Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
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Client Challenge
distributor of eBooks and other digital media
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Goodreads | Meet your next favorite book
Find and read more books you’ll love, and keep track of the books you want to read. Be part of the world’s largest community of book lovers on Goodreads.
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Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
public domain audiobook project
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Home | LibreTexts
open access educational resource collection
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Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia, created and edited by volunteers around the world and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
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MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
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Wikiquote
free multilingual online collection of quotes
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OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
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Curlie - The Collector of URLs
Curlie directory - Collector of URLs
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peer-reviewed open-access journal
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Wikiversity
online multilingual collaborative project for learning materials
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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Wiktionary
free online multilingual dictionary
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Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
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