Read online for free, plus our own curated UK-checked titles.
Project Gutenberg
Huge collection of classic/public-domain ebooks.
Standard Ebooks
Beautifully formatted editions of classic books.
LibriVox
Free public-domain audiobooks, read by volunteers.
Open Library
Book discovery, plus some titles available to read/borrow online.
OpenStax
Free textbooks, particularly useful for science, maths, computing and sixth form.
Copyright note: Project Gutenberg and Standard Ebooks assess public-domain status under United States copyright law, not UK law — both state this explicitly on their own sites. A title can be public domain in the US while still under copyright in the UK. For that reason, we link pupils directly to these services rather than copying or re-hosting their books ourselves, unless UK copyright status has been separately checked for a specific title.
School Digital Library
Browse every UK copyright-checked title we host, across all sections.