Are free PDF books legal?


Project Gutenberg: Legal Free Books

There are many free books available in PDF format; it is perfectly legal to download and read them. Most books in the Project Gutenberg collection are distributed as public domain under United States copyright law.

Risks of Downloading Books

Never download pirated ebooks. Some ebooks may contain malicious software that can install malware, spyware, and viruses in your computer. Do not distribute ebooks unless the company or author allows it. Distributing copyrighted material is piracy, a punishable offense.

Questionable Sources

La gente chiede anche:, who runs library genesis? Libgen provides access to copyrighted works, such as PDFs of content from Elsevier’s ScienceDirect web-portal. Publishers like Elsevier have accused Library Genesis of internet piracy.

Free Textbook Resources

Where can I read books for free Reddit? Here are the top 15 free textbook resources recommended by Reddit users:

  • Library Genesis
  • Z-Library
  • Project Gutenberg
  • Sci-Hub
  • The Wayback Machine
  • The Assayer
  • PDF Drive
  • Open Library

Scepticism about Scribd

Is scribd safe? it is not legit. They want you to upload 4 documents in order to download a pdf that is available and should be available for free from other websites. They also want you to sign up for a, $8/month membership in order to download public domain documents.

Availability of B-ok.org

What happened to b ok website? B-ok.org is UP and reachable by us.

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